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Saturday 30 March 7:30pm
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Winchester Cathedral

Mendelssohn Elijah
Nadine Benjamin soprano
Anna Harvey mezzo-soprano
Thomas Elwin tenor
James Rutherford bass-baritone
Newcastle Bach Choir
The Waynflete Singers
London Mozart Players
Andrew Lumsden conductor
Winchester Cathedral welcomes a choir from its north-eastern partner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Newcastle Bach Choir will join with the Waynflete Singers to perform Mendelssohn’s great oratorio Elijah. First performed at the 1846 Birmingham Festival with an orchestra of over one hundred and a choir of nearly three hundred, it was a spectacular success. The Waynflete Singers and their guests promise an equally rousing rendition as Elijah urges King Ahab’s people to forsake their false god and turn to the Lord. Orchestral fire and brimstone will be in ample supply from the London Mozart Players.