Bahá’í Music Store

Welcome home to the Bahá’í Music Store

It’s wonderful to have you here again.

For many years, the Bahá’í Music Store has been a place to find devotional songs, children’s music, audio books and the work of Bahá’í-inspired artists from around the world. So when the store went dark for a couple of months, we know many of you wondered what had happened.

Here is the honest answer. We were not hacked, your data is safe, and the store was never closing. The server that hosted us failed catastrophically and destroyed the website and all its files. Thankfully, the store’s databases, including your account, your order history and your past purchases, survived completely intact, and no personal information was ever exposed.

We have rebuilt the store on a brand-new, faster and more secure home, and it is so good to open the doors again. Thank you for waiting for us, and for every song, prayer and story you have shared with your families and communities through this store.

Can’t find something you bought before? Please reach out. Contact us with what you’re looking for, and we will get back to you as soon as we possibly can to make sure you have it.

With love and gratitude,

Jon
on behalf of everyone at the Bahá’í Music Store
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Richard Leigh

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I am a British composer and much of the inspiration for my music is drawn from folk, classical and sacred traditions, especially the Bahá'í writings.

Works include — MYRIADS (2001) — 9 settings of The Hidden Words of Baha’u'llah, weaving Persian and Arabic chant, Tibetan prayer bowls, SATB choir, harp, prepared piano and percussion. SEED (2010)- a CD of 12 settings of Baha’i prayers and writings. RIVERS (2013 - To be released soon!) — which weaves a tapestry of poetry & scripture from 8 of the worlds great religions for SATB choir and ensemble, virtual choir and moving image.

My earliest music is mostly instrumental, from Toccata e Fantasia (1991) for piano & orchestra written for Leslie Howard, to the earthy world & folk inspired music for the groups Mapaluna, Finality Jack, Pipers 3, Kai & Zingaresque.

However the year 1999 proved to be the turning point. As well as investigating the Baha’i writings at the time, I was influenced by a trip to Swaziland in southern Africa, where I made recordings of peoples every day singing, from children to a lady of 110 years. This has inspired me to explore the uninhibited physical joy for the human voice into my music making.

I have also written a significant amount of educational music such as Hurdy-Gurdy (2004) written for over 300 young string players and percussionists from beginner to advanced, The Gauymi Dawn Song (2012) based on a Native American Guaymi text. I co-direct Zingaresque, the Northamptonshire County World Music Ensemble, which I formed in 1994.

I was born in Liverpool in 1967 & now live in Northamptonshire with my wife, and 3 daughters.


Albums by Richard Leigh

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Seed

Richard Leigh 

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