https://yksclibrary.am/dlibra/publication/149899/edition/136329/content
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTtXYVyebM
Hayk Melikyan https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2014/feb14/babajanian_piano_gp674.htm
The 1978 Elegy is “cocktail bar” sentimental with invention familiar from the middle movement of any of the Khachaturian concertos.
Most of the programme, in fact, is given over to small, largely descriptive pieces, such as Babajanian’s Elegy which represents his solo piano tribute to his late teacher, Khachaturian https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2022/Jun/Armenia-gems-CDR90000209.htm
Again in totally different mood is Arno Babajanyan’s Elegy which follows. A simple and very tonal melody is treated in romantic fashion to a succession of variations in pianistic colour and harmony. https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev//2014/Dec14/Gabrielyan_piano_ODRCD311.htm
Babajanyan’s Elegy is so utterly different; the calm after the Shostakovich storm. It was written as a tribute to the memory of Aram Khachaturian, the best known of all Armenian composers, shortly after his death on 1 May 1978. Its gentle rhythms redolent of the classic sounds of Armenian folk tunes suffuse the work with melancholy.
https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2014/Jul14/Gabrielyan_piano_ODRCD311.htm