Hasmik Harutyunyan with the Shoghaken Ensemble

Singer Hasmik Harutyunyan is renowned for her mellifluous renditions of the Armenian lullaby, one of the oldest and richest genres in Armenian music. Here she sings acapella and accompanied by instrumentalists from Armenia's Shoghaken Ensemble. Their quiet, haunting interpretations of lullabies from historical villages across the Armenian plateau offer a mesmerizing glimpse at a lost world. Harutyunyan consciously preserves the differences in regional dialect, style and musical modes that make the Armenian lullaby such a rich genre.