Sacred Services from Israel
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'This is the best performed choral program I've come across in the Milken series.'
(American Record Guide)
“Their music is southern, suffused with brilliant
light, like the air of the Mediterranean lands,
translucent, striving for clarity—”
This description of the “Mediterranean style” in
music comes from the eminent critic Max Brod,
and it applies to varying degrees to the three sacred services featured here by Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim, Marc Lavry, and Yehezkel Braun. The popularity of their music owes much to the novelty of exotic sounds, idioms, and reflections of the land of Israel and of the wider Jewish orient, all finely crafted in the beloved forms of the Western
classical tradition. This is spiritual music that
easily transports the heart and senses to the Holy Land. All three services were commissioned and premiered in the United States.
1-6. BBC Singers; Spectrum/Avner Itai
7-15. Ernst Senff Choir; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Yoel Levi
16-21. Ernst Senff Choir; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/
Gerard Schwarz
Paul Ben-Haim
Kabbalat Shabbat (Friday Evening Service) (excerpts)
1. I. Introduction and Chorus: Psalm 98
2. II. Lighting of the Sabbath Candles
3. III. Sabbath Hymn, "l'kha dodi"
4. VII. Mi khamokha
5. IX. Hashkivenu
6. XV. Concluding Hymn and Benediction, "Adon olam"
Marc Lavry
Sabbath Eve Sacred Service (excerpts)
7. Prelude
8. I. Mizmor shir (Tov l'hodot)
9. Ia. Interlude
10. II. L'kha dodi
11. III. Bar'khu - sh'ma yisra'el
12. IV. V'ahavta
13. V. Mi khamokha
14. VI. V'sham'ru
15. VII. Yism'bu
Yehezkel Braun
Hallel Service (excerpts)
16. I. Preliminary b'rakha
17. II. Psalm 113
18. VI. Psalm 116:1 - 11
19. VIII. Psalm 117
20. IX. Psalm 118
21. X. Concluding b'rakha