Presented by George Guest. Elgar The Dream of Gerontius
"This is the best of me."
One of the most popular
English oratorios, a setting of Cardinal Newman's poem which tells of the journey of Gerontius' soul through death, to the very presence of the "Holiest in the Height".
George Guest talks to
Richard Hickox about his approach to a work whose composer could find "no word invented yet to describe it".
Ann Murray (mezzo)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
David Wilson Johnson
(baritone)
Bath Festival Chorus
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Series producer Tim Thome
(Concert recorded last April in St David's Hall, Cardiff)