BBC Radio 4 - Journey to Armenia: Komitas - The Saddest Music in the World - click before Thursday‏

BBC Radio 4
Journey to Armenia: Komitas - The Saddest Music in the World

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lk2z9/Journey_to_Armenia_Komitas_The_Saddest_Music_in_the_World/ Listen (Duration: 30 minutes)Availability: to end of 22 July 2009 go to 1’37”Last broadcast today, 11:30 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only).British writer Toby Litt travels to Armenia in search of Komitas, an orphan whose musical talent turned him into the voice
of his country. Six decades after his death in 1935, his music and the vast body of folk songs that he collected guarantees
him a unique place in Armenian culture, remembered and revered as much by cow herdsmen as by musicians.
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