Which composer's oratorios include 'The Kingdom' and 'The Dream of Gerontius'?
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 (poem) The Dream of Gerontius (poem) The Dream of Gerontius is a poem written by John Henry Newman consisting of the prayer of a dying man, and angelic and demonic responses. The poem, written after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, explores his new Catholic-held beliefs of the journey from death through Paradise to God and thence to Purgatory. The poem follows the main character as he nears death and then reawakens as a soul, preparing for judgment, following one of the most important events any human can experience: death. Newman uses the death and judgement of Gerontius as a