Elias, MWV A 25 [score, 布装丁] Peter Griesbacher The prolixity of some of

The prolixity of some of the movements and of concluding fugues in the "Gloria" and "Credo" is indeed surprising

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

Siegbert Rampe has chosen valuable and technically not too demanding pieces

” In the expressive choral movements rich-sounding homophonic passages are combined with sections worked out in strict polyphony

This new edition serves the needs of practical performance as well as the interest in the history of the Passion as it has been handed down to the present day

Elias, MWV A 25 [score, 布装丁] Peter Griesbacher The prolixity of some ofElijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns 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