ARSHAK IKILIKIAN
Superpulse
Fritz Berthelsen, clarinet
Nairy Grigorian, piano
Birgitte Bærentzen Pihl, violin
Thomas Sandberg, percussion

Arshak Ikilikian, composer

Armenian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gevork Muradian, conductor

About
Arshak Ikilikian was born in Armenia in 1948, but has lived in Denmark since 1992. He has composed more than 250 works, including a ballet, two symphonies, seven symphonic novellas, a piano concerto, chamber music, choral works and computer music. Over the years his musical language has developed from an inter-war modernist style influenced by Stravinsky and Bartók to a freer, poetic idiom where the computer plays an important role.

Credits
Recorded at the Armenian Radio Concert Hall, Yerevan, in 1987 (The Courageous Nazar and Piano Concerto) and at DIEM, Århus, on 2 November (Success) and 16-17 December 1999
Sound engineers: Leinad Kazarian (The Courageous Nazar and Piano Concerto) and Claus Pedersen

Cover picture: Arshak Ikilikian: "Monster" (2001)