Elleh Mo'adei adonai

Salamone Rossi's motet Elleh Mo'adei adonai sets a passage from Leviticus, proclaiming "These are the appointed times of the Lord, sacred gatherings, which you shall proclaim at their appointed time." The Hebrew text speaks of holy convocations and the sacred ordering of time within Jewish tradition. This SAT setting by Rossi, a significant composer of the Jewish Renaissance, offers a chance to explore music from a period where composers often moved between sacred and secular genres, and between Jewish and Christian musical idioms. The motet is a rich example of the sacred music composed by Jewish artists in Italy during the 17th century.