Alexander Rahbari is a legendary musician, Iranian composer and conductor who has worked with more than one hundred and twenty orchestras around the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic. His teachers were Gottfried von Einem, Hans Swarovski and Karl Esterreicher, the conductor collaborated with Herbert von Karajan. Rahbari spent most of his creative life in Europe, where he popularized Persian music, as well as music with an oriental flavor. For example, in 1997, in the Austrian city of Bregenz, he gathered sixty Iranian performers living in exile in various countries and united them into the Persian International Philharmonic Orchestra. Together they recorded a number of works, including Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite Scheherazade, Khachaturian's Violin Concerto and compositions by Rakhbari himself. Returning to his homeland, in 2005 he conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
PERFORMERS: The Mariinsky Chorus and Orchestra Conductor: Alexander Rahbari
PROGRAMME: Alexander Rahbari Symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra Spitama for tenor, choir and orchestra
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