Elgar: The Apostles - Part 1
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Martin Handley presents a Prom in which Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra and a cast of singers in Part 1 of Elgar's The Apostles.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley
Mark Elder conducts the 贬补濒濒茅 and a distinguished cast of singers in one of the English choral tradition's major works: Elgar's dramatic and Biblical oratorio The Apostles. Elgar explores the inner feelings of Judas Iscariot with dramatic intensity, and Christ's anguished cry from the cross becomes a wordless lament.
Elgar conceived the idea for The Apostles as a schoolboy, but the project came to fruition only in 1903 - after both The Dream of Gerontius and a visit to Bayreuth to hear Wagner's The Ring and Parsifal.
Elgar: The Apostles (part I)
Rebecca Evans (Soprano - The Angel Gabriel / The Blessed Virgin Mary)
Alice Coote (Mezzo-Soprano - Mary Magdalene / Narrator 2)
Paul Groves (Tenor - St John / Narrator 1)
Jacques Imbrailo (Baritone - Jesus)
Clive Bayley (Bass - Judas)
David Kempster (Baritone - St Peter)
Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Manchester (Chorus of Apostles)
贬补濒濒茅 Choir
贬补濒濒茅 Youth Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
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Mark Elder (Conductor)
This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 23rd August at 2pm.
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