Details
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Edward Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38
Performers
Magdalena Kozená – mezzo-soprano
Toby Spence – tenor
Roderick Williams – baritone
Sir Simon Rattle – Conductor
BBC Proms Youth Choir
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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Programme Note
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the second of two performances by the Vienna Philharmonic, completing a Proms triptych of Elgar’s 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 Wagner’s Parsifal. The BBC Proms Youth Choir returns for its fourth festival appearance, joining soloists Toby Spence and Roderick Williams, with Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená as the Angel.
There will be one interval