Here is your opportunity to experience Elgar’s epic choral masterpiece in the magnificent setting of the Usher Hall. Gerontius is a very ordinary sort of human being – and as he lies dying, he’s anguished and afraid. But his cry of longing opens a portal to wonders beyond the imagination. “This is the best of me” wrote Elgar on the score of The Dream of Gerontius, and this epic drama of a lonely soul’s voyage towards eternity can move listeners to tears.
Ryan Wigglesworth has form with Elgar: in a previous performance, The Observer noted that he “plumbed the work’s rich meanings, sacred and secular” – and that Brenden Gunnell sang the title role “with feeling but never excess”. Beth Taylor, Neal Davies, the Huddersfield Choral Society and the RCS Chamber Choir complete an all-star line-up for this landmark of British music.
This concert ends at approximately 4.55pm, including an interval.
TICKETS:
£16, £20, £25, £32
£6 tickets for Under 26s, Students & Unemployed
Half Price, ed Disabled
