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French operatic soprano
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- soprano
- Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer, singer
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In search of Elijah: an exploration of the premiere of Mendelssohn's oratorio in Birmingham and its first performers
Birmingham Triennial Music Festival at the Town Hall in 1834 When I first heard Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah, in Manchester at the Halle in the 1970s, it was in a performance which gave the work a very traditional oratorio shape, four soloists, choir and orchestra, the work's awkward moments such as the trio 'Lift thine eyes' and the octet being sung by semi-chorus. What other way was there to perform it?It was only quite some years later that I discovered Wolfgang Sawallisch's recording with the Gewandhaus orchester Leipzig (on Philips), in German, which used eight soloists and had both quartets, the octet and the trio sung by solo voices. This intrigued me, and I began to wonder about Mendelssohn's original intentions. I gradually came to realised that Mendelssohn's work was predicated on rather more than four soloists, and that its 'awkward moments' (the two quartets, the octet and the […]
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