Khachaturian: A Musician and His Fatherland
VAI DVD 4298, $34.95

A film about one composer's life and music during the great Soviet experiment

Winner - Best Documentary Award at the Hollywood Film Festival in Los Angeles

Peter Rosen’s latest work is a grand tribute to the great Armenian composer in his centennial year and a daring, yet moving study of his complex life under Stalin’s tyranny. The film is about the life of a composer creating in the darkness of a tragic era. Like most Soviet citizens, Khachaturian hid a complex private life behind a mask of Communist loyalty.

Musical segments include excerpts from Spartacus and Gayne ballets, the Violin Concerto and as a DVD bonus Mstislav Rostropovich in a complete performance of the Concerto- Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra .

133 min. B&W and Color.

The KUHN FOUNDATION presents a PETER ROSEN PRODUCTION

Narrated by Eric Bogosian

Music played by the Armenian Philharmonic conducted by Loris Tjeknavorian

Bonuses:

- Khachaturian: Concerto- Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra

Mstislav Rostropovich, cello/ State Orchestra of the USSR/ Aram Khachaturian

- Making "Khachaturian" (behind the scenes with the filmmakers)

- Piano Concerto - Third Movement (music video)

Dora Serviarian-Kuhn, piano;Armenian Philharmonic/ Loris Tjeknavorian

Playable in all regions.