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From Apocryphonia's 'GinasterAmirov' Concert, October 1st, 2023.

Alexander Cappellazzo - Tenor
Narmina Afandiyeva - Piano

Amirov's opera Sevil is a favourite of mine, like many of Amirov's works. When I first heard Rashid Behbudov sing Balash's famous aria, I was moved and wanted to learn it myself. Eventually I found the score and learned the aria.

Apocyrphonia's GinasterAmirov concert is a double bill of the works of the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera and Azerbaijani composer Fikret Amirov. It included Ginastera's 'Las Horas de una Estancia' & 'Piano Sonata 1', and excerpts from Amirov's 'Sevil' & the Canadian concert premiere of the 'Romantic Sonata'. Both composers were monumental in their synthesis of traditional classical compositional styles and national musical traditions and idioms, and share some interesting compositional similarities despite never meeting in person. The concert was produced with the support of the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Sevil (1953)
Composer: Fikret Amirov
Libretto: Jafar Jabbarly

Special thanks to Sahar Esmaeilzadeh and Narmina Afandiyeva for Azeri diction coaching and musical coaching.

Video/Audio - Ryan Harper

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