Sound Cosmos NRW 2024
Classical Persian music and Sufi chants from Pakistan
WDR 3 concert | 23 June 2024, 20:04 - 23:00
(Available until 23 July 2024)
The Rokhs Quartet from Iran enchants the audience with classical Persian music in the Klangkosmos NRW series at the Düsseldorf Jazz-Schmiede. Mystical Sufi chants from Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan will be performed by the Meher Angez Trio.
For over 20 years, the Klangkosmos NRW concert series has been bringing unusual artists from all over the world to Germany to perform the exciting musical traditions of their home countries in many cities in North Rhine-Westphalia over a period of several weeks. In the current season, the four Iranian musicians of the Rokhs Quartet delighted concertgoers in February with two suites in which they set poems by world-famous medieval poets such as Hafez, Rumi and Jami to music in the traditional style on classical Persian instruments, as well as playing music from the 19th century. In May, Meher Angez, the first and only Sufi singer from Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region, will be performing in various cities in NRW. Accompanied by her daughter, who is one of the few professional tabla players in the world, and a master of the traditional lute Charda-Hunzai-Rubab, the highly esteemed Pakistani singer sang Ginan's epic poems about divine love, cosmology, rituals, ethical behaviour and meditation, which have been strongly influenced by Ismaili culture since the 12th century.
Recordings from 6 March and 15 May 2024 from the Jazz-Schmiede, Düsseldorf
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