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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Edward Elgar (redirect from He Banged The Leather for Goal)
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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Ode (poem) (redirect from We are the music makers)
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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