Moultaka ملتقى - Zikr ذكر - El Hage الحاج

Zad Moultaka (composer) زاد ملتقى
Zikr - ذكر (pour contralto, choeur mixte et ensemble instrumental)

Fadia Tomb El-Hage (contralto) فادية طنب الحاج
Les Elements (choeur de chambre)
Ars Nova (Ensemble instrumental)

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Material featured in the video:

Raffaello Sanzio (b. 1483, Urbino, d. 1520, Roma) - "Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (La Disputa)" [1510-1511] [Fresco, width at the base: 770 cm - Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican]

Rogier van der Weyden (b. 1400, Tournai, d. 1464, Bruxelles) - "Deposition" [c. 1435] [Oil on oak panel, 220 x 262 cm - Museo del Prado, Madrid]

Name of Allah written in the style of Arabic calligraphic script by 17th century Ottoman artist Hâfız Osman حافظ عثمان

Snapshots of sculptures of weeping angels on tombs.

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In his first work to be composed directly after the release of Zarani, the Lebanese composer Zad Moultaka collaborates again with the Lebanese contralto Fadia Tomb El-Hage on the present work Zikr.

With its beginning inspired by Monteverdi's Selva Morale, in homage to the Flemish vocal ensemble Ex Tempore, specialised in Renaissance and Baroque music and which gave the first performance, Zikr can turn into a Syriac monody, integrating quartertones, or into a chorus of lamentations. Moreover, the project of synthesis (between East and West) is still quite clear here. The word "Zikr" designates, in particular to the Sufis, 'an exercise in piety consisting of repeating the divine name in view of remembering God and, at the same time, reminding Him of you in hopes of attracting His benediction.' This ritual seeks to take one out of oneself and can implement 'a highly elaborate breath technique that may result in the state of annihilation known as fanà الفناء, which consists of total absorption in God.' Clearly, this is quite a programme which Zad Moultaka tries to reconcile with another, equally precise, programme drawn from the Christian tradition. In fact, the sung text constitutes of a montage of Latin texts relating Mary's suffering in a highly expressive, linear manner.
(Introduction to an analysis of the work by Makis Solomos, translated by Tyler Tuttle).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Zad
• Moultaka
• زاد
• ملتقى
• Fadia
• Tomb
• El-Hage
• فادية
• طنب
• الحاج
• contemporary
• classical
• music
• Sufi
• صوفي
• Sufism
• الصوفية
• Saint
• Mary
• suffering
• crucifiction
• Stabat
• Mater

[airboy879]

Esta música está genial!!

[daniel0azar]

Me alegro de que usted lo aprecia! :)

[natureschild1]

Impressive, thank you. El-Hage's voice is fantastic!

[cedarsoflebanon2]

A lebanese composer called Zad Moultaka with Fadia Tomb el Hage.

[bbgberina]

I am spellbound...who is this?