Hosha'na Rabbah in Casale Monferrato 1732.
Works from the 18th century repertory of the communities of Amsterdam: cantatas and choral works; and Casale Monferrato: A Musical Ceremony for Hosha'na Rabbah, from 1732.
Program brochure for the gala concert and modern world premiere of Oratorio Ester, The Salvation of Israel by C. G. Lidarti (music) and Rabbi Jacob Raphael Saraval (libretto), May 30th and 31st, 2000. Includes the Hebrew libretto with Englsih translations and short articles about the composer, the oratorio, music in the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam and the discovery of the manuscript in 1997.
Documentary. English.
Director, script, editor: Tlalim, Asher
Executive Producer: Jochsberger, Tzipora
Hebrew version
Complete film on Youtube, courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Virtual Cinema:
Covers the emergence of the practice of Western Art Music in European Jewish communities (Italy, Southern France, Amsterdam) prior to the nineteenth century. Includes detailed descriptions of the repertoires, their contexts of performance and their composers. This work manifests the implicit desire of Jewish music scholars to inscribe a Jewish presence in the predominant Christian and Eurocentric music narrative of modern Musicology.
Martin Ruhnke was a German musicologist. His main areas of research were the music theory of early baroque music, Italian baroque opera and the life and work of Georg Philipp Telemann.
Full biography at Wikipedia.