Program

I. Mantua: The Ghetto & the Palace

SALAMONE ROSSI HEBREO (1570-1630)

Selections from the Sonate, Sinfonie & Gagliarde (Books 2, 3 & 4)

Sonata no. 12 sopra la Bergamasca Sonata in Dialogo detta la Viena

Galliarda à4 detta la Zambalina

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)

O come, sei gentile (Madrigals, Book 7) - Ashlee Foreman & Jacob Perry

II. Synagogue & Chapel

ABRAHAM DE CACERES (fl. 1718-1740)

Hamesiach (Hebrew Prayer) - Jacob Perry & Jeffrey Strauss

BENEDETTO MARCELLO (1686-1739) - Selections from Psalm 15 (Estro poetico-armonico, vol. 3, 1724)

Signor dall’ empia gente (Lord, save me from evil people)

Ma’oz Tzur (Hebrew chant) - Jeffrey Strauss

Della vita il retto calle (The right path of life) - Daniel Moody

GIUSEPPE SAMMARTINI (1695-1750)

Concerto in F Major for Flautino (soprano recorder) - Daphna Mor, recorder

Allegro | [Largo] | Allegro assai

– Short Pause (10’) –

III. Venice: The Ghetto & the Church

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)

Allegro from Sinfonia alla Rustica, RV 151

ALESSANDRO MARCELLO (1673-1747) Concerto no. 4 in E minor, from La Cetra - Alan Choo & Emi Tanabe, violin

Moderato | Largo | Allegro

BENEDETTO MARCELLO

Selections From Psalm 18 (Estro poetico-armonico, vol. 3, 1724)

Sha’ar Asher Nisgar (Hebrew chant) - Jeffrey Strauss

O immacolata e pura Legge (O perfect and divine law) - Daniel Moody, Jacob Perry, Jeffrey Strauss

IV. Passover & Purim

Karev Yom (Hasidic Passover song, attributed to the Baal Shem Tov) “At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt”

Coplas de Purim (On this Night of Purim) – trad. Sephardic/Moroccan

Siete modos de guisar las berenjenas (Seven ways to cook eggplant) – trad. Sephardic, arr. Sorrell/Schiffer