
Israeliana, Suite
Sheet Music
Israeliana, Suite for Orchestra : Score Only$52.00
Israeliana, Suite for Piano Solo$14.00
Israeliana, Suite for Violin and Piano : Full Set$26.00
A live recording from a concert at the YMCA music hall in Jerusalem (year unknown):
Shimon Mishori, Violin
Heinz Freudental, Conductor
Kol Israel Symphony Orchestra (The Broadcasting Service Orchestra)
Prelude – Flocks – Feast Dance – Hamsin (Heatwave) – Ancient Oriental Dance – Druze Dance
Note: Israliana was written for:
- Symphonic Orchestra
- Violin and Orchestra
- Violin and Piano
- Piano Solo
Publisher: The Marc Lavry Heritage Society
Synopsis:
Lavry wrote about his composition (translated from Hebrew):
I named my suite “Israeliana” because every part of it is connected in some way to the land of Israel. It is a non-pretentious album of impressions and pictures of the country. The suite is divided in the following way:
- Andante Maestoso – Prelude: A choral in a ethnic rhythm, kind of a slow Hora.
- Allegretto – Flocks: A picture of the flocks on the Galilee mountains and a shepherds’ dance.
- Allegretto – Feast Dance: Allegretto in six-eighth meter.
- Andante – Hamsin (Heatwave): Monotonous andante.
- Andante – Ancient Oriental Song: An arrangement of an ancient song I heard sung by Bracha Zfira.
- Allegro – Druze Dance: A Debka as I saw it being danced by young Druz men, masculine and war-like. The dance always excited me and I found that arranging it was emotionally cathartic.