Four Persian Mystic Poems

These settings of Four Persian Mystic Poems by Reza Vali are for solo voice (mezzo-soprano or soprano), a Renaissance or Baroque lute (also claves), guitar/arbat (oud), harp, and percussion: Persian or Kurdish daf (or large framedrum), crotales (or glockenspiel or a bell), large claves, large cymbal, and tom-tom. It was commissioned by the Alba Consort Ensemble. Two other versions are available from the publisher: one for guitar, percussion, piano, harpand voice and one (titled THE MYSTERY OF THE ROSE) for flute, violin and piano. Poems/Movements: I. The Morning Discourse (Hafez): II. Do Not Sorrow (Hafez): III. The Mystery of the Rose (Sepehri): IV. When I Think of the Creator(Rumi)