Mendelssohn / Doyle / Crouch End Festival Chorus - Choral Works - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

David Temple conducts the Crouch End Festival Chorus and London Mozart Players with a formidable group of soloists on this album celebrating the works of the siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel (nee Mendelssohn). Fanny's cantata Hiob, based on the Book of Job, is the second of three cantatas composed between February and November 1831, although it remained unpublished until 1992. Later in her short career, encouraged by her brother and her friend Robert von Keudell, Fanny did begin to publish her works. The Gartenlieder, Op. 3 for unaccompanied choir were composed in 1846, and inspired by the gardens and summerhouse at the family's Leipzigerstraße residence, in Berlin, where she held her choir rehearsals. Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht is a secular cantata, a setting of the poem by Goethe, originally performed in 1831. Mendelssohn revised the work extensively in 1843, and it is this later version that is performed here. His Christmas cantata Vom Himmel hoch, based on a Lutheran chorale, was completed in 1831. Details 9. Hiob, H-U 258 Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra~3. Chor Leben und Wohltat hast du an mir getan. Vivace - Lento 12. Gartenlieder, Op. 3 for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass (Chorus)~3. Im Herbste III, H-U 430 in A major. Allegro ma non troppo 18. erste Walpurgisnacht, Op. 60, MWV D3 for (Soloists,) Chorus, and Orchestra~1. Ein Druide, Chor des Volks, Chor der Druiden und des Volks Es lacht der Mai!. Allegro vivace non troppo (L'istesso tempo) - Die Flamme lodre durch den Rauch!. Allegro assai vivace -