Ester, liberatrice del popolo ebreo (Esther, Liberator of the Jewish People) is a 1673 Italian-language oratorio by Alessandro Stradella. The only surviving manuscript lacks the original ritornellos and some closed numbers.[1] It was performed in Corpus Christi Catholic Church, New York City, in 1985,[2] and recorded by Italian early music group Il Concento, under Luca Franco Ferrari in 2001, later released on Brilliant Classics in 2012. The work was not performed again in New York City until 2019 and 2020, when it was produced and presented by Salon/Sanctuary Concerts at Brotherhood Synagogue,[3] garnering both scholarly[4] and critical praise[5] and for both outings.
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^Stradella: uomo di gran grido, p. 212: "Anche di Ester, liberatrice del popolo ebreo, la cui unica partitura rimastaci è incompleta (mancano i ritornelli e forse anche qualche numero chiuso), è possibile dare solo una valutazione parziale..."[full citation needed]
^The New Yorker, vol. 65 (1989), p. 91: "For some years, Music Before 1800, in Corpus Christi Church, has been offering Lenten delight with performances – the first in the city – of oratorios by Alessandro Stradella: Ester in 1985, San Giovanni Battista (an earlier version of the ..."[full citation needed]
^Chris Petitt (Fall 2019). "Stradella in the City"(PDF). Newsletter of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music. Vol. 29, no. 1. Retrieved 14 May 2024.