PARISA & RAHMATOLLAH BADIYI: Rahavard

Parisa & Rahmatollah Badiyi

Rahavard

© 2002 Amity Records (828849021044)

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A collection from traditional/classical Persian music including Segah, Homayoun, Shushtari, Oshagh, Bakhtiar, Chaharmezrab, and Mathnavi.

tracks

1 Sinayi-hagg Intro.
2 Sinayi-hagg Chant
3 Chahar-midrab
4 Selections From the Mathnavi
5 Ayiniyih-dil Chant
6 Durd-i Safa
7 Violin Solo
8 Raz Va Niyaz
9 Chahar-midrab and Chant
10 Shustari
11 Ushshaq Bakhtiyari
12 Firash-i-ghaflat

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Album Description
Traditional Persan music and passages from the Baha'i Writings featuring legendary Iranian maestro Rahmatollah Badiyi on the violin.

About the Artist
Rahmatollah Badiyi was born in 1936 in Kashan, Iran. At the age of five he began to play the nayk, a Persian flute and at age seven, he started playing violin. At age eleven, he entered the Tehran Conservatory to study classical music with the famous Abol-Hasan Saba who would be his mentor for the next five years. He has collaborated with various national orchestras as a concert master and soloist for more than twenty three years. During this period he worked as a professor in the National Conservatory of Music in Iran's capital, Tehran. In addition to the violin, Badiyi plays the kamoncheh and ghichak, both traditional stringed instruments of Iran. He received an honorary doctorate from the Ministry of Art and Culture of Iran, the highest possible recognition for his work in music.

Parisa Badiyi was born in Tehran. As a child she began playing the piano and at the age of nine she entered the Music Conservatory of Tehran where she studied classical violin performance. In 1979, Parisa and her family moved to Holland where she continued her musical education. She graduated as an instructor in the Suzuki Method. Parisa has studied classical Persian music under her father, Rahmatollah Badiyi. Her warm, touching voice is well-suited to traditional Persian singing (avaz), a skill she has mastered under the guidance of her father. Among her honors was that she was accorded first violinist in the orchestra for the Second Baha'i Congress in New York City in 1992. Parisa now resides in Germany where she teaches piano and violin at the Culture and Arts Center.

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  • Wonderful way to appreciate the Revealed Word in Persian
    author: Sue B.

    I appreciate the way this recording takes me to the Persian background of the Baha'i Faith. I love knowing that these are the actual words from the Baha'i Writings, even though I cannot understand the language. The spirit is there, and breathes through the violin and chants.

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