A Portrait of the Composer as a Young Man Amin Sharifi's Select chamber music This album presents a collection of classical contemporary chamber music composed from 2013 to 2016 by Iranian composer, Amin Sharifi, performed and recorded by Pierrot-Tehran New Music Ensemble, Breakout Ensemble and solo artists. All scores are available on the website: www.masharifi.com 1- Quintet No.2 "Written Improvisation" [For Nader Mashayekhi] Note: (From episode 18 Penelope, Ulysses by James Joyce) ​ YES BECAUSE HE NEVER DID A THING LIKE THAT BEFORE AS ASK TO get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City arms hotel when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting to that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d for her methylated spirit telling me all her ailments she had too much old chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end of the world let us have a bit of fun first God help the world if all the women were her sort down on bathing-suits and low-necks of course nobody wanted her to wear I suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice I hope I'll never be like her a wonder she didn't want us to cover our faces but she was a well-educated woman certainly and... Flute: Pouyan Farzin Clarinet: Yalda Ehsani: Violin: Danial Jourabchi Cello: Salar Ghaffarbejoyi Piano: Shadi Shayegani Conductor: Amin Sharifi Recording engineer: Omid Nikbin (Studio Bell) 2- Sketch for Acappella [In memoriam Ahmad Shamlou] Text: in a land unknown at a time yet not arrived. Thus, I was born within the forest of beast and rock. I realized that there was no tiding for in between stood a mirage My heart in void started beating. I abandoned the cradle of reiteration in a land with no bird, no spring. My first journey was a return. Ahmad Shamlou Soprano: Dora Garcidueñas Mezzo: Maria José Tenor: Tom Smith Bass-Bariton: Samuel Penderbayne Performed and recorded by Breakout Ensemble, Munich, Gasteig 3- Monologue for the Loneliness of the Composer No.2 [For Kelariz keshavarz] Note: Do you see what a silent night it is? It is like there is no one in the world. Or perhaps I am in nobody's world. Igor Stravinsky Flute: Kelariz Keshavarz Live performance in Missouri Whitmore Hall 4- Quintet No.1 "Lamentoso" [For Hooshyar Khayyam] Note: Aria from Dido's Lament by Henry Purcell ​ When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in thy breast; Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Flute: Pouyan Farzin Clarinet: Yalda Ehsani: Violin: Danial Jourabchi Cello: Salar Ghaffarbejoyi Piano: Shadi Shayegani Conductor: Amin Sharifi Recording engineer: Omid Nikbin (Studio Bell) 5- Persian Quartet [For Amir Eslami] Santoor: Iman Mohammad Ghasem Tar: Saina Zamanian Oud: Shahriar Jafari Kamancheh: Matin Ahangari Conductor: Amin Sharifi Recording engineer: Reza Farhadi (Studio Kargadan) 6- Why Should be Like This? [For Mehdi Hosseini] Note: Mountains are together and alone Like us Togethers and alones Ahmad Shamlou Flute: Pouyan Farzin Clarinet: Yalda Ehsani Viola: Danial Jourabchi Recording engineer: Reza Assadpour (Studio Sazkhaneh) 7- Eastern Crossroad [In memoriam Toru Takemitsu] Flute: Hossein Ebadollahi Recording engineer: Omid Nikbin (Studio Bell) 8- Enigma [For Amirhosein Sharifi Jabali] Flute I: Hossein Ebadollahi Flute II: Bahram Arshad Rad Flute III: Mahsima Fallahi Recording engineer: Peyman Katami (Studio Kargadan) 9- Monologue for the Loneliness of the Composer No.1 [For Karen Keyhani] Clarinet: Yalda Ehsani Recording engineer: Reza Assadpour (Studio Sorinet) Cover art photo: Seyyed Ali Kasaie