Vem Radio: Analyses & News from Armenia, Christianity & Culture, Classical & Sacred Music: Vem Radio

Vem records Armenian sacred music (sharakans) at Vem Recordings Studio, with the purpose of creating a comprehensive compilation of Armenian spiritual music. The recordings are done with the best choirs and soloists. In 2005, Vem released “The Way” album of Armenian sharakans, performed by the acclaimed Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia, and “De Profundis”, with soloists Anahit Papayan, Lusine Ghazarian and the Hover Chamber Choir. In 2007, Vem Recordings published the album of the renowned Komitas State Quartet, including masterpieces by the leading contemporary Armenian composers.

Vem has recorded a high quality CD of Armenian sharakans performed by the legendary Hilliard Ensemble in Saghmosavank, an historic Armenian 12th Century Monastery. Vem was instrumental in bringing this world renowned ensemble of the UK to Armenia in 2003.

Komitas Secular and Sacred Songs

In 2009, in commemoration of Komitas’s 140th anniversary of birth, the Armenian Chamber Choir with Robert Mlkeyan as its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor...

Komitas: Armenian Divine Liturgy

The Holy Patarag (Divine Liturgy), arranged by Komitas Vardapet, is one of the masterpieces of the Armenian sacred music. The Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia with Sona Hovhannisyan as as Artistic...

Khachaturian Trio

Arno Babadjanyan and Dmitry Shostakovich, Arshile Gorky and Marc Chagall, Grigor Narekatsi and Nikolay Gumilyev… an impressive crossroad of arts opens before our view, where music comes first (design of the album by Alexander Davidyan...

Komitas: Folk Songs

With his arrangements of folk songs, Komitas revealed the powerful past and the vital future of the Armenian professional music. One of the true followers of the world of Komitas is the Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia...

The Way

In 2005, Vem Recordings released its premier CD, “The Way”. Traditional arrangements of Armenian spiritual chants by the venerated composer and ethnomusicologist...

De Profundis

Released in 2005, this is the second album of sharakans produced by Vem Recordings. The album features various genres of Armenian sacred music. The choral parts...

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