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 Gemini - Mendelssohn: Elijah / Baker, Gedda, Fischer-dieskau
Release Date: 02/15/2005 
Label:  Emi Classics   Catalog #: 86257   Spars Code: ADD 
Composer:  Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:  Dame Janet BakerDietrich Fischer-DieskauDame Gwyneth JonesSimon WoolfNicolai Gedda

Conductor:  R. Frühbeck de Burgos
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New Philharmonia OrchestraNew Philharmonia ChorusWandsworth School Boys' Choir

Number of Discs: 2 
Recorded in: Stereo 
Length: 2 Hours 20 Mins. 

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1.  Elijah, Op. 70 by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer:  Dame Janet Baker (Mezzo Soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone), Dame Gwyneth Jones (Soprano),
Simon Woolf (Boy Soprano), Nicolai Gedda (Tenor)
Conductor:  R. Frühbeck de Burgos
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New Philharmonia Orchestra,  New Philharmonia Chorus,  Wandsworth School Boys' Choir
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1846-1847; Germany 
Date of Recording: 07/1968 
Venue:  Kingsway Hall, London, England 
Length: 139 Minutes 34 Secs. 
Language: English 
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Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): Introduction: As God the Lord of Israel liveth (Elijah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): Overture
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 1 - Help, Lord! Wilt thou quite destroy us? (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 2 - Lord! Bow Thine ear to our prayer! (chorus, soprano, alto)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 3 - Ye people, rend your hearts (Obadiah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 4 - If with all your hearts (Obadiah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 5 - Yet doth the Lord see it not (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 6 - Elijah! Get thee hence (Angel I)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 7 - For He shall give His angels charge over thee (semi-chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): Recit. Now Cherith's brook is dried up (Angel I)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 8 - What have I to do with thee? (Widow, Elijah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 9 - Blessed are the men who fear Him (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 10 - As God the Lord of Sabaoth liveth (Elijah, Ahab, chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 11 - Baal, we cry to thee; hear and answer us! (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 12 - Call him louder, for he is a god! (Elijah, chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 13 - Call him louder! He heareth not! (Elijah, chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 14 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel! (Elijah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 15 - Cast thy burden upon the Lord (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 16 - O Thou, who makest Thine angels spirits (Elijah, chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 17 - Is not his word like a fire? (Elijah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 18 - Woe unto them who forsake Him! (alto)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 19 - O man of God, help thy people! (Obadiah, Elijah, chorus, Youth)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 20 - Thanks be to God! (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 21 - Hear ye, Israel; hear what the Lord speaketh (soprano)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 22 - Be not afraid, saith God the Lord (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 23 - The Lord hath exalted thee (Elijah, Queen, chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 24 - Woe to him, he shall perish (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 25 - Man of God, now let my words be precious (Obadiah, Elijah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 26 - It is enough; O Lord take my life (Elijah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 27 - See, now he sleepeth (tenor)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 28 - Lift thine eyes to the mountains (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 29 - He, watching over Israel, slumbers not (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 30 - Arise, Elijah, for thou hast a long journey (Angel I, Elijah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 31 - O rest in the Lord (Angel I)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 32 - He that shall endure to the end, shall be saved (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 33 - Night falleth round me, O Lord! (Elijah, Angel II)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 34 - Behold! God the Lord passed by! (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 35 - Above Him stood the Seraphim (alto, chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 36 - Go, return upon thy way! (chorus, Elijah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 37 - For the mountains shall depart (Elijah)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 38 - Then did Elijah the prophet break forth (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 39 - Then shall the righteous shine forth (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 40 - Behold, God hath sent Elijah (soprano)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 41 - But the Lord from the north hath raised one (chorus)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 41a - O come everyone that thirsteth (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)
Elijah Op. 70 (1968 Digital Remaster): No. 42 - And then shall your light break forth (chorus)
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