Oratoria on words of the bible (choir score)

Description

also: Musik für die Toten der Cholera-Epidemie 1831
Instrumentation: soli, choir and orchestra
Edition: choir score (minimum order quantity: 10 copies)

Publisher: Elke Mascha Blankenburg
Year: 1831
Difficulty: medium

“This oratorio is the third of three church works composed in rapid succession on 1831; its scoring is more abundant than that of the cantatas composed prior to it: there are five- to eight-part choruses and the orchestra is expanded to include three trombones. Once again Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn looks back in musical history, this time to the pre-Baroque era, and adds a new dimension to her own compositional language by doing so. At times modal harmonies create an „archaic“ atmosphere for the biblical texts. Performance material available on hire. “