NAJI HAKIM (b.1955): Ouverture Libanaise, Suite Norvégienne, Esquisses Persanes, Suite Française, 3 Basque Dances.

Description: Colorful melodies, mostly folk-derived, colorfully delivered via the Schunke organ with the composer at the keyboards: several Lebanese melodies woven together in a seven-minute suite, nine melodies from popular Norwegian repertoire, a Persian scale and its transpositions, twelve French Renaissance and early Baroque dances and three Basque dances - all adding up to an hour’s worth of almost “light-music” fun. Naji Hakim (Schuke organ of the Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao).