Râz-e No (The Novel Mystery) Publish Year : 1998 Maqâm-e Dâd-o Bidâd, Âvâz-e Abu'atâ Composed by Hossein Alizâdeh Hamâvâyân Ensemble Mohsen Kerâmati, Afsane Rasâyi, Homa Niknâm and Ali Samadpour, Vocals M. CD 38 Darâmad (Maqâm-e Dâd-o Bidâd) 2:38 Reng-e Osul (Târ, Tombak, Dammâm) (Maqâm-e Dâd-o Bidâd) 3:57 Dâd-o Bidâd (Hamnavâyi) (Maqâm-e Dâd-o Bidâd) 13:27 Sâz-o Âvâz (Maqâm-e Dâd-o Bidâd) 3:40 Falak (Tasnif-e Dâd-o Bidâd) (Maqâm-e Dâd-o Bidâd) 5:51 Darâmad (Âvâz-e Abu'atâ) 5:09 Châhârmezrâb (Tanbur) (Âvâz-e Abu'atâ) 2:34 Masnavi Khâni (Âvâz-e Abu'atâ) 10:56 Maqâm-e Mâvarâ-on-Nahr, Forud-e Navâ (Hamâvâyi) (Âvâz-e Abu'atâ) 5:12 The Novel Mystery (Tasnif-e Navâ) (Âvâz-e Abu'atâ)

Hossein Alizâdeh (Persian: حسین علیزاده‎) is an Iranian composer,[1] radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar and setar instrumentalist and improviser, described by Allmusic as a leading Iranian classical composer and musician.[2] He has made numerous recording with prominent musicians including Shajarian, Nazeri, Madjid Khaladj, and Gasparyan, and is a member of the Musical group, Masters of Persian Music. Alizâdeh was born in 1951 in Tehran to an Azeri father (from Urmia) and a Persian mother (from Arak).[3] As a teenager he attended secondary school at a music conservatory[3] until 1975. His music studies continued at the University of Tehran, where his focus was composition and performance.[3] He began postgraduate studies at the Tehran University of Art. After the Iranian Revolution, he resumed his studies at the University of Berlin, where he studied composition and musicology.[3] Alizâdeh plays the tar and setar. He has performed with two of Iran's national orchestras, as well as with the Aref Ensemble, the Shayda Ensemble,[3] and Masters of Persian Music. In Europe, his first professional performance was with the Bejart Ballet Company’s orchestra in a performance of a Maurice Béjart ballet called Golestan.[3] Over the years Alizâdeh's teachers have included Houshang Zarif, Ali Akbar Shahnazi, Nur-Ali Borumand, Mahmoud Karimi, Abdollah Davami, Yusef Forutan, and Sa'id Hormozi.