Time Present And Time Past

Mahan Esfahani has made a brilliant recording of Piano Phase. His attention to detail makes the music absolutely sparkle. I am extremely impressed and moved by his performance. – Steve Reich Instruments Burkhard Zander, 2012, after a harpsichord by Joannes Daniel Dulcken, Antwerp 1745 Detmar Hungerberg, 2010, "false inner-outer" after Florentine models of the 17th century (Scarlatti) Daniel Kidane has taught me more than most that good music is, indeed, out of time and out of place. There was once a man named Bjarne Dahl. I'd go round to his restoration workshop in northern California back in university days, almost weekly, and he taught me how to be inspired. He once gave me a book and wrote on the first page: "To Mahan – never give up!" I wish he were still around to see that my life has been a tribute to his mentoring. Bjarne – et in Arcadia ego! – Mahan Esfahani Concerto Köln would like to thank the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia for their generous support in this project. A co-production with Deutschlandfunk Recording: Cologne, Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, 9/2014 Publishers: © by Ed. W. Hansen Hamburg, administered by Int. Musikverlage Hans Sikorski GmbH & Co. KG (Górecki); © 1980 by Universal Edition Ltd., London; version for harpsichord by Mahan Esfahani © 2014 by Universal Edition Ltd., London (Reich) ℗ 2015 Deutschlandradio / Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin © 2015 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin Quotes from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets © T. S. Eliot 1935, reproduced by kind permission of Faber & Faber Deutsche Übersetzung aus Gesammelte Gedichte. Aus dem Englischen von Nora Wydenbruck © Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1972/1988 Traduction française per Pierre Leyris tirée de Poésie © Éditions du Seuil, 1947, 1950, 1969, pour la traduction française, coll. Pouts Poésie, 2006 Suit designed by Cian McAuliffe for Beggars Run, London (pp. 5 & 8) We would like to thank Cafe Moskau in Berlin, where the photos of Mahan Esfahani were taken. Cover and Artist Photos © Bernhard Musil Printed in the EU The young Iranian harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani makes his Deutsche Grammophon debut with a typically adventurous mix of Baroque classics and Minimalist masterpieces, featuring his own multi-tracked arrangement of Steve Reich's seminal 1967 Piano Phase and Henryk Górecki's compact 1980 concerto, both recorded for the very first time on a period keyboard. "The harpsichord may never quite be mainstream material, but you sense that, if it were ever to get there, Esfahani might just be the man to make it happen." (International Record Review) ℗ 2015 Deutschlandradio / Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Stralauer Allee 1, 10245 Berlin A UNIVERSAL MUSIC COMPANY A co-production with Deutschlandfunk Cover and Back Cover Photo © Bernhard Musil Made in the EU · Total time: 73:45 Comes in a standard jewel case with clear tray and 20-page booklet; liner notes in English ("History is a pattern of timeless moments"), German (»Die Geschichte ist in Muster aus zeitlosen Augenblicken«), and French (« L'historie est un motif de moments intemporels »)