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    The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the poem by John Henry Newman...
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    The Dream of Gerontius is an 1865 poem written by John Henry Newman, consisting of the prayer of a dying man, and angelic and demonic responses. The poem...
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  • Gerontius (/dʒɪˈrɒntiəs, ɡɪˈrɒntiəs/; Latinized Greek for 'old man') can refer to: The Dream of Gerontius, a 1900 choral work by Edward Elgar, a setting...
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    also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Although Elgar...
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  • BBC Symphony Chorus (category Classical music in the United Kingdom)
    recording of The Dream of Gerontius, rating it as "the finest recorded Gerontius ever". On 6 April 2014, another performance was given at the Barbican...
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  • The Dream of Gerontius, Edward Elgar's 1900 work for singers and orchestra, had to wait forty-five years for its first complete recording. Sir Henry Wood...
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    Gervase Elwes (category Alumni of the Royal College of Music)
    Coates) of Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, which he first performed on 9 April 1904, with Muriel Foster and David Ffrangcon-Davies at the Queen's...
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  • Jonathan Tetelman (category Manhattan School of Music alumni)
    Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius. In 2021 he signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon as exclusive artist. In April 2025, Kirill Petrenko the Berliner...
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  • Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius features throughout the play. The 1971 Decca recording by Benjamin Britten with Yvonne Minton as the Angel is used, and the album...
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    paired with Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius; and the 2006 album Sea Pictures, paired with The Music Makers, Simon Wright conducting the Bournemouth Symphony...
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