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Handel/Mendelssohn - Israel in Agypten | CPO 7772222

Handel/Mendelssohn - Israel in Agypten

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 7772222

Barcode: 0761203722228

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 27th April 2009

Contents

Artists

Monika Frimmer
Veronika Winter
Heike Groetzinger
Hans Joerg Mammel
Ekkehard Abele
Gregor Finke
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert

Conductor

Hermann Max

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Israel in Egypt, HWV54 (arr. Mendelssohn)

Artists

Monika Frimmer
Veronika Winter
Heike Groetzinger
Hans Joerg Mammel
Ekkehard Abele
Gregor Finke
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert

Conductor

Hermann Max

About

During his lifetime, Handel revisited his score of Israel in Egypt many times to create a more ‘audience friendly work’, meaning that by the early nineteenth century there were several versions available, often vastly truncated to satisfy the musical appetites of the day.

During his career as a conductor, Felix Mendelssohn conducted Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt more than any other work. While in London, Mendelssohn discovered the original score to the work, and consequently produced a new critical edition in line with this newly-discovered, much longer manuscript source.

Mendelssohn performed his new arrangement of Israel in Egypt at the Lower Rhine Musical Festival in Düsseldorf on 26 May 1833 and in doing so successfully returned the work to the concert stage.

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