Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (2017)

Edward Elgar disapproved of the term "oratorio" for The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, even though it seems to fit the criteria for the term. In this reading by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin, a pair of massed top German choirs, and fine soloists, Elgar's caution seems to be borne out: the work emerges as positively operatic, with impressive results. The soloists are English, the conductor Argentine-Israeli-Palestinian, but this is at heart a German Traum des Gerontius , appropriate in view of the fact that it was ... Read More

Edward Elgar disapproved of the term "oratorio" for The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, even though it seems to fit the criteria for the term. In this reading by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin, a pair of massed top German choirs, and fine soloists, Elgar's caution seems to be borne out: the work emerges as positively operatic, with impressive results. The soloists are English, the conductor Argentine-Israeli-Palestinian, but this is at heart a German Traum des Gerontius , appropriate in view of the fact that it was the Germans who first appreciated and did justice to this work that has so long been thought of as purely English. Barenboim's conception of the piece is intensely dramatic, with very deliberate, stately slow sections, such as the opening Prelude, heavy in a good way. The soloists take their place in the work naturally: there was disappointment in 2016 when the star tenor Jonas Kaufmann had to cancel and was replaced by Andrew Staples as Gerontius, but the coherence of the... Read Less

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