Mendelssohn’s Elijah- spring concert 2009

The text of the oratorio follows Biblical accounts of the prophet Elijah. The musical style is Baroque, recalling Johann Sebastian Bach, a musician Mendelssohn deeply admired, with an overlay of the Romanticism of Mendelssohn.

Susan Davenport conducts the vocal ensembles, with soloists David Dillard, ??

Performance excerpts:

• Call him Louder
• The Fire Descends from Heavn
• And Then Shall your Light Break Forth