Recordings
While maintaining a busy concert and teaching schedule, Iakovos Kolanian has realeased three distinctive albums over the past three years:
Bohemio - Guitar Masterworks of Agustin Barrios
An album dedicated to the guitar masterworks of celebrated South American composer Agustin Barrios. Although rooted in large part in the popular idiom, Barrios's compositions come adorned in all the harmonic and contra-puntal sophistication of classical music. Indeed, it is this very combination of these two worlds, popular and classical, that makes his music so appealing to a varied group of listeners. Given his mastery of both idioms and his technical prowess already on display in his earlier recordings, Kolanian offers a poetic, well thought-out and highly individualized rendition of these masterpieces.
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Shoror - Armenian Folk Music for Guitar
Based on his own meticulous transcriptions, Kolanian presents with this album a fascinating meditation on some choice Armenian folk tunes that is the fruit of many years of study, reflection and refinement. Owing to an almost instinctive feel for this music, he bestows each individual piece with a unique touch that has been shaped by his solid grounding in the traditions of the Spanish guitar, his devotion to the music of J. S. Bach and, of course, his natural affinity for Komitas.
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Lute Suites - Johann Sebastian Bach
A lifetime student of the great composer, Kolanian committed the four of Bach's Lute Suites to the record after nurturing them to maturity inside him for a long time. As he explains: "The magnitude of Bach's music urged me to work explicitly with the four Suites for the Lute and look at them as if they comprised a single composition. As the time went by and as these compositions were maturing inside me, I was getting the feeling of going deeper into the essence of the greatness of his work."