Khachaturian's "Lullaby" arranged for Sitar and Piano

My Armenian mother would often choose Khachaturian’s “Lullaby” for a bedtime piece after tucking me and my brother into bed. We grew up in a small village in Nepal, and it was magical to listen to the piano in the living room mingling with the rhythm of crickets and cicadas in the forest outside. A few years ago my mother was practicing the piano indoors while I practiced a North Indian classical rāg outside, while visiting our relatives in the Adirondack mountains of New York. When she began to play the “Lullaby” I had the sudden urge to go in and join her. This recording is the result of that experiment. To experience her playing the original piano arrangement by Oscar Levant, you can visit my mother’s own youtube site here: https://bit.ly/3qsSpw1