Ruhollah Khaleqi
Born to a cultivated family in Kerman in 1906, Ruhollah Khaleghi showed a precocious interest in music. He studied in Tehran, Shiraz, Esfahan, and again in Tehran. He managed to persuade his parents to buy a tar for him. After a while he went to study kamanche with Rahim Khan, and for a while with Reza Khan, known as Barbod. After Vaziri founded High School of Music in 1923, Khaleghi entered his school. He developed a far broader view of musical concepts there. Despite father's opposition, Khaleghi continued his musical studies. He studied violin, composition and harmony and became assistant to Ostad Vaziri. This led to some minor clashes with the head of music chamber, but Khaleghi claimed his right to establish the National Conservatoire, probably his greatest contribution to the music in Iran as general. Khaleghi stayed at the basement of the building and composed and edited numerous essays, articles, books for pedagogical purposes, of which The Story of Music in Iran enjoyed a huge success.
A man of discipline, he was also a hard-working author. His handwriting had an exceptional beauty, his memory was phenomenal, and he was a good orator as well. In music he was a true disciple of his beloved master, Vaziri. According to Vaziri, Khaleghi's style was truly academic based on their own mutual esthetic theories put forward to establish a new tradition.
Khaleghi had two children, Golnush and Farrokh. Golnush is an eminent musician and has conducted and recorded her father's legacy. She studied in Tehran, Salzburg and now resides in the US. She also has established there a Khaleghi Foundation which helps to promote the heritage of Iranian music as well as to preserve the legacy of Ruhollah Khaleghi.
Ruholla Khaleghi made several trips to foreign countries, from east to west, to share his musical experiences with other musicians from different countries. He went under an operation during one of his visits to Salzburg and died several years later, 1965.

Gholam-Hossein Banan
The legendary singer of Persian classical music was born in 1911 to a cultivated family. His mother played piano and his father was a calligrapher, a singer, and a musician, and his sisters were pupils of Morteza Ney-Davud who spotted him out. Afterwards he got familiar with dastgahs of Persian classical music through Zia'ozzakerin. From 1942 he went to radio and was approved by A.-N. Vaziri.
After the foundation of the Society of National Music by Khaleghi, Banan is invited to cooperate with the orchestra of the society.
His voice was of velvety character, very rich and truly delicate. He was especially noted for his total control over his voice in his melismatic figurations (tahrirs) in the classical avaz. Due to his scholarly knowledge of dastgahs of Persian classical music he could sing some remote and isolated gushehs without any difficulty. Banan was also familiar - to a certain extent - with organ and piano playing.
Of his large output, the majority are those songs and tasnifs performed with the orchestra of Golha in studios of national Iranian radio in the period just after 1957. Some of Golha programs with him as soloist are accompanied by such great masters as Morteza Mahjubi, Javad Ma`rufi, Reza Varzandeh, Mehdi Khaledi, Ali Tajvidi, Mehdi Tajbakhsh, Lotfollah Majd, Jalil Shahnaz, and Hasan Kasai.
A memorable and charismatic personality, Banan died in 1985 in Tehran.



Track List:

1-Golrizân
2-Khâmush
3-Gerye Kon
4-Vaide-ye Vesâl
5-Jâm-e Jahânbin
6-Yâr Ramide
7-Shab-e Javâni
8-Ey Iran