"Soorp Soorp", an Armenian Hymn by Isabel Beyrakdarian and the Tatev Choir (4.2004)

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Isabel Bayrakdarian: http://www.bayrakdarian.com/ Global Trades: http://www.globaltrades.ca/music.html Performed by Isabel Beyrakdarian and the Tatev Choir in 2004, from "A LONG JOURNEY HOME", a documentary film. produced by Stormy Nights Productions, follows Isabel Bayrakdarian on an emotional pilgrimage and her first visit to her spiritual homeland. With the participation of pianist Serouj Kradjian, Komitas String Quartet, and Yerevan Chamber Choir among others, she performs selections from the sacred and secular music of Armenia in churches and ruins that are the most ancient in the world. Viewers are given the opportunity to visit a part of the world whose mystical landscape provides a haunting backdrop for the music. More information: http://www.bayrakdarian.com http://www.komitas.am/eng/index_eng.php ******** Isabel Bayrakdarian (official bio) Isabel Bayrakdarian burst onto the international opera scene after winning first prize in the 2000 Operalia competition founded by Plácido Domingo. Since then she has performed in many of the world's major opera houses and concert halls. She is admired as much for her stunning stage presence as for her exceptional musicality, and she has followed a unique career path completely her own. In the 2008-2009 season Ms. Bayrakdarian tours with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra conducted by Anne Manson performing the works of Armenian composer Gomidas Vartabed. The Remembrance Concert Tour , dedicated to victims of all genocide, will be performed with San Francisco Performances, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the Vancouver Symphony, at Roy Thomson Hall, with the Boston Celebrity Series, and in a return to Carnegie Halls Zankel Hall. Operatic engagements include debuts at the Teatro del Liceu in the title role of Lincoronazione di Poppea and with Opéra Français de New York performing the title role of Kurt Weills Marie Galante, as well as a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Zerlina in Don Giovanni. Ms. Bayrakdarian also appears in recital with her husband, pianist Serouj Kradjian, in Duluth, Minnesota, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Calgary, Alberta. Highlights of Ms. Bayrakdarians recent seasons have included performances as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Metropolitan Opera, Zerlina at the Salzburg Festivals celebration of Mozarts birthday, debuting the role of Mélisande in Pélleas et Mélisande at the Canadian Opera Company, singing title role in The Cunning Little Vixen at the Saito Kinen Festival under the baton of Seiji Ozawa, Le nozze di Figaro at Covent Garden and the Houston Grand Opera and her role debut as Blanche in Robert Carsens production of Poulencs Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She also participated in the world-premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Sheers one-act opera To Hell and Back with Broadway legend Patti LuPone and San Franciscos Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Isabel Bayrakdarian sings on the Grammy® award-winning soundtrack of the blockbuster film The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers, and her voice can also be heard in the multiple award-winning Canadian film Ararat. Ms. Bayrakdarian has been honored with four Juno awards, Canadas highest recording prize, most recently for her CD Mozart arie & duetti with fellow Canadians Russell Braun and Michael Schade. She is the subject of a CBC-TV film entitled A Long Journey Home that documents her first trip to Armenia; on another trip there recently she recorded a disc of songs by the countrys national composer, Gomidas Vartabed (1869-1935), with her husband and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra which is available on the Nonesuch label. Expanding her vast discography, Ms. Bayrkdarian was a guest soloist with the Canadian band Delerium on their 2007 Grammy® nominated dance remix Angelicus. Ms. Bayrakdarian has received many grants and other awards in addition to the First Prize in the Operalia: four Juno awards, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, the 2005 Virginia Parker Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Leonie Rysanek Award from the George London Foundation, and a Metropolitan Opera National Council Award in 1997. Born in Lebanon of proud Armenian heritage and now a citizen of Canada, Ms. Bayrakdarian moved with her family to Toronto as a teenager. Her earliest singing experience was at church, which remains along with her family the central focus of her life. She holds an honors degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Oh my God so beautiful god bless Armenia let us never forget what happend back then! God bless u and wow your voice is a beautiful melody . i wish that one day i will practice and have a voice like this to be able to sing . I am deeply moved also with your voice :) amen thx my friend this song made my soul cry. This nation ahs suffered a lot from its muslim neighbours ! even your enemies appreciate you with such chants. This singing can calm down anyone who hates you. I believe the power of God is in this voice. Best regards from Romania Amazing, what a voice! This old blood still feels the melody . Thank you. 0:17 Y U NO STFU God bless armenia, thank god Im armenian yes i Do Jan Henrik . I grew up in Australia from Small age but i can speak Armenian very well )))) Nane jan mersi, do you understand the Armenian language?) You more my brother much more am proud of you ))))) I JUST WILL SAY, YOU ARE AN ARMENIAN HEART) Always my Brother I don't like our names been put down due to selfish people . We as Armenians have always had a wonderful grace about us and very Genuin looks . If some of them want to call ruin their names then they are not HAY they should look back as to what our women and children went through. Some do not even know about our history we died for our faith for our Honor Shame on them AMOT of course my sister, whould be better that our sisters were like in the past), its very good that our Armenia still has Armenian patriotic girls) whould be better that all the girls were like you) but lamentably its not so, in the europe and america there are very much armenians that brake our honor, and we cant do nothink to stop them, so exactly for that i am very happy that still we have armenians like you, that can raise our honor always) im trying to set project a good name for our Armenian Girls My dear Brother . Our Girls should always keep their self respect and HONOR always . Ways of Dressing our culture these should be always honored this is what we live for what we breath for and God bless our Brave Armenian Brothers Much respect to you my dear Brother your right Nane jan i like your form of thinking, id like that the Armenian girls were like you) God bless you Armenian Princess) We are better than everyone else we have proven this in time our Pride and Faith will be forever strong God bless your Dedication Henrik )))))) ARMENIANS LOVE THE PEAS, BUT IF THE ENEMY DONT LET US LIVE WITH PEAS, SO WE WILL DELETE THEM FROM OUR LANDS, LIKE WE DID WITH OURS OTHER ANCIENT ENEMIES, WE ARE STILL ALIVE, BECOUSE WE ARE ARMENIANS, AND WE WILL FIGHT ALWAYS FOR THE PEAS OF OUR PEOPLE! LONG LIVE THE GREAT LAND OF THE GOD HAYA AND HIS SON HAYK NAHAPET! i know it Nane jan, God always will be with us, soon our enemies will know who are the Armenians :) AMEN God will save us he will hear our prayers Henrik . AMEN Have a Merry Armenian Christmas, God bless you and preserved that Holy Land, the sacred Armenian Land. Beautiful!!!!! There's a spirit in music. It's so obvious in this...It just speaks of peace. Thanks for uploading this. I've listened to it again and again. It's perfect for Christmas. Lusien Zakarina has powerful voice, but to tell the truth I don't like Soorp, Soorp sung by her, this soprano is singing much better... and at last the most important thing is to be BLEESED!!!:) No one sings these songs, specially the spirituals, better than LUSINE ZAKARIAN !!!!!! Hear those, then you will see what I mean. This soprano thinks she created the armenian music....she better show a bit modesty... One of my favorite hymns and so beautifully sung! Thank you!