| Main Performers | Magdalena Kozena - Angel,
Toby Spence - Gerontius
Roderick Williams - Priest/Angel of the Agony |
| Performance Notes | Sir Simon Rattle conducts the second of two performances by the Vienna Philharmonic, completing a Proms triptych of Elgars great oratorios, spread across recent seasons, with arguably the greatest of them all: The Dream of Gerontius. This is spiritual inquiry at its most musically intoxicating and ecstatic a work that reaches after the same mystic transcendence as Wagners Parsifal. The BBC Proms Youth Choir returns for its fourth festival appearance, joining soloists Toby Spence and Roderick Williams, with Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Koená as the Angel.
There will be one interval.
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Sold out Proms. Approxiamately 300 patrons turned away. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guides (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/133),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs |