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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 59: Elgar's the Dream of Gerontius
Performance Date31 August 2022
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersAllan Clayton,
Jamie Barton,
James Platt - vocals
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ChoirsHallé Choir,
London Philharmonic Choir
ConductorsEdward Gardner
Set List'The Dream of Gerontius', E Elgar
Performance NotesLarge-scale choral music is back this season, and it doesn’t get bigger or more powerful than The Dream of Gerontius. Elgar’s greatest choral work – the story of a dying man whose soul is guided by an angel towards heaven – is a powerful musical statement of faith and wonder.

‘This is the best of me,’ the composer wrote on his manuscript score, and the searing burst of realisation at Gerontius’s eventual vision of God bears that out. The conductor is Edward Gardner, a distinguished interpreter of British music.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/ ),
Digital Photographs
URLhttps://rah.chorus.thirdlight.com/link/ne5lw9n4em6j-tkx8tm
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/84BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 59: Elgar's the Dream of Gerontius 31 August 2022
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12629BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season69
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/1013Halle; Halle Choir; c1858-; English choir
DS/UK/5593Gardner; Edward (1974-); OBE; English conductor
DS/UK/5601Clayton; Allan (1980); MBE; British tenor singer
DS/UK/20717Barton; Jamie (1980-); American mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/23884Platt; James (fl.2014-); English bass
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