Avinu malkenu (Avino malken)

A litany consisting of a series of one-phrase petitions opening with the fixed formula Avinu malkenu ("Our Father, our King"), recited during the seliḥot service, and after the repetition of the 'amidah for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The recording includes the three last petitions of the most common Sephardi version of this text. The basis for the composition is a traditional melody that is elaborated by the cantor using virtuoso vocal resources such as long sustained notes and fast melodic passages from register to register. The style recalls that of the singing of some Greek and Judeo-Spanish ballads. Haim's recording is nominally in makam Hüseyni but ends on Hicaz, a very unusual modal turn in Turkish classical music.