The Apostles (Elgar) a single work: "The Kingdom" was first conceived as the last part of "The Apostles", but later Elgar considered them as the first two parts of a trilogy. In any case, the projected third part, "The Last Judgement", never got further than a few sketches which Elgar produced sporadically until 1920. The German translation and the German premiere were both the work of the conductor Julius Buths. "The Apostles" is written for a large orchestra, of typical late Romantic proportions, with the addition of a shofar (usually substituted by a more conventional instrument, such as a flugelhorn), which announces the
Church of the Holy Apostles Church of the Holy Apostles The Church of the Holy Apostles (, "Agioi Apostoloi"; ), also known as the "Imperial Polyándreion" (imperial cemetery), was a Greek Eastern Orthodox church in Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. The first structure dates to the 4th century, though future emperors would add to and improve on the space. It was second in size and importance only to the Hagia Sophia among the great churches of the capital. When Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453, the Holy Apostles briefly became the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church. Three