When the New York Philharmonic performs Felix Mendelssohn’s rarely heard “Elijah” (1846) oratorio this weekend, many will no doubt see it as proof that the composer always identified with his family’s ...

Mendelssohn was evidently bursting to write his glorious oratorio Elijah quite some time before he actually composed the music. Soon after the premiere of his first oratorio, St Paul, in 1836, his ...

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The Music Elijah’s popularity was such that for a while it supplanted even Handel’s Messiah as the most popular of all choral works. At the Birmingham premiere, the 2000- strong audience lost all ...

During his tragically curtailed life, the 19th century German composer Felix Mendelssohn became adept at code switching. Mendelssohn was born Jewish, but his parents baptized him as Protestant while ...

Mendelssohn's "Elijah" can't help but remind you of one of those grim London railway stations through which you rush to catch an express to the Lake District. The 1846 oratorio has always seemed solid ...