Avaz Dashti, "Biyar badeh". Hosein Nourshargh & Group "Ghamar", Moscow 2012

Concert "Hanuz" ("Still..."), Iranian classical music, Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, 23.10.2012 Avaz Dashti, lyrics -- unknown Tasnif "Biyar badeh". Lyrics -- Rumi (Moulana), music -- Navid Dehghan HOSEIN NOURSHARGH (avaz) and the Group "GHAMAR": Navid DEHGHAN (leader, kamancheh) Nasim ARBABI (kamancheh) Alireza GERANFAR (santur) Shahin SAFAIE (tar) On the 23rd of October, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory was illuminated with the "Light of Orient" — which is an exact translation of the singer's last name, Nourshargh, from Farsi. Accompanied by "Ghamar," a famous instrumental group, he has introduced a unique art of classical Iranian avaz. The very fact of presenting this ancient Oriental tradition, perfected in all its details, in Russia's best concert hall is quite symbolic. Based on the most complex musical canon, with centuries-long secrets of memorizing and evolving its idioms, this tradition has demonstrated the triumph of inherent creative genius and familial artistry, which both open up a musician's mind for supreme revelation. Hosein Nourshargh is one of those rare living musicians who have brilliantly managed to embody some topical ideas of today by means of a strictly traditional school of Ispahan avaz, which is genuinely Iranian. Together with the group "Ghamar" led by Navid Dehghan, a subtle musician and brilliant kamancheh virtuoso, Hosein Nourshargh has performed a major program of Iranian classical music. It consists of various instrumental genres like chahar-mezrabs, as well as of spontaneous avazes and tasnifs on the verses of such Persian poets as Rumi and Hafez. A famous "Decorator's Studio of Mark Patlis's" helped reconstruct an atmosphere of luxurious palaces and exquisite meetings of noble people, which is customary for the avaz performing tradition. An inimitable and warm voice of Hosein Nourshargh's, which can deliver the highest degree of emotional tension, combined with the subtle intellectual playing and enchanting beauty of Persian poetry, as well as with an unrivaled glow and magic force of the Persian carpet "music," has brought genuine delight to all whose visit to the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory this evening is associated with an expectation to feed their hearts with supreme spiritual energy.