BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius
Here is your opportunity to experience Elgar’s epic choral masterpiece in the magnificent setting of the Usher Hall.
About BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius
Imagine this. A team of stellar soloists and an epic choral masterpiece in Edinburgh’s much-loved venue for the very best of Elgar.
Gerontius is a very ordinary sort of human being – and as he lies dying, he’s anguished and afraid. But his cry of longing opens a portal to wonders beyond the imagination. “This is the best of me” wrote Elgar on the score of The Dream of Gerontius, and this epic drama of a lonely soul’s voyage towards eternity can move listeners to tears. Ryan Wigglesworth has form with Elgar: in a previous performance, The Observer noted that he “plumbed the work’s rich meanings, sacred and secular” – and that Brenden Gunnell sang the title role “with feeling but never excess”. Beth Taylor, Neal Davies and the Huddersfield Choral Society complete an all-star line-up for this landmark of British music.
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