• Intense and complex compositions but highly melodious and accessible also, – tied together by Kim Kashkashian’s outstanding musical personality, sensitivity and tone
• Themes of nostalgia, feelings of separation and suffering due to the political situations in Israel and Armenia form the common thread of all pieces recorded here. Kashkashian’s lyrical, haunting viola pervades the atmosphere
• Betty Olivero’s Neharót is one of these unforgettable pieces with the potential to stick in the listener’s minds and to become a radio hit – a Gorecki 3 for the 21st Century?

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"The album’s centerpiece, Three Arias (Sung Out the Window Facing Mount Ararat), is the violist’s latest collaboration with Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian. Recorded in Boston’s warm Jordan Hall after last year’s premiere, the andante opening is as alert with unease as was Mansurian’s first concerto for Kashkashian, released on the composer’s Grammy-nominated Monodia. Deftly transforming over spare musical terrain, Three Arias then dances with emotive directness, each aria ending with a humble, fresh glimpse of sublimity." -- Alan Lockwood, Time Out New York

" Kashkashian’s ability to wordlessly evoke intense yearning, even supplication, elevates Neharót as one of the year’s finest albums and another triumph for ECM." -- Doyle Armbrust, Time Out Chicago