Royal Albert Hall, LondonMendelssohn's iconic oratorio, beloved of UK audiences since its Birmingham premiere in 1846, fell from critical favour with the passing of the Victorian era. George Bernard Shaw was scathing about the composer's "despicable oratorio-mongering", describing the "prostitution of Mendelssohn's great genius to this lust for threatening and vengeance, doom and wrath" as "the most painful incident in the art-history of the century". Even Paul McCreesh, who conducted this accou...
Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonMendelssohn's iconic oratorio, beloved of UK audiences since its Birmingham premiere in 1846, fell from critical favour with the passing of the V... more info