Simonyan plays Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto

Watch Mikhail Simonyan play the last movement of Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto recorded for “Two souls“. This unusual coupling of the violin concertos by Aram Khachaturian and Samuel Barber is tailor-made for Mikhail Simonyan’s Deutsche Grammophon debut. One soul is Armenian, the other American. Born in Novosibirsk, Simonyan has mixed Russian and Armenian parentage, but spent his formative years in the US. When he was 13, he toured the US as s