Zamir explores rarely heard Jewish polyphony from the 17th and early 18th centuries: synagogue motets (and a few love songs) by Salamone Rossi Hebreo of Mantua, Cantata ebraica by Carlo Grossi of Venice, Louis Saladin’s Canticum Hebraicum, written for the Provençal Jewish community, excerpts from Giuseppe Lidarti’s oratorio Ester, composed in Hebrew for the Jewish community in Amsterdam, and more.
CD – $10