Credo Chamber Choir, Bogdan Plish, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Vladimir Sirenko - Abdi: Hafez (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. Hafez, Act I: Scene 1, Sultan Mobarezedin's Attack
02. Hafez, Act I: Scene 2, Disaster and Killing Sultan Abu Eshaq
03. Hafez, Act I: Scene 2, Elegy
04. Hafez, Act I: Scene 3, Pub and Obeid Zakani
05. Hafez, Act I: Scene 4, Saqinameh
06. Hafez, Act I: Scene 5, Prison of Sultan Mobarezedin
07. Hafez, Act I: Scene 6, Hafez's Aria I
08. Hafez, Act I: Scene 6, Obeid and Sultan Mobarezedin
09. Hafez, Act I: Scene 7, Hafez's Aria II and Arrest Hafez

CD2
01. Hafez, Act II: Scene 1, Revolt
02. Hafez, Act II: Scene 2, Victory
03. Hafez, Act II: Scene 3, Departure of Hafez
04. Hafez, Act II: Scene 3, Dialogue
05. Hafez, Act II: Scene 4, Shakh-e Nabat
06. Hafez, Act II: Scene 5, Death
07. Hafez, Act II: Scene 6, Final



The music of Iranian composer Behzad Abdi fuses dastgah (the Iranian modal system) with Western classical forms. He wrote Iran’s first national opera, Rumi, 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.

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