℗ 1955 Decca Music Group Limited
| Released | 1955 |
| Duration | 2h 10m 05s |
| Record Label | Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. |
| Genre | Classical |
Mendelssohn: Elijah (Remastered 2024)
London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Josef Krips
Available in MQA and 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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Elijah, Op. 70, Pt. 1
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1.1
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Introduction. As God the Lord of Israel Liveth
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
1:05 | |||
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Eliash, Op. 70, Pt. 1
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1.2
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Overture. Help, Lord! Wilt Thou Quite Destroy Us?
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
7:22 | |||
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Elijah, Op. 70, Pt. 1
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1.3
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The Deeps Afford No Water - Lord, Bow Thine Ear
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
2:53 | |||
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1.4
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Ye People, Rend Your Hearts - If With All Your Hearts
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; George Maran; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
3:14 | |||
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1.5
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Yet Doth the Lord See It Not - Elijah! Get Thee Hence
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Norma Procter; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
4:35 | |||
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1.6
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For He Shall Give His Angels
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
2:13 | |||
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1.7
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Now Cherith's Brook Is Dried Up - What Have I to Do
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Jacqueline Delman; Norma Procter; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
7:28 | |||
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1.8
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Blessed Are the Men Who Fear Him
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
3:15 | |||
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1.9
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As God the Lord of Sabaoth Liveth - Baal, We Cry to Thee
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; George Maran; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
9:23 | |||
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1.10
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Draw Near All ye People - Lord God of Abraham
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
3:40 | |||
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1.11
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Cast Thy Burden upon the Lord
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
2:13 | |||
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1.12
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O Thou, Who Makest Thine Angels
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
0:28 | |||
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1.13
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The Fire Descends from Heaven - Take All the Prophets
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
4:37 | |||
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1.14
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Woe unto Them - O Man of God - Thanks Be to God!
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Norma Procter; George Maran; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
12:20 | |||
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Elijah, Op. 70, Pt. 2
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1.15
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Hear Ye, Isael - Be Not Afraid - The Lord Hath Exalted
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Jacqueline Delman; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
11:04 | |||
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1.16
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Have Ye Not Heard - Man of God
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Norma Procter; George Maran; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
5:24 | |||
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1.17
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Though Stricken, They Have Not Grieved
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
0:28 | |||
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1.18
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It Is Enough! O Lord, Now Take - See, Now He Sleepeth
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; George Maran; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
5:45 | |||
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1.19
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Lift Thine Eyes - He, Watching Over Israel
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
6:13 | |||
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1.20
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Arise Elijah - Oh Lord, I Have Laboured in Vain!
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Norma Procter; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
1:39 | |||
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1.21
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O Rest in the Lord - He That Shall Endure - Night Falleth
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Norma Procter; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
7:08 | |||
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1.22
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Arise Now! - Behold! God the Lord Passed By
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Norma Procter; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
4:34 | |||
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1.23
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Above Him Stood the Seraphim - Go, Return Upon Thy Way!
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Norma Procter; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
4:18 | |||
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1.24
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I Go on My Way - For the Mountains Shall Depart
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
2:50 | |||
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1.25
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Then Did Elijah the Prophet - Then Shall the Righteous
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; George Maran; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
4:49 | |||
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1.26
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Behold, God Hath Sent Elijah - But Lord, from the North
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Jacqueline Delman; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
4:30 | |||
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1.27
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O Come Every One - And Then Shall Your Light Break Forth
Felix Mendelssohn; Julius Schubring; Jacqueline Delman; Norma Procter; George Maran; Bruce Boyce; London Philharmonic Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Josef Krips |
6:37 | |||
Born and raised in Vienna, Josef Krips trained as a choirboy and studied with Felix Weingartner, who then hired him as a repetiteur at the Volksoper. He his debut there in 1921, before graduating to the Vienna State Opera in 1933. In the aftermath of the Second World War, it was Krips above all who reformed and re-trained the State Opera as a world-class ensemble, and in the most difficult conditions. His pragmatism and understated authority made him a model recording conductor, and Decca hired him to work with orchestras in several of their centres of activity.
Mozart was forever Krips’s hero: ‘My maxim is that everything has to sound as though it were by Mozart, or it will be a bad performance. When you perform Mozart, everything has to be crystal clear, everything has to be in balance and everything has to have a relaxed sound.’
Compiled here for the first time, as one of a two-volume Krips edition, are the conductor’s complete mono recordings for Decca beginning with Kingsway Hall sessions in October 1947. Mozart symphonies, concertos, overtures and arias appeared on 78s – newly transferred for this set by Andrew Hallifax. From the early LP era comes the first-ever complete recording of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, with a cast entirely drawn from the Vienna State Opera company, and (also from 1950) a remarkably forward-looking account of the Requiem, recorded with a cathedral-style all-male chorus including boys on the top line, much closer to Mozart’s world than contemporary, symphonic-style versions of the piece.
Combined with Decca’s famous ‘ffrr’ sound, these Mozartian qualities also illuminate Krips’s mono recordings of symphonies by Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert, concertos by Schumann and Dvořák, Johann Strauss waltzes and a version of Mendelssohn’s Elijah which combines the best of the British oratorio tradition with an operatic momentum and a gently glowing orchestral palette.
Distinguished soloists on these recordings include Clifford Curzon and Mischa Elman in Mozart; Zara Nelsova in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto; and Hilde Gueden, Maria Reining, Anton Dermota and Richard Lewis singing opera arias (recorded on 78, several receiving their first digital transfer in this box).
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -5.42 -17.31 to -1.55 | -26.03 -39.24 to -20.36 | -21.92 -36.30 to -16.70 | 12 8 to 14 | |
| 1 | Introduction. As God the Lord of Israel Liveth | -7.18 | -25.01 | -21.0 | 10 |
| 2 | Overture. Help, Lord! Wilt Thou Quite Destroy Us? | -1.64 | -21.34 | -17.3 | 12 |
| 3 | The Deeps Afford No Water - Lord, Bow Thine Ear | -8.50 | -29.63 | -26.3 | 13 |
| 4 | Ye People, Rend Your Hearts - If With All Your Hearts | -3.68 | -25.40 | -21.0 | 13 |
| 5 | Yet Doth the Lord See It Not - Elijah! Get Thee Hence | -3.41 | -20.99 | -17.2 | 11 |
| 6 | For He Shall Give His Angels | -7.85 | -28.94 | -25.7 | 12 |
| 7 | Now Cherith's Brook Is Dried Up - What Have I to Do | -4.35 | -25.62 | -21.4 | 14 |
| 8 | Blessed Are the Men Who Fear Him | -4.33 | -24.25 | -20.8 | 12 |
| 9 | As God the Lord of Sabaoth Liveth - Baal, We Cry to Thee | -2.35 | -22.03 | -17.8 | 12 |
| 10 | Draw Near All ye People - Lord God of Abraham | -4.69 | -27.88 | -23.5 | 13 |
| 11 | Cast Thy Burden upon the Lord | -17.31 | -39.24 | -36.3 | 12 |
| 12 | O Thou, Who Makest Thine Angels | -16.86 | -38.51 | -35.1 | 8 |
| 13 | The Fire Descends from Heaven - Take All the Prophets | -1.98 | -20.36 | -16.7 | 11 |
| 14 | Woe unto Them - O Man of God - Thanks Be to God! | -1.55 | -21.75 | -16.8 | 12 |
| 15 | Hear Ye, Isael - Be Not Afraid - The Lord Hath Exalted | -3.73 | -23.72 | -19.9 | 13 |
| 16 | Have Ye Not Heard - Man of God | -2.54 | -22.63 | -18.2 | 12 |
| 17 | Though Stricken, They Have Not Grieved | -12.06 | -32.84 | -28.3 | 10 |
| 18 | It Is Enough! O Lord, Now Take - See, Now He Sleepeth | -4.43 | -25.97 | -21.3 | 13 |
| 19 | Lift Thine Eyes - He, Watching Over Israel | -2.91 | -26.13 | -21.7 | 13 |
| 20 | Arise Elijah - Oh Lord, I Have Laboured in Vain! | -6.32 | -27.31 | -23.6 | 12 |
| 21 | O Rest in the Lord - He That Shall Endure - Night Falleth | -7.12 | -28.27 | -24.1 | 12 |
| 22 | Arise Now! - Behold! God the Lord Passed By | -2.00 | -24.90 | -19.6 | 12 |
| 23 | Above Him Stood the Seraphim - Go, Return Upon Thy Way! | -4.78 | -26.74 | -21.7 | 12 |
| 24 | I Go on My Way - For the Mountains Shall Depart | -5.62 | -26.63 | -22.1 | 12 |
| 25 | Then Did Elijah the Prophet - Then Shall the Righteous | -1.62 | -21.35 | -17.4 | 12 |
| 26 | Behold, God Hath Sent Elijah - But Lord, from the North | -4.74 | -23.54 | -19.1 | 10 |
| 27 | O Come Every One - And Then Shall Your Light Break Forth | -2.72 | -21.83 | -17.9 | 10 |