Hamburger Ratsmusik - Persia & Baroque - Classical Persian Music and European Baroque (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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.

TRACKLIST

1. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Ouverture
2. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Allegro
3. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Jigg
4. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Pishrow in maqâm Neyshabur & osul Chanbar
5. Hamburger Ratsmusik - L’Arabesque
6. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Pishrow Golestan in maqâm Panjgah & osul Doyek
7. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Tombak improvisation
8. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Marche en Persien
9. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Pishrow in maqâm Bozorg & osul Zarbeyn
10. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Zaïde, reine de Grenade
11. Hamburger Ratsmusik - maqâm Hejaz
12. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Pishrow in maqâm Ozzal & osul Fakhte
13. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Marche Persane dite la Savigny
14. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Le Tourbillon
15. Hamburger Ratsmusik - taqsim in maqâm Nahavand
16. Hamburger Ratsmusik - Naqsh in maqâm Nahavand
17. Hamburger Ratsmusik - I. Overture
18. Hamburger Ratsmusik - II. Air
19. Hamburger Ratsmusik - III. Slow Air
20. Hamburger Ratsmusik - IV. Air
21. Hamburger Ratsmusik - V. Hornpipe
22. Hamburger Ratsmusik - VI. Rondeau
23. Hamburger Ratsmusik - VII. Air
24. Hamburger Ratsmusik - VIII. Minuet



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