London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano / Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha / Sarah Connolly - Mendelssohn: Elijah (SACD)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Sarah Connolly, Allan Clayton, Gerald Finley, Antonio Pappano — Elijah
Format: CD • Label: LSO Live (LSO0898) • Released: 2024 • Pressing: Europe • Genre: Classical, Choral, Oratorio

Tracklist:
1-1. Introduction. “As God the Lord of Israel liveth”
1-2. Overture
1-3. No 1, Chorus. “Help Lord! Wilt Thou quite destroy us?”
1-4. No 1, Recitative. “The depths afford no water!”
1-5. No 2, Duet with Chorus. “Lord, bow Thine ear to our pray’r!”
1-6. No 3, Recitative. “Ye people, rend your hearts, and not your garments”
1-7. No 4, Aria. “If with all your hearts ye truly seek Me”
1-8. No 5, Chorus. “Yet doth the Lord see it not”
1-9. No 6, Recitative. “Elijah! Get thee hence from here!”
1-10. No 7, Double Quartet. “For He shall give His angels to watch over thee”
1-11. No 8, Recitative, Aria and Duet. “What have I to do with thee”
1-12. No 9, Chorus. “Blessed are the men who fear Him”
1-13. No 10, Recitative with Chorus. “As God the Lord of Sabaoth liveth”
1-14. No 11, Chorus. “Baal, we cry to thee”
1-15. No 12, Recitative and Chorus. “Call him louder! For he is a God”
1-16. No 13, Recitative and Chorus. “Call him louder! He heareth not”
1-17. No 14, Aria. “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel”
1-18. No 15, Quartet. “Cast thy burden upon the Lord”
1-19. No 16, Recitative and Chorus. “O Thou, who makest Thine angels spirits”
1-20. No 17, Aria. “Is not His word like a fire”
1-21. No 18, Arioso. “Woe, woe unto them who forsake Him!”
1-22. No 19, Recitative and Chorus. “O man of God, help Thy people!”
1-23. No 20, Chorus. “Thanks be to God”
2-1. No 21, Aria, Recitative and Aria. “Hear ye, Israel!” – “Thus saith the Lord” – “I am He that comforteth”
2-2. No 22, Chorus. “Be not afraid, saith God the Lord”
2-3. No 23, Recitative and Chorus. “The Lord hath exalted thee from among the people”
2-4. No 24, Chorus. “Woe to him! He shall perish”
2-5. No 25, Recitative. “Man of God, now let me words by precious in thy sight!”
2-6. No 26, Aria. “It is enough! O Lord, now take away my life”
2-7. No 27, Recitative. “See, now he sleepeth beneath a juniper tree in the desert!”
2-8. No 28, Trio. “Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes to the mountains”
2-9. No 29, Chorus. “He, watching over Israel, slumbers not, nor sleeps”
2-10. No 30, Recitative. “Arise, Elijah”
2-11. No 31, Aria. “O rest in the Lord, and wait for Him”
2-12. No 32, Chorus. “He that shall endure to the end”
2-13. No 33, Recitative. “Night falleth round me, O Lord!”
2-14. No 34, Chorus. “Behold, God the Lord”
2-15. No 35, Recitative and Quartet with Chorus. “Above Him stood the Seraphim” – “Holy, holy, holy is God the Lord”
2-16. No 36, Chorus and Recitative. “Go, return upon thy way”
2-17. No 37, Arioso. “For the mountains shall depart”
2-18. No 38, Chorus. “Then did Elijah the prophet break forth like a fire”
2-19. No 39, Aria. “Then shall the righteous shine”
2-20. No 40, Recitative. “Behold, God hath sent Elijah the prophet”
2-21. No 41, Chorus. “But the Lord hath awakened one this night”
2-22. No 41, Quartet. “O come ev’ry one that thirsteth”
2-23. No 42, Final Chorus. “And then shall your light break forth”

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