Pent-up passion marks this rousing musical journey from Toronto’s Reza Manbachi and his Chakavak Ensemble, tracing what the liner notes describe as “an intoxicating love story between the soul and ...

One of the most distinctive and least-known musical groups in the Washington area is the Chakavak Ensemble, which gave a concert of Persian music Monday evening in the Corcoran Gallery under the ...

Only one kind of instrument, the violin, looked familiar in Monday evening's program at the Corcoran Gallery, and even it produced sounds never imagined by Bach or Beethoven. In a program of Persian ...