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Kamyar Mohajer: Pictures of the Hidden - chamber works
NV6180 (Navona Records, CD)
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: [62'19"]
Tracks: 12
Booklet pages: 6
© 2018 Navona Records LLC
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of Kamyar Mohajer: Pictures of the Hidden - chamber works published on 20 January 2019
Listen: Kamyar Mohajer: Pictures of the Hidden, Concluded (Five Hafez Songs) (track 7, 2:03-2:54)
Kamyar Mohajer:
1 Prelude (2013)
The Ives Collective:
Kay Stern, violin
Susan Freier, viola
Stephen Harrison, cello
2 Reng (2008, revised 2017)
San Francisco Wind Ensemble:
Jeanine Dennis, flute
Alayne Gyetvai, oboe
Taylor Jordan, clarinet in Bb
Margarite Waddell, french horn
Nathaniel Echols, bassoon
Five Songs, based on poetry of Hafez (2014)
3 Pictures of the Hidden
4 It's Sunrise
5 Light-Burdened Ones on Shore
6 It's Sunrise, Concluded
7 Pictures of the Hidden, Concluded
Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghmai, soprano
Karolina Rojahn, piano
String Quartet (2012)
8 Andante
9 Moderato
10 Adagio
11 Allegro con fuoco
The Alexander String Quartet:
Zakarias Grafilo, violin
Frederick Lifsitz, violin
Paul Yarbrough, viola
Sandy Wilson, cello
12 Ballade in C (2013)
Karolina Rojahn, piano
Recorded 8-10 January 2018 at Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California, USA