K. Richter, H. Harper, Höffgen, Schreier, T. Adam, Singverein / Mendelssohn Bartholdy
K. Richter, H. Harper, Höffgen, Schreier, T. Adam, Singverein / Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Musikverein Wien · Great Hall
Interpreters
- Conductor
- Karl Richter
- Soprano
- Heather Harper
- Alto
- Marga Höffgen
- Tenor
- Peter Schreier
- Bass
- Theo Adam
- Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde
- Wiener Symphoniker
Programme
"Elijah", Oratorio based on words from the Old Testament op. 70
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Elijah: Part One
Introduction: "As God the Lord of Israel liveth"
Overture
1. Chorus and Recitative: "Help, Lord! Wilt thou quite destroy us?" – "The deeps afford no water!"
2. Duet with Chorus: "Lord, bow thine ear to our pray'r!"
3. Recitative: "Ye people, rend your hearts"
4. Aria: "If with all your hearts ye truly seek me"
5. Chorus: "Yet doth the Lord see is not"
6. Recitative: "Elijah, get thee hence"
7. Double quartet and Recitative: "For He shall give His angels charge" – "Now Cheriths brook is dried up"
8. Recitative, Aria and Duet: "What have I to do with thee"
9. Chorus: "Blessed are the men who fear Him"
10. Recitative with Chorus: "As God the Lord of Sabaoth liveth"
11. Chorus: "Baal, we cry to thee"
12. Recitative and Chorus: "Call him louder! For he is a god!"
13. Recitative and Chorus: "Call him louder! He heareth not!"
14. Aria: "Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, Israel"
15. Quartet: "Cast thy burden upon the Lord"
16. Recitative with Chorus: "O Thou, who makest thine Angels spirits"
17. Aria: "Is not His word like a fire"
18. Arioso: "Woe, woe unto them who forsake Him"
19. Recitative with Chorus: "O man of God, help thy people"
20. Chorus: "Thanks to be God"
Elijah: Part Two
21. Aria: "Hear ye, Israel! Hear what the Lord speaketh"
22. Chorus: "Be not afraid, said God the Lord"
23. Recitative with Chorus: "The Lord hath exalted thee"
24. Chorus: "Woe to him! He shall perish"
25. Recitative: "Man of God, now let my words"
26. Aria: "It is enough, O Lord, now take my life"
27. Recitative: "See, now he sleepeth beneath a juniper tree"
28. Trio: "Lift thine eyes to the mountains"
29. Chorus: "He, watching over Israel, slumbers not"
30. Recitative: "Arise, Elijah, for thou hast a long journey"
31. Aria: "O rest in the Lord, wait patiently for Him"
32. Chorus: "He that shall endure to the end, shall be saved"
33. Recitative: "Night falleth round me, O Lord"
34. Chorus: "Behold, God the Lord passed by"
35. Recitative, Quartet with Chorus: "Holy is God the Lord"
36. Chorus and Recitative: "Go, return upon thy way"
37. Arioso: "For the mountains shall depart"
38. Chorus: "Then did Elijah the prophet break forth"
39. Aria: "Then, then shall the righteous shine"
40. Recitative: "Behold, God hath sent Elijah the prophet"
41. Chorus and Quartet: "But the Lord, from the north hath raised one" – "O come ev'ry one that thirsteth"
42. Chorus: "And then, then shall your light break"
Duration: 140 Minutes
— Intermission —