Bach & More – Christmas Concert | Soirée mit Nareh (Live in Vienna)

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Nareh Arghamanyan, piano, live in Vienna (Dec 15, 2025)

A Christmas Concert in three parts:
I. Bach
II. Childhood memories
III. Vienna Ball Season

Music is not a fixed code but a living process to be shaped. Every gesture, phrase, and breath becomes part of a shared creation that transcends notation and tradition. In performance, the score is not a command but a map: an invitation to orient, imagine, and embody sound in dialogue with history, body, and audience.

From one musician to another (Josu De Solaun):
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I. Bach
00:00-05:34 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) / Wilhelm Niemann (1874–1955)
"Sinfonia" from the Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
Composed in Leipzig in 1734.
The character of the Sinfonia from the second cantata stands in marked contrast to the triumphant choruses of the rest of the cycle: a pastoral Siciliano in G major, a shepherd’s landscape, full of expectation.

05:35-10:07 Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805–1847)
Excerpts From the Cycle "Das Jahr "(The Year): No. 12, "December" with quotations from Bach BWV 700&614
The chorale quotation "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her" (“From Heaven Above”) appears like a familiar star in the winter darkness, and the postlude on "Das alte Jahr vergangen ist" (“The Old Year Has Passed”) also draws on a chorale prelude by J. S. Bach.

10:09-13:47 Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Christmas Tree, S. 186: No. 4 “Adeste Fideles“

13:51-20:06 J. S. Bach (1685–1750) / Harold Bauer (1873–1951)
"Die Seele ruht in Jesu Händen" – Aria from Cantata BWV 127
Harold Bauer, a pupil of Jan Paderewski, was famous as a pianist for his warm, singing tone. The piano arrangement heard here is his.

20:07-23:10 Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) / Nareh Arghamanyan
"Winter" from The Four Seasons, Op. 8 – 1st movement (Allegro non molto)
Vivaldi, known as "Il Prete Rosso" because of his red hair, was a clergyman and composer. It is said that he would sometimes interrupt the celebration of Mass, rush from the altar to the sacristy, to write down a musical idea that had occurred to him during the liturgy.

II. Childhood memories
P. I. Tschaikowsky (1840–1893) / Mikhail Pletnev (*1957)
Excerpts from The Nutcracker Suite
23:13-25:01 March
25:02-26:57 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
26:58-31:59 Pas de Deux
Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker is based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (1816).

32:02-35:45 Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978) / Nareh Arghamanyan
The "Waltz" from the incidental music to "Masquerade" was composed in 1941 for a drama by Mikhail Lermontov, a dark social satire set in a world of deception, passion, and destructive jealousy.

35:46-43:06 Frank Churchill (1901–1942) / Earl Wild (1915–2010)
Reminiscences of Disney’s Snow White
Walt Disney’s "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) was the first full-length animated feature film in cinema history: a cultural turning point in which music, image, and narrative merged into a new entity.
The American pianist and composer Earl Wild created a brilliant piano fantasy on these melodies.

III.Vienna Ball Season
43:26-49:23 Johann Strauß II (1825–1899) / Moriz Rosenthal (1862–1946)
Carnaval de Vienne (Humoreske)
The pianist Moriz Rosenthal, a student of Franz Liszt, belonged to a generation of pianists for whom interpretation, improvisation, and composition were inseparable. His concert paraphrase on Strauss’s music transports the waltz from the ballroom to the concert stage.
Carnaval de Vienne, composed around 1900, is not an arrangement but an independent composition that takes motifs from Strauss’s waltz world, sharpens them, distorts them, and virtuously recombines them.
Rosenthal unites virtuosic technique with musical wit. Waltz fragments appear like masks at a carnival: they emerge, vanish, overlap, are ironically fractured or brilliantly exalted. Beneath the glitter lies a deep familiarity with Viennese tradition, and, in a way, a farewell to it, written on the threshold of the 20th century.

Encores:
51:25-56:43 Nareh Arghamanyan: Hommage à Komitas
57:57-1:00:59 Francisco Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra (arr.: N. Arghamanyan)

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🎬 Video: Philipp Gruy

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