O Canto das Sementes

Fascinated by the Orient - its tales, perfumes and spells – composers of all times create within this captivating and powerful inspiration.

In 2025, Golfam Khayam, a young composer from Tehran, wrote for Le Concert impromptu 4 Chevelures persanes, musical portraits of heroines from Ferdowsi's Book of Kings.

The 4 musical moments are framed by gems signed by Mozart, Boieldieu or Saint-Saëns.

The program is thus heard as an epic narrative where orientalism dialogues with authentic Persian music: a wordless tale evoking the infinite realm of the Thousand and One Nights.