"There are many performing violinists, but few who can be recorded.”
GEVORG AJEMIAN
Nationally Artist of Armenian SSR, Head of Violinist's Ensemble

Anahit Tsitsikian played many times in Armenia and abroad throughout her half-century concert performance career. She came out onto the stage more than 1000 times in various performances and solo programs. Unfortunately, performing art, as beautiful as it is, passes quickly. The majority of her performances live only in the hearts and minds of the people who heard her and only a small part were ever recorded. Even then, they have not remained in their entirety; some were lost, and others were damaged on old media. Only a small portion survived on magnetic tape, film, vinyl discs and in the radio archives of Armenia and Russia. Some recordings were made during her tours abroad and it is possible that some remain in the archives of Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany and Sri Lanka.

Vinyl discs were recorded in the early 1960s in Moscow, under the “Melodia” label. The earliest of these, recorded in 1962, was unique in that it was the first record of Armenian violin music. It contained new works of young Armenian composers, written for violin and orchestra. The remaining audio records have been digitally re-mastered, recorded onto CD and published by the Anahit Cultural Foundation. Unfortunately, it must be mentioned that none of the video recordings of her on stage have been preserved. Only a few amateur recordings remain in her private archive in Yerevan, and in Moscow a film survived of her playing the immortal “Crane” (Krunk, the bird) by Komitas, which was shot by the creative union “Ekran” (the Screen).