Jonathan De Vries, conductor
Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn’s 1846 oratorio Elijah was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Champion of Handel’s and Bach’s oratorios, Mendelssohn created a work that combined the best of older traditions with Mendelssohn’s own compositional and artistic innovations. Inspired by Handel’s Messiah – to which it was often compared – it exemplifies lush and intense mid-nineteenth century Romanticism.
Sidney Outlaw as Elijah
Brian Cheney as Obadiah
Jennifer Grimaldi, soprano
Kate Maroney, Mezzo-soprano
Church of the Heavenly Rest
2 E. 90th St
NYC , New York 10128
5th Ave