Mendelssohn: Elijah / Shaw, Bonney, Quivar, Hadley, Hampson, Atlanta Symphony (Sung in English)
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Performer: Thomas HampsonPerformer: Thomas Paul
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Conductor: Robert Shaw
Performer: Florence Quivar
Performer: Marietta Simpson
Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Performer: Barbara Bonney
Performer: Henriette Schellenberg
Performer: Reid Bartelme
Performer: Jerry Hadley
Performer: Richard Clement
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-09-26
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Introduction
- Overture
- Chorus
- Quartet: Recitative
- Duet with Chorus
- Recitative
- Double Quartet
- Chorus
- Recitative
- Double Quartet
- Recitative
- Air
- Chorus
- Recitative
- Chorus
- Recitative
- Recitative
- Air
- Quartet
- Recitative
- Air
- Air
- Recitative
- Chorus
- Air
- Chorus
- Recitative
- Chorus
- Recitative
- Air
- Recitative
- Trio of Angels
- Chorus
- Recitative
- Air
- Chorus
- Recitative
- Chorus
- Chorus
- Arioso
- Chorus
- Air
- Recitative
- Chorus
- Quartet
- Chorus
Music reviews of Mendelssohn: Elijah / Shaw, Bonney, Quivar, Hadley, Hampson, Atlanta Symphony (Sung in English)
Music Review: Text? What text?
Rating: 3 Stars
For a quick summary - if you are not familiar with Elijah, this is great! If you're a bit familiar with it, it's pretty good. If you know the piece well (including having performed it), it is extremely annoying!
First, Thomas Hampson is fabulous! I picked this recording because of him, and I am not the least bit disappointed. As a bit of a bonus, Jerry Hadley is the tenor soloist. Too bad Mendelssohn didn't have much for the tenor soloist...
Robert Shaw's use of the chorus was great. As expected, the diction is very distinct. His use of dynamics and tempo changes adds to the dramatic effect of the piece. Unfortunately, Shaw then played a few tricks. For one thing, "Cast Your Burden", rather than being a chorale, is a simple quartet. This is a reasonable use of license. Unfortunately, the King James translation was not nearly good enough for Shaw. For no reason I can determine, Shaw re-wrote lines of text in all of the choruses. These changes do not affect the flow of the text/music, don't seem to have any theological significance, and are annoying beyond belief!
I could have given this recording a top rating had Shaw not decided that which Mendelssohn wrote was good enough for him.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( M ) > Mendelssohn, Felix
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( A ) > Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- ( H ) > Hadley, Jerry
- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
- Symphonies > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Divas > Bonney, Barbara
- Oratorios
- Mendelssohn, Felix - Works by Mendelssohn
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