“We Will Find Tranquility” is originally composed for Saxophone Quartet. After performing it in the live online concert of “Stockholm Saxophone Quartet” on 7th of June 2020, Ms. Kaia Lattikas, the manager of "Estonian Sinfonietta" asked me to re-arrange this piece for string orchestra and vibraphone. This version of "We Will Find Tranquility" has been performed by Estonian Sinfonietta; conducting by Endrik Üksvärav, premiered on Monday 14th of June 2021, in St. John church, Tallinn; Estonia

We Will Find Tranquility (string orchestra)

I had composed this piece for solo violin, as soundtrack of movie "Destruction."
A friend of mine made this mix: with a poem of a famous contemporary  Iranian poet "Ahmadreza Ahmadi"

تو خواب بودی؛ بهار آمد و رفت

Composer: Reza Mortazavi
Lyrics: Ahmad Shamlu
Pianist: Basir Faghihnasiri
Cellist: Mehrdad Alemi
Vocalist: Reza Mortazavi
Record: Hami Haghighi, Mehdi Ramezani
Mix & Mastering: Hami Haghighi
Photographer & Designer: Ashkan Hashemi

How impatiently I want you!
You, whose separation
Is the bitter taste of
Being buried alive!

How impatiently I need you
Like a restless one
On the back of a restless horse

And separation
Is a useless experience

I feel the smell of your shirt
Here
Now

Mountains are cold
In separation

My hands
In streets
In bed
Are looking for
The familiar presence of
Your hands

Without the whisper of your fingers
The world is empty
From a warming ‘hello’

FERAQI (In Absentia)

ISHTAR (Helia)for Harp & Bam Sorahi
Composer: Reza Mortazavi
Bam Sorahi: Mehrdad Alemi
"Bam Sorahi" is an instrument, invented by Mohamadreza Shajarian, Iranian vocalist master of Persian traditional music.

Maybe Ishtar (Helia) is a dance of a myth in legends: Dance of Ishtar when she proposes to Gilgamesh: ‘Come, Gilgamesh, be you my bridegroom! Grant me your fruits, grant me! Be youmy husband and I your wife!’

Helia has performed on 12th of August 2011 by Aare Tammesalu (Cello instead of Bam Sorahi) and Eda Peäske (harp)in a concert in Haapsalu, Estonia.

ISTAR (Helia)

Sound track of theater "Flying Into Darkness"
written and directed by Afshin Hashemi
Composer: Reza Mortazavi
Vocalist: Hadi Feyzabadi

Gerye Kon

Sound track of movie "Don't be tired!" directed by Afshin Hashemi and Mohsen Gharaie.
Composer: Reza Mortazavi

Flute: Aras Sepasian
Oboe: Nazanin Ahmadzadeh
Clarinet: Golnar Shaari
Bassoon: Alireza Motevaseli
Horn: Mahsa Yousefnezhad
Violin: Ali Jafari Pouyan, Kaveh Tasiri
Viola: Kaveh Tasiri
Cello: Mehrdad Alemi
Double Bass: Farshid Patinian

"Don't be tired!"

Soundtrack of documentary movie "Friends At Work" of Karestan documentary film series, directed by Mohsen Abdolvahad. producer: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. artistic consultant: Rakhshan BaniEtemad. avaliable in album "35mm" collection of my Soundtracks

35mm

"Friends At Work"

Soundtrack for movie "Voice of Silence" directed by Hadi naieji, Producer: Reza Mirkarimi. avaliable in album "35mm" collection of my soundtracks

Voice of Silence

Soundtrack of documentary movie "Mahak: A World She Founded" of Karestan documentary film series, directed by Mohsen Abdolvahad. producer: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. available in album "35mm" collection of my soundtracks

Mahak: A World She Founded

"We Will Find Tranquility" is one of Reza Mortazavi's composition for saxophone quartet, and it's world premiere was performed by Stockholm Saxophone Quartet on 24th of April 2016 in "Tehran 1st International Contemporary Music festival" in Roudaki hall:
Mathias Karlsen Björnstad - soprano saxophone, Jörgen Pettersson - alto saxophone, Leif Karlborg - tenor saxophone, and Linn Persson - baritone saxophone.
It also has been performed on 4th of December 2018 by Stockholm Saxophone Quartet in Musikaliska hall, Stockholm.

We Will Find Tranquility

I composed my "Nocturne" on a poem of Iranian famous poet "Ahmad Shamlu" for String Orchestra, Harp, Timpani and Countertenor in 2014. "Glasperlenspiel Sinfonietta" performed it in 30th international Fadjr Music Festival on 15th of Feb. 2015 at Vahdat Hall in Tehran and on 16th of Feb. 2015 at Hafez Hall in Shiraz BUT without vocalist.
On 19th of July 2015 "Glasperlenspiel Sinfonietta" performed my "Nocturne" again in Glasperlenspiel Festival, ST. Jhon's Church, Tartu, Estonia BUT this time with vocalist! 
I am so honored that maestro Andres Mustonen conducted my nocturne and Ka Bo Chan (Countertenor from Hong Kong) sang it.

Reza Mortazavi

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