Lullaby, din baletul Gayaneh

In Gayaneh, a ballet composed in the 1930’s, Aram Khachaturian portrays the story of the heroine in the title: a woman fighting mightily between romantic love on one hand and nationalistic zeal on the other. At the climax of the ballet, the plot comes to a halt, and Gayaneh, deploring her husband's cruelty and abusive behavior, begins to sing her child to sleep with a,haunting lullaby of mysterious beauty.,Transcribing and publishing it for the first time ever for viola and piano facilitates the inclusion of this musical gem into the viola-piano duo repertoire.