The Proms 2011: week six in review | Guy Dammann

Paul McCreesh's Elijah ensured Mendelssohn lovers had a Baal, while Handel and Tchaikovsky were also well representedSunday was a great day for Baal fans. For those who don't know to whom, or what, this statement refers, "Baal" isn't posh-speak for footbaal – whose supporters also had a remarkable Sunday – but for one of the princes of hell (alongside Satan, mammon, Leviathan and, of course, the Wayne Rooney trinity).In the contest of the gods dramatised by Mendelssohn in his Old Testament o...

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