作曲者 | Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)・フェリークス・メンデルスゾーン |
タイトル | Elias, MWV A 25 [練習用CD, tenore] |
出版社 | Carus・カールス |
シリーズ名 | Carus Choir Coach |
楽器編成(詳細) | Soli SATB,Coro SATB,2 Fl,2 Ob,2 Clt,2 Fg,4 Cor,2 Tr,3 Trb,Oficleide,Timp,2 Violins,Viola,Cello,Contrabass,Organ |
品番 | 4009350736511 |
難易度 | 中上級 |
言語 | ドイツ語 |
形状 | 14.8 x 21 cm・72 g・CD in DVD format |
演奏時間 | 132分 |
作曲年 | 1845-1846年 |
出版年 | 2017年 |
出版番号 | CV 40.130/93 |
その他 | An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text |
Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn’s compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive possibilities in which Old Testament texts, including psalm texts and commentaries from the words of the Prophets, were shaped into biblical dramas. “For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament.” Mendelssohn to his librettist