Who wrote the Dream of Gerontius which Elgar later set to music?
The Dream of Gerontius Sargent's 1945 EMI version and Barbirolli's 1964 EMI recording. Prelude to "The Dream of Gerontius", arranged by John Morrison for symphonic wind band, publisher Molenaar Edition. The Dream of Gerontius The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38, is a work for voices and orchestra in two parts composed by Edward Elgar in 1900, to text from the poem by John Henry Newman. It relates the journey of a pious man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory. Elgar disapproved of the use of the term "oratorio" for the work (and the term occurs nowhere in
The Dream of Gerontius discography review for the Elgar Society, Walter Essex preferred the EMI Barbirolli set. The Dream of Gerontius discography The Dream of Gerontius, Edward Elgar's 1900 work for singers and orchestra, had to wait forty-five years for its first complete recording. Sir Henry Wood made acoustic recordings of four extracts from "The Dream of Gerontius" as early as 1916, with Clara Butt as the angel, and Henry Coward's Sheffield Choir recorded a portion of the Part I "Kyrie" in the same period. Edison Bell recorded the work under Joseph Batten in abridged form in 1924 (the recording, with orchestral and choral forces