Classique
Contenu
Perpétuel
Beyrouth-Jérusalem
Arminia
Description :
Perpétuel, Beyrouth-Jérusalem and Arminia are collected in the present edition for violin solo. Bechara El-Khoury, the Franco-Lebanese composer and poet was born in Beirut on March 18, 1957. His artistic gifts were revealed very early. Hecompleted his musical training in Lebanon with Hagop Arslanian and groomed himself into becoming an accomplished composer, pianist, conductor, chorus-master and poet. He was celebrated as a child prodigy, with some hundred musical compositionswritten between 1969 -- when he was only twelve -- and 1978. “His compositions are dominated by symphonic and concertante writings, his works being the expression of humanism based on an underlyingChristian spirituality. ” (Gérald Hugon)