Unesco Collection [1]. Anthology of World Music: Iran

Цитата:
Iran, cradle of the most ancient cultures in the world, has remained a land of inspiration where, in all epochs, painters, poets, mystics, philosophers and musicians have flourished. Iranian music, like Indian music, is modal, but in its structure it seems to be more closely related to ancient Greek music. On this 2-CD set, young musicians such as the singer Golpayegani and older musicians such as kamantché player Ashgar Bahari show the intensity of discipline, technique, emotion and skill of interpretation that make Iranian music perhaps the most profound and most human musical system of our time.

These are taken from the fifty albums compiled by Alain Danielou for the Anthology of World Music series, but apart from noting that this series was originally issued between 1968 and 1987, there is nothing to indicate when the material on this double-disc anthology of Iranian traditional music was recorded. Anyway, the ten lengthy tracks on this double CD (some around 20 minutes in duration) offer a respectable, well-recorded cross-section of Iranian music, performed on stringed instruments such as the bowed kamantche, the lute-like sehtar, or the nai flute; there is also a piece for solo dombak (the Iranian single-skin drum) and sung poems. It's mostly very somber in tone, without enough melodic variation to appeal to Western ears; the most interesting selections are Teherani's dombak solo, and Zabihi's quavering, unaccompanied rendition of a mystic poem of Araqi, in which he gets some amazing vibrating vocal tones. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

RACK LISTINGS

Disc: 1 1. Variations In The Chahargah Mode - Ashgar Bahari 2. Poem Of Saadi, Sung In The Segah Mode - Golpayegani 3. The Dashti Mode - Ebrahimi Listen Listen 4. Poem Of Saadi, Sung In The Mode Bayote-Isphahan And Variations - Golpayegani

Disc: 2 1. Dombak Solo - Teherani 2. The Segah Mode, Played On The Santur - Hussein Malek 3. The Isphahan Mode, Played On The Tat - Zarif 4. Mystic Poem Of Araq - Zabihi Listen Listen 5. The Bhatriyari Mode, Played On The Nai - Hussein Khan E Yaveri 6. The Abu-Ata Mode (With Variations In Hejaz), Played On The Tar - Jalal Davudi

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