Persian cd

An early LP from one of the great arrangers. You will like it.

Abed Azrie - Hafez & Goethe: Divan (2013) [CD+DVD] {Doumtak}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 267 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 116 Mb
DVD5 -> 2.24 Gb | All Regions | PAL 16:9 | LinearPCM, 2 ch | ~72m | ISO Image | Subs: Francais, English, Deutsch
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© 2013 Doumtak / Harmonia Mundi | DOM005
Classical / World Music / Jazz

In his latest album, the Syrian composer-singer Abed Azrié adapts texts of the great contemporary Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis. Back on the work of this "alchemist of communication", as he likes to define the musician role, who does not hesitate to enrich traditional Arabic music with synthesizers and Western instruments.

Isabelle de Spoelberch was born into a family where music plays an important role in everyday life. During her childhood she fell in love with the harp and started cultivating a deep fascination with Celtic traditions and medieval music. She took harp lessons with Arianna Savall and Robin Huw Bowen and studied instrument making at the Fachschule für Streich und Zupfinstrumentbau in Hallstatt, Austria.

On her debut double album, the Celtic harp is the common thread through a journey of discovery along different roads and cultures. New compositions and traditional music are alternated with long improvisations in which the harpist enters into a dialogue with the Armenian duduk, the Turkish saz or the Persian tombak. The music of 'Appel à la Source' pays tribute to what music from different corners of the world 'à la source' have in common. Isabelle de Spoelberch is inspired by Scandinavian mythology, shamanism, the four elements of nature, Eastern mysticism and the ancestral tradition of wandering singer-poets in Anatolia, Bengal and Senegal. All these influences are interwoven in a richly varied and mysterious album on which twelve guest musicians from seven different countries have contributed.

Behzad Ranjbaran (b.1955) was born in Tehran, and came to the United States in 1974 to study at Indiana University. After receiving his doctorate from Juilliard in composition (he studied with Diamond, Schwantner, and Persichetti), he became a faculty member there. I confess his name was not familiar to me before this CD arrived in the mail, but perhaps it should have been. Among his recent accomplishments is a piano concerto that was premiered in 2008 by Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Robert Spano. Joshua Bell premiered his Violin Concerto in 2003. Furthermore, this is the second all-Ranjbaran CD to be released.