Gramophone Magazine’s 2020 Awards Issue reviews the Latvian Radio Choir’s recording of the Komitas Divine Liturgy:
“The importance in Armenian culture of Komitas, priest-monk, composer, arranger, transcriber, conductor, can hardly be overestimated. … his transcriptions of western Armenian folk music effectively saved the tradition from extinction. … The Divine Liturgy was first published in 1933 and set for male voices. The present recording is an arrangement for mixed choir by the outstanding composer Vache Sharafyan (b1966), and… [it] results in moments of great beauty, and it is the perfect vehicle for the sound of the Latvian Radio Choir… The final impression of this Armenian-Latvian collaboration is overwhelmingly positive. It is a new vision of Komitas’s work, and will certainly bring it to new audiences. The choir’s performance, under Sigvards Klava’s sure direction, is outstanding…”
—Ivan Moody, Gramophone