Persian cd

“Electro-dance tracks that revive and remix a 1970s era remembered for a lively Iranian pop scene.” – The Guardian

Maryam Akhondy (born 1957) is a classical trained singer from Teheran/Islamic Republic of Iran. She was student of Ostad Esmail Mehrtasch and Ostad Nassrollah Nassehpour, two masters of classical Iranian music. Because of the difficult situation for artists in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 – especially female artists – she moved to Europe and lives since 1986 in Cologne (Germany).After 1986 Maryam Akhondy started working with other Iranian musicians in exil. With “Nawa” and „Tschakawak“ – both groups of traditional classical Iranian music – she performed in Germany and Scandinavia.At the same time she founded “Ensemble Barbad”, a group with three to five musicians, all classical trained artists. Barbad has been touring all over Europe for the past years…

Recorded in 1995, this Esther was first issued as Collins Classics 7040-2 early the following year. Like Hogwood, Harry Christophers recorded the original 1718 version of what has gone down in history as Handel’s first English oratorio.
In point of fact, the complex and still largely unresolved history of Esther suggests that it was not originally composed as an oratorio at all, but rather as a staged work that would have formed a companion to the near-contemporary Acis and Galatea.

Composed in 1910, at a time when Szymanowski was influenced by Richard Strauss, Reger and Scriabin, the unusually structured Symphony No. 2 is a work of great power and invention, with many passionate and varied contrasts in its use of solo instruments, in particular the violin. Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Song of the Night’, in which orchestra, tenor and choir are subtly blended in a continuous web of intoxicating sound, is a ravishing setting of a Polish translation of a poem by the great medieval Persian mystic known as Mevlânâ, our Master, Jalāl ad-Dīn, which evokes the mysteries and beauty of a starlit Persian night.

Five CD sets containing 100 classic tracks by legendary artists, one of the biggest selling and best remembered musical icons of all time.

All the best of classical music included in this collection is based on the survey of more than 70,000 musicians that are directly related to the classics!