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FULL MISSA TERRA SANCTA (Noam Sharif) Tel Aviv 2018 Tom Ben Ishai
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Missa Terra Sancta
- Composer: Noam Sharif)
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
- Recorded: May 24, 2018
- Type: Concert Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
A Mass for the Holy Land, the last work by composer Noam Sheriff, winner of the Israel Prize, was written especially for the Israeli Vocal Ensemble. The work is bilingual-sung in Latin and Hebrew, as well as bi-religious, Christian and Jewish, and was inspired by the composer’s visit to the Solesmes Abbey in France, the center of Gregorian chant culture. This visit reinforced in Sheriff the understanding that Gregorian music, based in part on pentatonic scales, is remarkably similar to the Biblical Hebrew Cantillation accents. These connections and others are expressed in the unique work.
From the Composer:
“Missa Terra Sancta represents the religious belief whatever it is, in its basic and fundamental conception in which the believer casts an anchor in the stormy sea of life to find a haven. It is based on the common origins from which these texts derive. Like in many of my previous works, among which are wide-ranging ones such as the Resurrection of the Dead, the Sephardic Passion or the Psalms of Jerusalem – which are based on the various Jewish liturgy, I would like to express the deepest and most ancient foundation of the universal faith also in Missa Terra Sancta.
Anyone who listens to Gregorian chant cannot help but hear the clear musical connection to ancient Jewish piyyut and Biblical Hebrew Cantillation accents – in the pentatonic background and in the free rhythm.