The Guardian reviews the Latvian Radio Choir’s recording of Komitas: Divine Liturgy:
“music by the Armenian composer-priest known as Komitas (1869-1935) is surely unknown to most of us. A pioneer ethnomusicologist, he incorporated Armenian church and folk traditions into his own work, and completed his Divine Liturgy in 1915 just before his arrest as part of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey. The aim of Komitas: Divine Liturgy (Delos), sung by the Latvian Radio Choir, conducted by Sigvards Kļava, is to make this haunting, radiant music performable in concert, as well as within ritual.”
—Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian
