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Review title: Balance above all for this work
Product review: In my limited way, my test of a great performance of this work has to be how it affects me. In Elijah, I really feel the work is more an ensemble piece than a showplace for spotlit 'great' voices (as in, for example, the Verdi Requiem.) On this count James Conlon, his soloists and the Cologne Philharmonic with the superb Dusseldorf chorus are so beautifully balanced that I was truly moved and involved throughout the work in a way that the main contender with Bryn Terfel and Renee Fleming just could not do for me. Perhaps it really does take the Germans (meaning Triple Alliance cultural descent) to get to the heart of a work like this. Andrea Rost, please come to the Met again soon!
