Mahler Chamber Orchestra
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Swedish Radio Choir
(chorus master Frederik Malmberg)
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Daniel Harding
conductor
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Julia Kleiter
soprano
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Bernarda Fink
alto
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Michael Schade
tenor
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Thomas Quasthoff
baritone
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
"Elijah", Op. 70. Oratorio after words from the Old Testament
Felix Mendelssohn wanted to depict a prophet who was “of the kind we could really use today” as the hero of his great new oratorio: “Strong, zealous, even bad-tempered, angry, and brooding—in contrast to the rabble, whether in the court or among the common people, indeed at odds with the whole world and yet borne aloft as if on angels’ wings.” He found his ideal in the steadfast figure of Elijah, who, amid a prejudiced world, holds true to his faith and works miracles; who brings a dead child back to life; who ends a dreadful drought and famine with the miraculous summons of rain; who exposes the shady priests of Baal as charlatans. Mendelssohn was preoccupied with this project for nearly a decade before it was first performed in Birmingham in 1846—with nearly 300 choristers! The musical spectrum ranges from baroque formality to romantic, emotionally engaging settings. “Elijah” contains some of Mendelssohn’s finest vocal compositions, such as the splendid chorus, “For He shall give his angels charge over Thee.”
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