There can be no doubt that Mendelssohn believed -- truly, deeply, profoundly believed -- in the Lutheran faith into which he was baptized. Just listen to his oratorios Elijah and Paulus. Nor can there be any doubt that Mendelssohn was -- truly, deeply, profoundly -- one of the most gifted composers of the first half of the nineteenth century. Just ...
EMI's 2009 recording of Messiah with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, led by Stephen Cleobury, marks three anniversaries: the 250th anniversary of Handel's death, the founding of the University of Cambridge 800 years ago, and the death 80 years ago of Arthur Henry Mann. The last two are significant because Mann, as early as 1894, had led ...
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