Mendelssohn: Elias [Elijah], Op. 70
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Elias [Elijah], Op. 70
Genia Kuhmeier, Ann Hallenberg, Lothar Odinius, Michael Nagy / Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor-und-Solisten, Thomas Hengelbrock
[ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 10 May 2017
A new reference recording of Mendelssohn's "Elias" under one of the most important conductors of our times and his internationally successful Balthasar-Neumann-Chor and Ensemble. The recording was made alongside the "Elias" concerts at the renowned Konzerthaus Dortmund, which were described as "sensational" by the press.
"it is in every way a big, dramatic interpretation, and as such absolutely in keeping with Mendelssohn's ideal…Nagy is a powerful, sonorous Elijah, not merely a man of God but an out-and-out demagogue…the whole interpretation is splendidly dramatic, with wide dynamic variations and silences given full value" BBC Magazine
"get a performance as fleet-footed and intelligent as this - conductor Thomas Hengelbrock with his excellent period-instrument ensemble and choir - and all stodge and sanctimony are swept away. There is heft when it matters...But what's more compelling is the nimbleness, the swift-moving parts." The Guardian
