"Lied und Gebilde"

Mansuryan's collaboration of more than 10 years with the violinist Kim Kashkashian and her duo partner Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) resulted in the composition of the works published here. In them, he used the unusual combination of viola and percussion to create musical spaces in which Armenian traditions and Western European modernism meet – in a stylistically exciting manner, from brittle austerity to sweeping melody and sound mysticism.