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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 […]
2017-02-21 18:48:30
The next concert of Highgate Choral Society will take place on Saturday, 11 March 2017 at 7 pm at All Hallow’s Church, Savernake Road, Gospel Oak NW3 2JP. As our concert last March also this concert features English music. The concert begins with an orchestral work by Frederick Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden. For Sea Drift by Delius the chorus and Marcus Farnsworth as baritone soloist join the New London Orchestra. After the interval Edward Elgar’s The Music Makers follow. This blog post is about Elgar’s The Music Makers. Edward Elgar ‘s The Music Makers, Op. 69 is a work for contralto soloist or mezzo soprano soloist, chorus and orchestra. It consists of a single movement and lasts about 40 minutes. 1. Elgar set in The Music Makers the poem Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy (1844-1881) to music. O’Shaughnessy was a British poet of Irish descent. […]
2016-04-04 13:00:30
Monday, April 4, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. The Classical Music Almanac is produce through True Men Ministries. You can donate to True Men Ministries and help keep this blog as well as the podcast going! Thanks! Birthdays Hans Richter In 1843 Hans Richter was born. He was born in Raab , Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father was good local composer, conductor and regens chori Anton Richter. His mother was opera-singer Jozefa Csazenszky. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory. He had a particular interest in the horn, and developed his conducting career at several different opera houses in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He became associated with Richard Wagner in the 1860s, and in 1876 he was chosen to conduct the first complete performance of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. In 1877, he assisted the ailing […]
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