TEHRAN-Nava-ye Aftab orchestra led by Amin Salemi will perform a selection of famous movie soundtracks at Tehran’s Milad Tower on June 20.

Nava-ye Aftab (literally meaning sound of sun) will deliver a new arrangement of 17 soundtracks from well-known films of Iran and world cinema, ISNA reported.

The orchestra comprises musicians playing a wide range of Iranian, classical, and pop instruments. The Iranian instruments include tar, oud, santur, daf, and tonbak, which are accompanied by violin, flute, piano, guitar, harmonica, saxophone, drums, and percussion as classical and pop instruments.

The concert repertoire consists of soundtracks from three Iranian movies and 14 foreign films. The Iranian pieces include the soundtracks for Ali Hatami’s drama “Kamalolmolk” (1984) and Kayhan Rahgozar’s series “Bu Ali Sina” (1985), both composed by Farhad Fakhreddini, renowned Iranian composer, conductor and founder of Iran's National Orchestra.

The foreign pieces include the soundtracks of Sergio Leone’s western “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (1966) and Giuseppe Tornatore’s drama “Cinema Paradiso” (1988), both composed by renowned Italian composer and orchestrator Ennio Morricone; Francis Ford Coppola’s crime “The Godfather” (1972) composed by Italian composer and pianist Nino Rota; Ridley Scott’s “1492: Conquest of Paradise” (1992) composed by celebrated Greek musician and composer Vangelis; Luc Besson’s action/crime “Léon: The Professional” (1994) composed by French composer Éric Serra; and the fantasy-drama series “Game of Thrones” (2011-2019) composed by the Iranian-German film score composer and conductor Ramin Djawadi.

The pieces have received new arrangement for orchestra by Amin Salemi, Firouz Veysanlou, and Mohammadreza Aghaei.

In its last concert, Nava-ye Aftab orchestra performed famous Persian love songs in the past five decades in Tehran.

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