Christine Rice - Elgar. The Dream of Gerontius (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

“This is the best of me,” wrote Edward Elgar in 1900 at the end of the manuscript of The Dream of Gerontius. This impressive and modern new recording of Elgar’s magnum opus by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, features mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, tenor John Findon, and baritone Roderick Williams, along with singers from five different choirs: Helsinki Music Centre Choir, Cambridge University Symphony Chorus, Dominante, Helsinki Chamber Choir, and the Alumni of the Choir of Clare College Cambridge.

The Dream of Gerontius is a setting of extracts from the visionary poem of the same title by John Henry Newman (1801–90), a leading theologian and academic at Oxford University, as well as a priest. Newman was made a Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1879, beatified in 2010 by Benedict XIV, and canonised by Pope Francis nine years later.

TRACKLIST

01. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part I: Prelude
02. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part I: Jesu, Maria – I am near to death
03. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part I: Rouse thee, my fainting soul
04. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part I: Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus
05. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part I: Rescue him, O Lord
06. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part I: Proficiscere, anima Christiana
07. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part II: I went to sleep
08. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part II: My work is done
09. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part II: But hark! upon my sense
10. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part II: I see not those false spirits
11. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part II: Praise to the Holiest
12. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part II: Thy judgement now is near
13. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part II: Jesu! By that shuddering dread
14. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part II: I go before my Judge
15. Christine Rice, John Findon, Roderick Williams, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon - Elgar: Part II: Lord, Thou hast been our refuge



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