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Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort - Felix Mendelssohn: Helias (Elijah) (2012) [Hi-Res]

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort - Felix Mendelssohn: Helias (Elijah) (2012) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: Felix Mendelssohn: Helias (Elijah)
  • Year Of Release: 2012
  • Label: Signum Records
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 48.0kHz +Booklet
  • Total Time: 02:15:57
  • Total Size: 571 mb / 1.28 gb
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Tracklist

CD1
01. Elijah, Op. 70: Introduction "As God the Lord of Israel Liveth"
02. Elijah, Op. 70: Overture
03. Elijah, Op. 70: "Help, Lord!" (Chorus)
04. Elijah, Op. 70: "Lord, Bow Thine Ear to Our Prayer!" (Duet With Chorus)
05. Elijah, Op. 70: "Ye People, Rend Your Hearts" (Recitative)
06. Elijah, Op. 70: "If With All Your Hearts" (Aria)
07. Elijah, Op. 70: "Yet Doth the Lord See It Not" (Chorus)
08. Elijah, Op. 70: "Elijah! Get Thee Hence, Elijah" (Recitative)
09. Elijah, Op. 70: "For He Shall Give His Angels" (Double Quartet)
10. Elijah, Op. 70: "Now Cherith's Brook Is Dried Up" (Recitative)
11. Elijah, Op. 70: "What Have I to Do With Thee" (Duet)
12. Elijah, Op. 70: "Blessed Are the Men Who Fear Him" (Chorus)
13. Elijah, Op. 70: "As God the Lord of Saboath Liveth" (Recitative & Chorus)
14. Elijah, Op. 70: "Baal, We Cry to Thee" (Chorus)
15. Elijah, Op. 70: "Call Him Louder, for He Is a God!" (Recitative & Chorus)
16. Elijah, Op. 70: "Call Him Louder! He Heareth Not" (Recitative & Chorus)
17. Elijah, Op. 70: "Lord God of Abraham" (Aria)
18. Elijah, Op. 70: "Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord" (Quartet)
19. Elijah, Op. 70: "O Thou, Who Makest" (Recitative & Chorus)
20. Elijah, Op. 70: "Is Not His Word Like a Fire" (Aria)
21. Elijah, Op. 70: "Woe Unto Them That Forsake Him!" (Aria)
22. Elijah, Op. 70: "O Man of God, Help Thy People!" (Recitative & Chorus)
23. Elijah, Op. 70: "Thanks Be to God!" (Chorus)

CD2
01. Elijah, Op. 70: "Hear Ye, Israel" (Aria)
02. Elijah, Op. 70: "Be Not Afraid, Saith God the Lord" (Chorus)
03. Elijah, Op. 70: "The Lord Hath Exalted Thee" (Recitative & Chorus)
04. Elijah, Op. 70: "Woe To Him, He Shall Perish" (Chorus)
05. Elijah, Op. 70: "Man of God" (Recitative)
06. Elijah, Op. 70: "It Is Enough!" (Aria)
07. Elijah, Op. 70: "See, Now He Sleepeth" (Recitative)
08. Elijah, Op. 70: "Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains" (Trio)
09. Elijah, Op. 70: "He, Watching Over Israel" (Chorus)
10. Elijah, Op. 70: "Arise, Elijah" (Recitative)
11. Elijah, Op. 70: "Oh Rest in the Lord" (Aria)
12. Elijah, Op. 70: "He That Shall Endure to the End" (Chorus)
13. Elijah, Op. 70: "Night Falleth Round Me, O Lord!" (Recitative)
14. Elijah, Op. 70: "Behold, God the Lord Passed By" (Chorus)
15. Elijah, Op. 70: "Above Him Stood the Seraphim" (Recitative)
16. Elijah, Op. 70: "Holy, Holy, Holy Is God the Lord" (Quartet & Chorus)
17. Elijah, Op. 70: "Go, Return Upon Thy Way!" (Chorus & Recitative)
18. Elijah, Op. 70: "For the Mountains Shall Depart" (Aria)
19. Elijah, Op. 70: "Then Did Elijah the Prophet Break Forth" (Chorus)
20. Elijah, Op. 70: "Then Shall the Righteous Shine Forth" (Aria)
21. Elijah, Op. 70: "Behold, God Hath Sent Elijah" (Recitative)
22. Elijah, Op. 70: "But the Lord, from the North" (Chorus)
23. Elijah, Op. 70: "O Come Everyone That Thirsteth" (Quartet)
24. Elijah, Op. 70: "The Shall Your Light Shine Forth" (Chorus)

Continuing his series of period re-creations of great choral music, Paul McCreesh presents an authentic version of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, imagined as it might have sounded in 1846. Previously, McCreesh has interpreted Berlioz's Grand Messe des Morts, Howell's Requiem, and the music of Gabrieli in A New Venetian Coronation 1595, and this recording of Elijah is a continuation of his project to put these masterworks in a historical context, not merely to imitate the instrumentation and techniques of the past. In this instance, McCreesh follows his research into the August 1846 performance of Elijah in Birmingham Town Hall, as well as what is known of the April 1847 performance in London's Exeter Hall, employing a large orchestra and a massive choir of approximately 300 voices. The Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir and the Gabrieli Consort join forces here, as they did earlier in the Berlioz recording, and the combined choirs are augmented by the Gabrieli Young Singers Scheme and multiple vocal soloists to make this recording equally impressive in richness and presence. The oratorio is presented on two CDs, which are packaged in a sturdy hardcover book with thorough liner notes, and the sound of the recording is big and spacious, with a roomy acoustic that gives the ensemble a sound that seems bigger than life.


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