Have you ever doubted your own work? Elgar didn’t when he wrote The Dream of Gerontius – in fact he wrote this of the piece in the back of the score…
This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another: my life was as the vapour and is not; but this I saw and knew; this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.
Have a look at the video below and let us know – do you agree with him?
We last performed The Dream of Gerontius at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in May 2024 with the wonderful Philharmonia Orchestra and David Hill alongside some fantastic soloists. You can read the story of the evening here. We regularly perform choral masterpieces like this one in some of London’s top venue – find out what’s next in our programme of concerts here.