TEHRAN -- The prolific Iranian composer Shahin Farhat is scheduled to record his recent work, the Ferdowsi Symphony, in the Ukraine next month.

Composing the piece is finished now and the music center of Tehran’s Bureau has given us full support to distribute it in Iran after the project is completed in the Ukraine, Farhat told the Persian service of Fars on Sunday.
“The Ferdowsi Symphony contains four movements adapted from Shahnameh. It features the major characters of Shahnameh and their charged emotions. Rustam is described with his sense of prominence and Siavash with pride, for example.”
He added that the characters in Shahnameh come from a fantasy world and that he has made use of melodic music in depicting this fantasy.
Born in 1947 in Tehran, Shahin Farhat is an Iranian composer and is currently professor of music and head of the department of music at the University of Tehran.
Farhat has composed over eighty works including the symphonies “Iranian Lady”, “Damavand”, “Persian Gulf”, “Muhammad (S)”, “Martyrs” and “Iran”.
Photo: A statue of Ferdowsi at Ferdowsi Square in Tehran