Hovik Sardaryan “Fuming flames“ for viola and piano

viola - Mary Dolmazyan piano - Artur Avanesov This work is dedicated to Armenian ashik (folk singer, trubadur) Sayat Nova. Ashik is a singer who always sings about love, about burning love which suffered and burnt him. That’s why the work is called “Fuming Flames“. Piano pizzicatos, closed muted, overpressed plays of viola and quarter tones which are used in this piece, they come from ashik music’s sounding. The viola was regarded as qamancha, and the piano was regarded as saz, tar and other string an