The Psalms inspired Mendelssohn throughout his working life, and, aside from a cappella settings, he left behind five great orchestral Psalms. Schumann assesed in 1837 that Psalm 42 was the "highest point that he [Mendelssohn] reached as a composer for the church. Indeed the highest point recent church music has reached at all."
Thanks to an arrangement by Homolka (Carus 40.072/50), it is possible to perform the work in smaller settings.
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Composer
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
| 1809-1847
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Editor
Günter Graulich
| 1926The publisher, church musician and teacher Günter Graulich is one of the major personalities in German publishing of the post-war period. With his wife Waltraud he founded Carus-Verlag Stuttgart in 1972, which he built up from a 2-person family firm to a medium-sized business with around 60 employees. A trained church musician and Kantor for many years at the Matthäuskirche Stuttgart, he also directed the Motettenchor Stuttgart for 50 years. With his choir he made LP and CD recordings, and undertook numerous concert tours to other European countries and America. Personal details
Reviews
... Die Partitur ist hervorragend gesetzt und die Fassung ist mit Klavierauszügen und Chorpartituren der Originalversion kompatibel. Gustav Danzinger, Chor aktuell , 01/2021
…liegt hier eine gelungene, technisch hervorragend umgesetzte Bearbeitung vor, die dieses wunderbare Werk einem noch breiteren SängerInnen- und HörerInnenkreis adäquat präsentieren wird.
Tristan Meister, Chorzeit, 04/2021