Notes

Contents

Part I

• Introduction (Elijah): As God the Lord of Israel liveth
• Overture

1. Chorus (SATB): Help, Lord!
2. Duet (SS) with Choir (SATB): Lord! bow thine ear to our prayer!
3. Recitative (Obadiah): Ye people, rend your hearts
4. Aria (Obadiah): If with all your hearts
5. Chorus (SATB): Yet doth the Lord see it not
6. Recitative (Angel I): Elijah! get thee hence
7. Double quartet (Angels, SSAATTBB): For he shall give his angels
   Recit. (Angel I): Now Cherith's brook is dried up (16 bars)
8. Recitative, Aria, Duet (Widow, Elijah): What have I to do with thee? (143 bars)
9. Chorus (SATB): Blessed are the men who fear him
10. Recitative (Elijah, Ahab, SATB): As God the Lord of Sabaoth liveth
11. Chorus (SSAATTBB): Baal, we cry to thee; hear and answer us!
12. Recitative (Elijah, SATB): Call him louder, for he is a god!
13. Recitative (Elijah, SATB): Call him louder! he heareth not!
14. Aria with Choir (Elijah, SATB): Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel!
15. Quartet (SATB): Cast thy burden upon the Lord
16. Recitative (Elijah, SATB): O thou, who makest thine angels spirits
17. Aria (Elijah): Is not his word like a fire?
18. Arioso (Angel I): Woe unto them who forsake him!
19. Recitative (Obadiah, Elijah, SATB, Youth): O man of God, help thy people!
20. Chorus (SATB): Thanks be to God

Part II

21. Aria (Soprano): Hear ye, Israel!
22. Chorus (SATB): Be not afraid, saith God the Lord
23. Recitative (Elijah, Queen, SATB): The Lord hath exalted thee
24. Chorus (Obadiah, Elijah): Woe to him, he shall perish
25. Recitative (Tenor): Man of God, now let my words
26. Aria (Elijah): It is enough, O Lord now take away my life
27. Recitative (Tenor): See, now he sleepeth
28. Trio (SSA): Lift thine eyes