Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی @MahanEsfahani Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@antone_al

@BachnerMichael

@AnitaMW

@thebroborks

@ShanePandeSA

@stw_pdg

@BSouthstreet

@jinglingcookies

@stw_pdg

@randyshoup

@Jstov98

@Coach_JQuarles

@randy5393

@NorwegianLad9

@ATI_Ireland

@martinhobff

@marra_frederico

@fujixyeh

@Pecintastw4050

@BBCRadio2

@jandakembangstw

@mckennajm71

@Aroobi_xx

@jbmaggio

@suyamaromi

@coachcanales

@porterfieldlol

@kayinaru

@LisaShuman4

@torbooks

@LTK_AtomiK

@HamsterMaster

@jandakembangstw

@xlanceyy

@FutFounder97

@Network_Impacts

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 month

Once in a while I think about leaving this site and then remember that it occasionally produces absolute gold like this

16

149

5K

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

A rather long thread. Last night, when we heard the news of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw cancelling two concerts of the Jerusalem Quartet due to the current geopolitical situation, we were shocked. I texted my friend @DannyDriver_ and within about 20 minutes we got this going:

42

579

2K

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

I cannot quite stress to Western observers how massive this is - Iran's bazaar class are king-makers (and, er, de-makers). This is really "Game Over, thanks for playing" territory now.

National Union for Democracy in Iran

@NUFDIran

2 years

The bazaar is going on strike in #Tehran . Stores closed all over the capital. Today is a day of revolution. #Mahsa_Amini ⁩ ⁧#مهسا_امینی‌⁩ ⁦ #IranRevolution ⁩

37

784

2K

25

543

2K

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 months

How true; I’ll certainly never forget when David Cameron had Gordon Brown killed and then I was sent to a gulag in the Falklands when I went out to protest.

30

164

1K

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

You all asked for a sample of how this machine works. Here she is in all her 7-pedalled glory and variety of colours in a bit of J.S. Bach.

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Hold all my calls from now until approximately the end of time

25

23

431

46

171

1K

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

…to cancel the May 16th and 18th performances by the Jerusalem String Quartet. Threats to the safety of musicians, concert hall staff, and the general public, fly in the face of hard-won democratic values and freedom of expression, and should have no place in our society.

1

35

692

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

The behaviour of our arts organisations should reflect this, and should stand up for these values. By cancelling these concerts, the management of the Concertgebouw placates a vocal minority who advocate for their cause through intimidation and credible threats of disorder…

3

35

684

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

We, the undersigned, as musicians who celebrate mutual respect across different disciplines and specialisations, who regularly collaborate and who draw inspiration from one another, are appalled at the recent announcement of the Concertgebouw…

4

37

628

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Tonight is the winter solstice which in Iran and by Iranians throughout the world is celebrated as Jashn-e Yalda, which the ancient Persians marked as the night with the longest darkness in the year. May the darkness over Iran finally end. #yalda #yaldanight #iranrevolution

11

129

606

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

… and violence. We need not look very far back into European history to see what happens when people acquiesce to the very behaviours that sow their own downfall. Anything less than permitting the Jerusalem String Quartet to continue with its planned performances —

1

27

625

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

And thanks to @NLebrecht for running this, @DannyDriver_ for being a legend, @joshweilerstein for his invaluable help @dariavdb for her improvements, comments, and support!

8

32

556

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

— s — and to provide them and the audience of the Concertgebouw with protection and support — amounts to pure moral cowardice.

1

19

541

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

We wholeheartedly protest this act and as musicians call for an immediate redress. *please share with as many people as you can and message me privately to add your name to the signatories.*

2

25

514

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

We call upon the management of the Concertgebouw to show strength of character in defending the concert platform as a realm for free expression of the sublime yearnings of the human spirit otherwise…

1

20

513

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 years

It is insane to me that Paul Robeson is not universally celebrated as one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

27

96

459

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

I really wish that someone, preferably a caring adult, had taken pains to emphasise this to me before I went off to university.

6

98

460

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

As I’ve said before with posts like this, I have 75 million Iranians who would love to take that if it makes you really unhappy.

Ian Dunt

@IanDunt

3 years

As if today couldn't get any worse, my new passport came.

964

102

3K

12

60

444

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 years

Worst Steve Reich gig ever

Nigel Farage

@Nigel_Farage

4 years

Supporting Clap For Our Carers.

4K

1K

11K

17

62

458

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

… failed by words and actions that all too often lapse into meaningless, pseudo-moral binaries. The Concertgebouw’s behaviour succumbs to an “education at the college of fools” rather than continuing to affirm itself as a bastion of the ineffable.

2

19

460

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Hold all my calls from now until approximately the end of time

25

23

431

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Of all the likenesses of J.S. Bach (born 21.03.1685) I like this of the young Bach in Arnstadt the most, mainly because it gives us an image that goes against Bach the old master and because the last time I posted it, I got a lot of angry responses because, well, this is Twitter.

40

31

401

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

A few remarks on what is going on right now in Iran, and how you can help us in what are still early days. One can only say so much in the 2:20 allowed by Twitter, but I have tried my best.

20

154

384

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

If great composers were forced to to make careers in the United States:

22

74

389

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

having thought about it over a night of sleep, I think the de-funding of the Britten Sinfonia in the NPO is the most monstrous arts news in recent memory and, frankly, it makes me sclerotically angry.

10

47

376

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

Am reminded of my early days as an opera repetiteur when I realise that Ted Cruz looks like the kind of tenor who still wears a pager and has trouble with anything in 3/4

15

41

339

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

I realise this is shocking, but the Guardian has actually just verbalised what a lot of self-congratulating "right-thinking" people thought and do think about us. I really don't know why anyone is surprised.

13

62

320

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

His vision of Englishness? You mean the vision of a non-conformist who conducted Bach Passions and studied in Paris with Ravel and was unequalled in his generosity to young musicians? That vision?

Vaughan Williams' vision of Englishness is not the one we need

The composer dominates the BBC Proms this year, the 150th anniversary of his birth. But if this is our national music, it is a toothless pastiche.

www.newstatesman.com

36

50

314

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

Since it’s Advent, it’s a good time to listen to Bach’s Advent Cantatas, start with BWV 61, “Nun komm, der heiden Heiland” (Weimar, 1714)

2

48

299

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

First outing for a new suit last night; according to a friend I look, as he so lovingly put it, like "a disgraced minor royal."

36

6

302

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 years

Tuesday evening. C-minor Sinfonia in three voices (J.S. Bach)

12

63

303

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

I realise this seems fun to share, but this is the head of state of a European country who also spread false information and panic — arguably a prosecutable offence for ordinary people — about a UK-produced vaccine.

Pippa Crerar

@PippaCrerar

2 years

Emmanuel Macron: “The United Kingdom is a friendly nation, regardless of its leaders, sometimes in spite of its leaders”.

2K

10K

61K

13

52

289

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 years

J.S. Bach died on the 28th of July, 270 years ago. Instead of claiming that I’m celebrating him by drawing attention to my own playing, I’m going to encourage you to go and listen to his cantatas. Everything else by him is essentially a secondary work in relation to this genre.

18

46

279

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

I know it’s terribly un-woke and anti-progressive of me to celebrate the 4th of July, but if my family and I hadn’t gotten exit visas to leave Iran to come to the USA, I am fairly confident that one or more of us would be dead by now. There’s really no other way to say this.

5

24

277

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

Thank you, my friends. You are all beautiful people. Exhausted and happy at Heathrow (concert tomorrow night in Vienna).

16

9

271

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

It doesn’t really get much better than the Matthew Passion in the place where it was premiered with the ensemble at one time directed by its composer, does it?

10

13

270

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

I don’t mind if this loses me followers or earns me enemies: Every one of these people is responsible when you as a musician have to spend inordinate amounts of money on COVID tests and on quarantining.

Julian Druker

@Julian5News

3 years

Thousands of Scotland fans now in Leicester Square #ENGSCO

76

119

512

19

33

268

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

I needed to get this off my chest. You need to know the trauma that we have felt not only for 43 years as Iranians, but indeed for over a millennium. You need to be aware of the trauma that was visited principally on Iranian women, who are now fighting back. THREAD of 2 parts

17

94

250

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

Just received the news that I’ve been granted permanent residency of the Czech Republic. 🇨🇿 Time to celebrate !

31

1

257

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

6 months

OK I found the one I want

16

23

252

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

The inventor of what is now called the piano(forte), the great Bartolomeo Cristofori was born on this day in 1655 in Padua. Since Schubert wrote for your instrument...all is forgiven.

1

56

247

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

Just for comparison, this is approximately 80% of how long it takes on the X5 bus from Oxford to Cambridge

9

251

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 months

On the same day I bought some beautiful black cowboy boots in Texas, I realised that somehow I hadn’t packed my dress shoes. So I played a Bach concerto in cowboy boots and I’ll tell you — I’m never going back to concert shoes again!

14

7

252

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

6 years

Are we *still* having this argument about people clapping in between movements? Heck, I had a whole hall applaud DURING the first movement of Brandenburg 5. This musician doesn’t care when you clap. I promise.

21

47

244

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

14 days

In less than 24 hours we have over 1200 signatories including Fabio Luisi, Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Paavo Järvi, Michala Petri, Nicholas Daniel, Gautier Capuçon, et al. @DannyDriver_ and I will publish a full list soon

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

15 days

A rather long thread. Last night, when we heard the news of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw cancelling two concerts of the Jerusalem Quartet due to the current geopolitical situation, we were shocked. I texted my friend @DannyDriver_ and within about 20 minutes we got this going:

42

579

2K

6

44

242

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

the absolute best statue of J.S. Bach (Arnstadt, Thüringen)

22

26

235

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

I learnt about 20 minutes before I was to go on stage tonight that my friend @lars_vogt had some time before gone to meet his maker. Godspeed, my dear Lars. If I manage to lead a good life as you did, we’ll eventually play that C.P.E. Bach double concerto to the composer himself.

5

6

231

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

Let’s be honest: who was hoping yesterday in the final statement of the late Queen’s titles that the herald would have just thrown in the claim to the throne of France?

19

16

228

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

8 months

On my last two trips to Israel, I had the pleasure of teaching and coaching several young Israeli musicians. When I came offstage at Wigmore tonight and turned my phone on, there were messages from all of them. That means a lot to me.

2

6

215

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

8 months

When I was 12, George Malcolm sat me down next to the harpsichord after he played Bach's d-minor concerto; and two nights ago, I sat down with a young aspiring musician after playing - would you believe it - Bach's d-minor concerto.

10

14

215

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

When I left the U.S. in 2007, this harpsichordist couldn’t get even the tiniest back-desk gig. On Saturday I have my 3rd solo recital for the Bach Festival in Leipzig and it is, again, sold out. I know I complain now and then but this is one of those moments to breathe and smile.

6

7

210

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

5 months

I'm Czech now.

13

7

208

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Someone please tell me why it's fashionable amongst a certain crowd to seem musically sophisticated by putting down RVW. Everything I know of this man as both a composer and as a human reveals him to be one of the great heroes of the history of our art form.

Vaughan Williams Foundation

@VWFndn

1 year

The letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams reveal much about his music and his character, as well as the times he lived in... many of the issues discussed feel relevant today...

16

105

400

8

19

204

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

Herbert Howells is a funny one, isn’t he? Doesn’t seem like much on the page; starts in an unassuming way, but by the end — if you’ve any heart — you’re a runny mess. I really must get to know his music better.

18

9

202

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

Born 150 years ago today. If there is a more wilfully misunderstood composer, I know him not.

17

19

203

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 years

this past year, we lost one of the finest humans I’ve ever known and ever will know - ( @leboyfriend ) from COVID-19. Do not ask me to have empathy for those who spread misinformation and clownery about this disease. Instead, remember, this man.

The Whispered Spell of the Clavichord

A cherished friend and a historic keyboard instrument have given me a new way of listening.

www.newyorker.com

14

36

200

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

I think this is as perfect an example as there can exist of why schools without arts programmes are bleak places. Also, I imagine Prince would be feeling very happy about this; if you don’t know that public music-making is part of his legacy, then you should read more about him.

L E F T, PhD ⚫️

@LeftSentThis

3 years

Let’s work!

176

1K

5K

5

46

198

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 month

@DrMichaelBonner Horrific, isn’t she?

1

0

192

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 months

As it is Good Friday, I implore you to accept -- and I cannot stress this enough -- no substitutes.

15

22

191

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

10 months

According to an e.mail from my lawyer, I've been made a citizen of the Czech Republic today (of course I have to still take the oath). Since 1987, I have spent my life in immigration offices. This is a good day.

22

4

191

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

Second time I’m playing a concerto in this hall @bbcproms so I really never wish to hear that “there can be no harpsichord concertos in big spaces.”

8

188

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

9 months

Zuzana Ruzickova's 1951 Ammer harpsichord, which she left to me in her will, has finally been restored after years of research and work. I cannot believe that I can again hear the instrument that was the soundtrack of my formative years and that now I can make music with it.

12

17

187

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Today on a brief little jaunt to Amsterdam I met the legendary Dutch harpsichordist Anneke Uittenbosch -- still strong and very, very funny in her 90s.

10

6

186

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

We are all toddlers now.

23

46

184

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 years

Pretty sure playing the 1st part of Clavier-Übung at Bach’s grave in the Thomaskirche is the best thing I will ever do with my life. Thank you @bachleipzig #bachfest #bachmarathon — the energy of this great city saved the BachFest in these trying times. I will never forget this.

3

19

175

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 years

Good night. Sinfonia in three voices in e-minor (J.S. Bach).

7

34

169

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

This is how you handle these situations

10

17

172

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

I remember when I was a kid that my parents would get these out *only* at very important dinners, one per adult.

21

2

173

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

I am 38 years old. I have not been in the country of my birth since 1996. Moreover, I have not been there with both of my parents at the same time since, believe it or not, 1986. When Iran is free, the first thing i will do is to go there with both of them.

6

7

172

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

People ask me why I adopted Britain as my country in spite of my being fairly international. The answer is simple: it is to this moment the only place in my life that said, “you are one of us.” There is no question to me that the nature of its monarchy is the root of this.

5

11

171

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 months

I will never feel OK clapping at the conclusion of a Passion by Bach (or indeed anyone else); it feels absolutely wrong.

31

5

170

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Our industry is a funny one. We complain that popular culture takes no notice of classical music; and then when there's a major Hollywood film about it, we complain that they made it.

12

10

169

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

Tomorrow I will play the entirety of the first book of J.S. Bach’s 48 and then I will collapse. So...yeah, that’s what I’m doing this week.

7

23

164

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

Happy birthday, big lad

0

11

161

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 years

Thanks to @BojanCicic for sharing what I need to study next:

3

34

159

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

5 months

To all of you, wherever you may be, a very happy start to a new year. May 2024 bring all blessings and peace for which we forever are in hope.

12

0

161

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, I consider it a very great miracle that throughout the experience of three concentration camps, Zuzana Růžičková made it out alive. I consider it the greatest honour of my life to have studied with her and known her in the last 6 years of her life.

3

14

158

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

7 months

"I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed." Gustav Mahler

5

33

156

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

Well, I’ll be damned. They put my recording of Bach’s Partitas (as ever for the @hyperionrecords ) on the shortlist for a Gramophone Award.

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2022 shortlist is revealed!

Read the reviews of the 72 albums shortlisted for this year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards in our free digital magazine

www.gramophone.co.uk

8

7

154

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Happy 132nd birthday to Bohuslav Martinů, the composer who fulfilled the dream of Czech music to be truly cosmopolitan (and who for that reason is still underappreciated). I truly adore his music.

8

10

151

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Only in Britain can tradition and the changes in society combine so seamlessly where one of Bishops of the realm is British-Iranian and is at today's coronation. I am so proud beyond words, and think of Iranians who've found in Britain a place of refuge and understanding.

Guli Francis-Dehqani

@Guli_FD

1 year

Today as I attend the #Coronation I remember too my late brother, giving thanks for his life and praying for Anglicans in Iran.

25

72

353

3

17

155

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

😬😬😬😬😬😬

17

4

155

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

This comes across as #humblebrag but this Saturday I play the 22nd and final concert over the past few years of all the works of J.S. Bach at @wigmore_hall and, well, I had never thought I’d be able to internalise so much music by the composer who has defined my life the most.

13

5

154

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

OK I knew there were some shortages but Jesus, let’s get a grip here

7

32

153

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

The Prague to Zürich night train, eminently comfortable with one's own cabin and breakfast included, was exactly 100 euros.

3

9

150

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Warning! An overly long rant disguised as a thread. 🧵 The performatively progressive amongst us are so used to calling the UK nasty little Brexit island, etc., that we forget actually the relevance of the BBC and its various arts branches to those of us who are not British…/

6

33

152

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

Today is the birthday of Antonio Vivaldi (b. 1678), a composer I totally did not take seriously until I read Michael Talbot’s magnificent critical biography for OUP and saw in his concise analysis just what it is that made him respected by J.S. Bach. I think him now a genius.

9

19

150

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

This is like the last scene of Götterdämmerung but with banjos, basically.

7

33

147

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

People of London! I will be back with you to perform Bach’s Art of Fugue in its entirety at @wigmore_hall on the 16th of July, after which I will be receiving the incredibly great honour of the Wigmore Hall Medal. 🥇

13

22

146

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

I have a good many relatives who are imprisoned in a country not dissimilar to North Korea, which has made a country into a prison camp whose inmates are kept at subsistence level. Please, whatever your views, keep in mind that these are sick comparisons to make.

9

16

149

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

@razaraz Sorry, but they are — we have been victims of this religion and ideology for far too long. Western observers can say what they like and you would do well to use your academic authority for better things than to constantly apologise for this religion against your countrymen.

8

11

137

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

Actual video footage of what happens if you have a memory lapse in the middle of a Bach fugue

World Bollard Association™

@WorldBollard

2 years

Keep on trucking… #WorldBollardAssociation

192

863

5K

11

24

146

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 month

I first played Bach's Goldberg Variations in September of 2009 and only tonight do I finally feel I played it in such a way that would have made her proud.

10

5

147

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

It’s been a month since I’ve (re-)taken up my new hobby, an instrument on which I’ll never reach a point of any serious competence but one which (a) reminds me of the joy felt by an amateur and (b) reminds me how good we keyboardists have it compared to string players.

9

4

145

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

The @guardian beat me to it. I’ve a new album out on @hyperionrecords that continues my work with all of J.S. Bach’s keyboard music. Just so you know it’s serious, they’ve used my “bollocking face” photo.

Classical home listening: more Bach from Mahan Esfahani; Lisa Batiashvili’s Secret Love Letters

Esfahani and harpsichord take wing in the Italian Concerto while violinist Lisa Batiashvili taps into private passions in Franck, Szymanowski and more

www.theguardian.com

7

16

143

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

Sort of cool to be performing a few feet away from C.P.E. Bach tonight

6

139

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

4 years

One of the things I don’t miss about living in England is a class system so ingrained that 16-year old privately-educated organ scholars will talk down to me for being a ‘highly affected’ player.

10

5

144

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

2 years

This is my last tweet of the night because I am moved beyond words to see Iran's Crown Prince and heir to the Peacock Throne actually calling on compatriots to respect Iranian LGBT during this time. I am beyond emotional now to see this. I dreamt these days would come.

Reza Pahlavi

@PahlaviReza

3 years

در شرایطی که قوانین در ایران به جای محافظت از حقوق دگرباشان، آزار و مجازات‌شان را توجیه می‌کند، از هم‌میهنانم، خصوصا کسانی که به من اعتماد و علاقه دارند، می‌خواهم به محافظت و حمایت از آنها در جامعه بپردازند. #علیرضا_فاضلی_منفرد

341

2K

9K

4

22

135

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

1 year

My grandfather died 6 years ago on this day. I realise these points seem minor, but from him I learnt how to peruse a booksellers’, how to argue a point, and what to discuss when having a suit tailored. How I wish he could have seen the end of this dark regime in Iran.

4

5

140

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

5 years

The new leader (that’s first of the first violins for the uninitiated!) of the Czech Philharmonic was announced on television last night and is the chatter of two coffeehouses I visited this morning. This is the country I live in.

8

4

141

Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی

@MahanEsfahani

3 years

Sorry to hear of the death of Igor Oistrakh. One of my prized albums has always been his recording (with dad David) of the marvellous C-Major trio sonata of Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, once attributed to J.S. Bach (as BWV 1037). Whoever wrote it, it’s still a great piece.

3

23

137