Hamburger Ratsmusik - Persia & Baroque [CD]

In the Baroque era, European society turned its gaze to foreign countries in the Orient, with Persia exerting a particular fascination that was not necessarily anthropological in nature.

Foreign countries and figures made it possible, for example in Montesquieu's famous Lettres Persanes (1721), to express and disseminate the new Enlightenment ideas, such as criticism of absolutism, under the guise of the exotic. However, music was less philosophical or anthropological; Persian themes tended to provide a special "kick" in opera or instrumental music.

Gambist Simone Eckert presents such works with Persian subjects with her Hamburger Ratsmusik on the new album Persian & Baroque and has teamed up with the Neoclassical Ensemble of Tehran for this. This formation, under the direction of musicologist Arash Mohafez, specializes in Persian music that has been passed down in ancient manuscripts, while traditional Persian musicians and ensembles usually play music that has been passed down orally and whose origins only go back to the 19th century.

The Neoclassical Ensemble complements the baroque program with classical Persian pieces from surviving manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries. The special feature of the cooperation between these two formations is that both the European baroque repertoire and the Persian classical repertoire are shared by the ensembles.

Georg Friedrich Handel: Siroe I. Ouverture

Allegro

Jigg

Anonymous: Pishrow in maqam Neyshabur & osul Chanbar

Marin Marais: IV. Livre (Paris 1717) - L'Arabesque

Anonymous: Pishrow Golestan in maqam Panjgah & osul Doyek

Farid Kheradmand: Tombak improvisation

Telemann: Miriways TWV 21:24 (Scena XII) - Marche en Persien

Demetrius Cantemir: Pishrow in maqam Bozorg & osul Zarbeyn

Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer: Pieces de Clavecin (Paris 1746)

Arash Mohafez: maqam Hejaz-Ozzal (Improvisation)

Anonymous: Pishrow in maqam Ozzal & osul Fakhte

Marin Marais: V. Livre (Paris 1725) - Marche Persane dite la Savigny

Le Tourbillon

Nima Noury: taqsim in maqam Nahavand-e Kabir

Abdolqader Maraghi: Naqsh in maqam Nahavand-e Kabir & osul Dowr-e Ravan

Purcell: Distressed Innocence or The Princess of Persia Z. 577 I. Overture

II. Air

III. Slow Air

IV. Air

V. Hornpipe

VI. Rondeau

VII. Air

VIII. Minuet

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 4010072774866
• Release Date: June 20, 2025

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