The recording The Destiny of Armenia Is Its Cross, by the Bechtler Ensemble, constitutes a significant contribution to the dissemination of Armenian sound heritage, while at the same time demonstrating the vitality of a tradition that has been able to project itself beyond its original context. The choice to open the program with popular melodies collected by Komitas (1869–1935) is, in itself, a programmatic gesture. Komitas, a cleric and musicologist, was the great systemati

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