Book of Lamentations
Out of the Ruins is a choral work by Michael Nyman for an eponymous BBC documentary by Agnieszka Piotrowska in commemorating the first anniversary of the 1988 Spitak earthquake in Armenia 7 December 1988, which aired on the BBC's "40 Minutes". The texts are from Grigor Narekatsi's "Book of Lamentations". It was conducted by Khoren Meykhnanejian.