Goethe, Hafez and Persian Poetry

November 20th 2016
Weimar Konzerthall Belvedere Castle Festival MelosLogos

Artists

Composers

Poets

  • Rumi
  • Mirza Shaffy Vazeh
  • Hafez
  • Omar Khayyam
  • Hans Bethge
  • Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Languages

  • Farsi
  • German
  • Armenian (in translation)

DIVAN OF SONG COMPOSITIONS:

Mahdis Golzar Kashani: دزد دل / Heart Snatcher (Rumi)
for soprano and piano (2016), in Farsi

Daniel Behle: Three Hafez Songs / Drei Hafis-Lieder
for tenor and piano (2016), in German

  • Sieh, ich sterbe vor Verlangen (Hafez / Rosenzweig-Schwannau)
  • Am Anfang in Treuen (Hafez / Bürgel)
  • Flügelschläge (Hafez / Rosenzweig-Schwannau)
(Live Recording: Deutschlandfunk Kultur | Photos: Candy Welz)