Hamish McLaren, Matthew Jorysz – Persian Love Songs (EP) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 15:18 minutes | 257 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
Anton Rubinstein wrote his Persian Songs in 1854, while on tour in Germany. The source was a recent collection of poems by Friedrich von Bodenstedt, who advertised them as translations from the work of the Azeri poet Mirza Shafi Vazeh (Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh, 1805-52), with whom he had studied during his travels to the Caucasus. Tchaikovsky was later commissioned to produce a singable Russian translation of the German texts, but he disputed the provenance, maintaining that Bodenstedt, whom he had met, did not know Persian and simply invented the poems (Bodenstedt, as it happens, had by then decided to claim the authorship of these bestselling poems for himself). The 20th century saw a revival of Vazeh’s work, and an examination of the original texts showed that Bodenstedt had indeed translated them, although his versions were much more effusive than Vazeh’s.
Tracklist:
01. Hamish McLaren & Matthew Jorysz – Rubinstein: 12 Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy, Op. 34 “Persian Songs” (Excerpts): No. 1, Nicht mit Engeln in blauen Himmelszelt (04:44)
02. Hamish McLaren & Matthew Jorysz – Rubinstein: 12 Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy, Op. 34 “Persian Songs” (Excerpts): No. 2, Mein Herz schmückt sich mit Dir (02:31)
03. Hamish McLaren & Matthew Jorysz – Rubinstein: 12 Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy, Op. 34 “Persian Songs” (Excerpts): No. 4, Es hat die Rose sich beklagt (02:05)
04. Hamish McLaren & Matthew Jorysz – Rubinstein: 12 Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy, Op. 34 “Persian Songs” (Excerpts): No. 8, Neig’ schöne Knospe (02:55)
05. Hamish McLaren & Matthew Jorysz – Rubinstein: 12 Lieder des Mirza-Schaffy, Op. 34 “Persian Songs” (Excerpts): No. 10, Die helle Sonne leuchtet (03:01)
