Mendelssohn: Elijah (1954)

Part I: Introduction: Recitative: As God the Lord of Israel liveth (Elijah)

Part I: Overture

Part I: Help, Lord! Wilt Thou quite destroy us? (Chorus)

Part I: The deeps afford no water (Chorus)

Part I: Duet with Chorus: Lord! Bow Thine ear to our prayer! (Soprano, Contralto, Chorus)

Part I: Recitative: Ye people, rend you hearts (Obadiah)

Part I: Aria: If with all your hearts ye truly seek Me (Obadiah)

Part I: Yet doth the Lord see it not (Chorus)

Part I: Recitative: Elijah! Get thee hence (Angel)

Part I: For He shall give His angels charge over thee (Chorus)

Part II: Recitative: Now Cherith's brook is dried up (Angel)

Part I: Recitative: What have I to do with thee, O man of God? (Widow)

Part I: Give me thy son (Elijah)

Part I: Blessed are the men who fear Him (Chorus)

Part I: Recitative: As God the Lord of Sabaoth liveth (Elijah, Ahab, Chorus)

Part I: Baal, we cry to thee (Chorus)

Part I: Recitative: Call him louder, for he is a god! (Elijah, Chorus)

Part I: Recitative and Aria: Draw near, all ye people (Elijah)

Part I: Chorale: Cast the burden upon the Lord (Angels)

Part I: Recitative: O Thou, who makest Thine angels spirits (Elijah, Chorus)

Part I: Aria: Is not His word like a fire (Elijah)

Part I: Arioso: Woe unto them who forsake him! (Contralto)

Part I: Recitative: O man of God, help Thy people! (Obadiah, Elijah, Youth, Chorus)

Part I: Thanks be to God! (Chorus)

Part II: Aria: Hear ye, Israel (Soprano)

Part II: Be not afraid, saith God the Lord (Chorus)

Part II: Recitative: The Lord hath exalted thee from among the people (Elijah)

Part II: Have ye not heard (Contralto)

Part II: Woe to him, he shall perish (Chorus)

Part II: Recitative: Man of God, now let my words be precious in thy sight (Obadiah, Elijah)

Part II: Aria: It is enough Lord (Elijah)

Part II: Recitative: See, now he sleepeth beneath a juniper tree (Tenor)

Part II: Lift thine eyes to the mountains (Chorus)

Part II: He, watching over Israel (Chorus)

Part II: Recitative: Arise, Elijah, for thou hast a long journey before thee (Angel, Elijah)

Part II: Aria: O rest in the Lord (Angel)

Part II: He that shall endure to the end, shall be saved (Chorus)

Part II: Recitative: Night falleth round me, O Lord (Elijah)

Part II: Behold! God the Lord passed by! (Chorus)

Part II: Recitative: Above him stood the Seraphim (Contralto)

Part II: Holy, Holy, Holy is God (Chorus)

Part II: Recitative: I go on my way in the strength of the Lord (Elijah)

Part II: Arioso: For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed (Elijah)

Part II: Then did Elijah the prophet break forth like a fire (Chorus)

Part II: Aria: Then shall the righteous shine forth (Tenor)

Part II: Recitative: Behold, God hath sent Elijah the prophet (Soprano)

Part II: But the Lord from the north hath raised one (Chorus)

Part II: Quartet: O come everyone that thirsteth (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass)

Part II: And then shall your light break forth (Chorus)