Baroque Music Ensemble is to perform a classical concert at Roudaki Hall in Tehran on July 13-14.
The group will play musical pieces from Baroque masters including Italian composer Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), British composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Italian violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), German composer Georg Philip Telemann and British composer William Babell (1688-1723), Honaronline reported on its Persian website.
Baroque is a style of western classical music composed from 1600 to 1750 and forms a major part of the “classical music” canon. Key composers of the Baroque music (other than those mentioned above) include Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), George Frideric Handel (1726-1759) and Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643).
Flute player Reza Asgarzadeh is leader of the band. Members of the ensemble include Farhoud Biglarbeygi who plays flute recorder, Aydin Mon’em on harpsichord, cello player Anar Eta’ati, violinists Amir-Hossein Nouroz-Nasseri and Pendar Parsi plus player Setareh Beheshti.
The term “baroque” comes from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning “misshapen pearl,” the name came into existence by the nineteenth century critics who claimed that the music of Bach and Handel era sounded overly ornamented and exaggerated.
Concert venue is on Shahriar St., Hafez St., South of Enqelab Ave.
