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Elijah

Add to my Calendar 02-12-2017 19:30 02-12-2017 21:30 36 Elijah Mendelssohn’s Elijah is composed in the style of the great oratorios by Bach or Handel, but his highly dramatic style, at times bordering on the operatic, sets it apart from the Baroque predecessors. Mendellsohn wrote to a friend: ‘…the dramatic element should predominate. The personages should act and speak as if they were living beings.’   Elijah was first performed in front an audience of 2000 people in Birmingham in August 1846 and immediately was an unprecedented success. It was without doubt the crowning point in Mendelssohn’s musical career. But it was also his last triumph, as his life was tragically cut short and he died the following year, only 38 years old. A translation into Mendelssohn’s native German meant that Elijah continued to be popular with English and German speaking audiences ever since.  St Peter and St Paul Parish Church, Buckingham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Peter and St Paul Parish Church
Castle St
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
MK18 1BS
England

Programme

Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah, Op.70

Performers

Clare Tunney – soprano
Frances Gregory – mezzo-soprano
Peter Harris – tenor
Sung Kyu Choi – baritone
Julian Mann – Conductor

Buckingham Choral Society
Orchestra of Stowe Opera

Programme Note

Mendelssohn’s Elijah is composed in the style of the great oratorios by Bach or Handel, but his highly dramatic style, at times bordering on the operatic, sets it apart from the Baroque predecessors. Mendellsohn wrote to a friend: ‘…the dramatic element should predominate. The personages should act and speak as if they were living beings.’  

Elijah was first performed in front an audience of 2000 people in Birmingham in August 1846 and immediately was an unprecedented success. It was without doubt the crowning point in Mendelssohn’s musical career. But it was also his last triumph, as his life was tragically cut short and he died the following year, only 38 years old.

A translation into Mendelssohn’s native German meant that Elijah continued to be popular with English and German speaking audiences ever since. 

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