Mi yemalel was published as Confitemini Domino, a motet with Latin text in Bassano’s Concerti Ecclesiastici (Venice, 1599), but two things led me to make this arrangement. The first is that although Bassano was a cornetto player at the Cathedral of San Marco in Venice, he was almost certainly Jewish. He was cousin to the Bassanos in the royal wind band in England, and they are known to have been Jewish. The second thing is that the text is a setting of Psalm 106, which extols the bravery of the Maccabees and is sung frequently at Hanukkah. It occurred to me that Bassano may have chosen to set this psalm because of its connection to the Festival of Lights, and that, as a Jew, he may have had the Hebrew text in mind when he first sat down to write it.
Негізгі бет Mi yemalel, by Giovanni Bassano (arr. Ross W. Duffin), sung by Quire Cleveland
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