The Raritan Players

Jewish Musicians in 18th-century London

Yigdal (undated)

Myer Lyon (c. 1750–1797)

Se placar volete amore, from A Second Set of Italian and English Canzonetts (1785)

Harriett Abrams (c. 1762–1821)

Cello sonata Op. 2, No. 5 (ca. 1750)

Andantino

Allegro moderato

Minuet

Allegro grazioso

Giacobbe Basevi Cervetto (1680–1783)

See the Raging Flames Arise!, from Joshua (1747)

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)

Nanine, or the Emigrant, from To the Queen, With Her Majesty’s Most Gracious Permission This Work is Inscribed (1803)

Harriett Abrams

O the days when I was young!, from The Duenna (1775)

Thomas Linley the Elder (1733–1795) and Thomas Linley the Younger (1756–1778)

The Emigrant’s Grave, from To the Queen…

Harriett Abrams

Bendigamos (undated)

Spanish & Portuguese Sabbath Table Song

Cello sonata Op. 1, No. 4 (undated)

[No tempo indication]

Adagio

Allegro

James Cervetto (1748–1837)

Hope, from To the Queen…

Harriett Abrams

On Jordan’s Banks

From Hebrew Melodies, tune adapted from a sixteenth-century hymn

Isaac Nathan (1791–1864)

Come Now for Jest and Smiling

Soft Pity Never Leaves the Gentle Breast, from The Duenna

Thomas Linley the Elder and Thomas Linley the Younger