Hafez - Opera In Two Acts
Behzad Abdi, Behrouz Gharibpour, محمد معتمدی, Hossein Alishapour, Babak Sabouri, Eshaq Anvar, Mohammad Zakerhossein, Ali Zandevakili, Haleh Seyfizadeh, Credo Chamber Choir, Bogdan Plish, National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine, Volodymyr Sirenko
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Release Date: 2021-08Label: Naxos
The music of Iranian composer Behzad Abdi fuses dastgāh (the Iranian modal system) with Western classical forms. He wrote Iran’s first national opera, Rumi (Naxos 8.660424-25), and Hafez also exemplifies his approach to the medium. The opera’s subject is the great Persian poet and mystic Hafez, whose sonnets and poetry are still widely read across the Persian-speaking world today. Behrouz Gharibpour’s libretto traces the poet’s tribulations, memories of keeping his poems from being destroyed by a despotic government, and subsequent exile. Abdi’s polytonal technique serves to reflect the unique concepts of Hafez’s 14th-century poetry with passion, lyricism and power.