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Daniel Akiva - Compositions

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 Guitar Solo
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 3 Guitars
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 Voice and Guitar
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 Flute Solo
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 Recorder Solo
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 Piano Solo
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 Guitar and Piano
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 Trio: Oboe, Guitar and Cello
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 Mezzo Soprano and Strings Orchestra
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 Children Choir and Chamber Orchestra
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 Mezzo Soprano, Piano and Cello
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 Children Choir, Narrator, Guitar, Recorder and Percussion
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 Choir for equal voices    

 

Guitar Solo
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 Psalms Mel Bay (in prep.)
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 Hakafot - prelude Manu.
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 Suite Romancero Mel Bay (in prep.)
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 Noches Noches Mel Bay (in prep.)
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 Piutim - Liturgical Songs Mel Bay (in prep.)
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 Where to? - Prelude Manu.
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 3 Preludes after Messiaen Manu.
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3 Guitars
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 5 Sefaradic songs Mel Bay (in prep.)
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Voice and Guitar
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 Jewish - Spanish Song Cycle - Ladino OR-TAV
Six different songs are arranged from the Ladino repertory. "La serana", "Durme, durme", and "Durme hermozo hijico" are lullabies. "La serana" belongs to the oldest layer of lyric songs, whereas the other two songs are recent. "Como la rosa" is a cantiga (lyric love song), and "Ya vien en cativo", a romance, belongs to the genre of captive songs, and can be dated to the middle ages. "Ya abaxa la movia" is a wedding song of the Balkan Jews.
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 Songs by Rivka Miriam - Hebrew Manu.
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 3 Songs by F.G. Lorca - Hebrew: R. Eliaz Manu.
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 Amnon Shamosh: 2 Songs: "Where to?", "Gan Na'ul" - Hebrew Manu.
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Flute Solo
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 3 Pieces: Piut, Romansa, Cantiga OR-TAV
The three pieces in this collection are each based upon a different Sepharadic source. "Liturgical Song" is based upon a piut (religious poem) for Yom Kippur of the Sepharadic Jews of Haifa. "Silvana" is a romance and "Ven kerida" is a cantiga (strophic song) of the Sepharadic Jews of Turkey. The Three Pieces for Flute Solo were premiered by Michael Meltzer in 1989 and in 1996. The work is recorded on the Compact disc Siniza i fumo.
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 4 Sefaradic Songs Manu.
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Recorder Solo
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 Litanies Manu.
A single prayer divided into three parts. In the first part there is a transition from recitatives to dance movements; the second part integrates meditation passages with "bursts" of feelings. The third part is a type of dance integrated with a liturgical poem. Litanies was premiered by Michael Meltzer in 1997. The work is recorded on the compact disc Siniza i fumo.
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Piano Solo
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 Suite Sefaradite OR-TAV
Based on six folk melodies of different communities of Sepharadic Jews. "No me puso mi madre" is a wedding song of the Bulgarian Jews ("the face of the bride is like the face of the moon"). "El juicio de Salomon" ("The judgment of King Solomon") is a medieval romance, as sung by the Jews of Tangier, Moroco. "Morena me llaman" is a wedding song influenced by the Spanish canción. "Ya m'enamori d'un aire" ("I fell in love with the charms") is a cantiga, a newer form of lyric song. "Noches Noches" ("Nights, nights") is a medieval romance as sung by the Jews of Yugoslavia. "Esta montaña" ("This Mountain") is a love song in cantiga form.
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Guitar and Piano
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 Cantigas Manu.
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Trio: Oboe, Guitar and Cello
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 Slichot IBWP
Was inspired  by the penitential poems of the Sepharadic Jews for the High Holidays. The composition is a series of dialogues between the three instruments. The dialogues include confrontation, reconciliation, and agreement, three traits of human behavior. The first movement begins with solo oboe which introduces the first theme. The second theme is introduced by a meditative motive played by the guitar and based upon the melody of the poem "As a servant longs" by the year has ended with its curses", expressed reconciliation and agreement, and is based upon the melody of the poem whose name is bears. Towards the end of the movement, the Neilah motive of the first movement returns as the motive for the blessing which concludes the work.
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Mezzo Soprano and Strings Orchestra
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 "Sarina Kanta" - Ladino song cycle (Rental fee). IBWP
Sung in Ladino and was inspired by Sepharadic folk songs. Various folk songs are quoted in the work. The first movement, "Dia y noche" ("Day and night") is based upon a cantiga (lyric love song). The second movement is a fantasia base upon a poem by Avner Perez, "Sarina kanta romansas", ("Sarina sings romances"). Sarina is Perez's grandmother, whose memory is recalled in this cycle of poems. The third movement was originally a romance of the Sepharadic Jews from Turkey, "Una matika de ruda" ("A spring of Rue"), which over time turned into a cantiga. The fourth movement, "Ya abasha la novia" ("The bride is coming down"), is a humorous wedding song. The fifth movement is a lullaby with a violin obbligato part. The cylcle concludes with "Yal salio de la mar" ("Her she comes from the sea"), a wedding song.
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Children Choir and Chamber Orchestra
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 "Siniza i Fumo" - Poems by Avner Perez.(Rental fee). Maale Adumin Institute
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Mezzo Soprano, Piano and Cello
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 "Chairs in the desert" - Songs by Rivka Miriam. Manu.
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Children Choir, Narrator, Guitar, Recorder and Percussion
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 "Ola mimidbar" ("Coming from the desert") - Poems by Avner Perez - Hebrew Manu.
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Choir for equal voices
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 2 Songs by Rivka Miriam: "Me'ayin", "Hagshamim hazkenim" - Hebrew  
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