Janna Baty, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen & Fawzi Haimor - Reza Vali: The Being of Love (2024) [24/96]

Award-winning composer Reza Vali is a native of Iran but is now based in the United States after studies in Europe. Vali’s distinctive cross-cultural style is founded in a quiet rebellion that saw him return to his Persian musical heritage. Following the dazzling concert opener Ravân, Vali has taken a text by 13th-century poet and mystic, Rumi, two traditional texts, and words by Vali himself, to create the moving cycle The Being of Love, with each song evoking a different aspect of love. Isfahan uses Persian modes and forms, and is among Vali’s most striking microtonal works, pushing the orchestra beyond its usual twelve-note sound-world in an exciting way.

The Iranian composer, Reza Vali, studied in Europe and is now based in the US. Vali’s cross-cultural style fuses Persian modes and forms, Western classical music and the use of microtones – pushing the boundaries of orchestral playing in an exciting way. Mezzo-soprano Janna Baty is the soloist in the orchestral song cycle The Being of Love, sung in Persian.

Tracklist:
1. Ravân (7:09)
2. Folk Songs, Set No. 16 "The Being of Love": No. 1, Longing (2:40)
3. Folk Songs, Set No. 16 "The Being of Love": No. 2, Love Drunk (2:04)
4. Folk Songs, Set No. 16 "The Being of Love": No. 3, In Memory of a Lost Beloved (4:08)
5. Folk Songs, Set No. 16 "The Being of Love": No. 4, The Girl from Shiraz (5:43)
6. Folk Songs, Set No. 16 "The Being of Love": No. 5, The Being of Love (9:47)
7. Calligraphy No. 16 "Isfahan" (23:10)


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