Isabel Bayrakdarian's Remembrance Tour, celebrating the music of Gomidas Vartabed, whose work is featured on her Nonesuch debut, Gomidas Songs, continues this Friday at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall. Her most recent performance, last week at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, was "a rarity singing a rarity," writes the Vancouver Sun's Lloyd Dykk in his concert review.

Dykk finds Bayrakdarian to be a rarity for "her lustrous voice and emotional commitment to the material she finds meaningful." He calls her Nonesuch recording "wonderful" and says the live performance of its songs "captivated us with the beauty of the songs."

From the singer, "the rhapsodic sound of [whose] voice put a glow on the material," and Serouj Kradjian, her husband and a pianist and the arranger of the songs, "There was veneration and musical sophistication in every bar," Dykk finds, "plus an important awareness of just how far to go, if they were to stay true to the music's roots." What's more, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, which accompanies her on the tour, "played wonderfully."

For the complete review, visit canada.com/vancouversun.

For information on this Friday's performance in Toronto and the other dates on the tour, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.