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Oxford Harmonic Choir: Mendelssohn Elijah

Part of the Oxford Harmonic Choir 2022-2023

Add to my Calendar 01-04-2023 19:30 01-04-2023 21:30 36 Oxford Harmonic Choir: Mendelssohn Elijah For our spring concert, we will perform a huge favourite with audiences and singers alike: Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah. First performed in Birmingham Town Hall in 1846, it contains some of the composer’s greatest music, with magnificent choruses, beautiful arias and imaginative orchestration. The story from the Old Testament, containing many natural phenomena – drought, fire, rain, and earthquake – offers much scope for expressive writing, and the work combines many moments of high drama with more lyrical passages of the kind normally associated with the composer. Together with Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Creation, Elijah forms a trio of the most popular oratorios in the choral repertoire. Oxford Town Hall, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

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Oxford Town Hall
Saint Aldate's
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 1BX
England

Programme

Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah, Op.70

Performers

Katherine Crompton – soprano
Arlene Rolph – mezzo-soprano
Simon Ashmead – tenor
Thomas Humphreys – baritone
Robert Secret – Conductor

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Programme Note

For our spring concert, we will perform a huge favourite with audiences and singers alike: Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah. First performed in Birmingham Town Hall in 1846, it contains some of the composer’s greatest music, with magnificent choruses, beautiful arias and imaginative orchestration. The story from the Old Testament, containing many natural phenomena – drought, fire, rain, and earthquake – offers much scope for expressive writing, and the work combines many moments of high drama with more lyrical passages of the kind normally associated with the composer. Together with Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Creation, Elijah forms a trio of the most popular oratorios in the choral repertoire.

Oxford Harmonic Choir: Mendelssohn Elijah

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