ELGAR – DREAM OF GERONTIUS
Saturday 19th June 2027 at 19.30 Victoria Hall, Sheffield
The season ends with a joint performance of Elgar’s masterpiece with Sheffield Oratorio Chorus, conducted by Philip Collin.
Set to a poem by Cardinal John Henry Newman, it tracks the spiritual journey of an ordinary man’s soul from his deathbed, past judgment by God, and into Purgatory.
Elgar imagined Gerontius to be an ordinary man. “Therefore, I’ve not filled his part with Church tunes and rubbish but a good, healthy full-blooded romantic, remembered worldliness.” The result is full of drama and some of Elgar’s most touching music, from the hushed opening to the sublime ‘Angel’s Farewell’.
‘This is the best of me”, wrote Elgar ‘This, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.”
“bright and well balanced sound throughout” “tremendous.” Tom Owen, Sheffield Telegraph following a previous concert by Sheffield Bach Choir
- Sheffield Bach Choir and Sheffield Oratorio Chorus
- National Festival orchestra
- Katie Symonds-Joy – mezzo soprano
- Peter Davoren – tenor
- bass/baritone to be announced
- Philip Collin – conductor
Tickets will be available online and on the door, price to be determined. Accompanied children will be free