Ирина Манукян//
Irina Manukian
Gradually, there will appear here
excerpts from R. A. Ashinyants' book “Sweet Burden” dedicated to Irina Manoukian, sheet music, articles about the composer. Come back again!
From the chapter
about studying
at the Moscow Conservatory
It was time to take the ensemble class exam. It was not possible to persuade any of the students of the string department to play these easy pieces, as it had happened in previous years - everyone had an exam session, everyone was already ‘involved’ in ensembles by earlier arrangement. Time was inexorably approaching the fateful date, and there was no one to play. I don't know, perhaps Irina saw the solution in a dream. On the eve of the exam, on a Sunday morning.
Excerpt from an article by M. Astakhova‘I. Manoukian, Concerto amoroso: to the Problem of Formation’
The Concerto amoroso continued the lyrical and psychological themes of the Third Symphony. But unlike the symphony, in the concerto the composer gives a new solution to the Romantic theme of man's encounters with the outside world. The Third Symphony is devoted to the theme of overcoming the tragic; the concerto amoroso reveals the idea of a calm and wise reconciliation with dramatic collisions.