Name: Paisley Abbey: Elgar's Dream Of Gerontius
Start: 2025-02-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Paisley Abbey

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth

Others

The Huddersfield Choral Society

Orchestra

Usher Hall

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Beth Taylor

Mezzo-Soprano

Tenor

Brenden Gunnell

Bass

Neal Davies

Paisley Abbey: Elgar's Dream Of Gerontius

Paisley

United Kingdom

Paisley Abbey

Edinburgh

Public

The Dream of Gerontius

Sharan Allad

Approved

Join us in the magnificent setting of Paisley Abbey for an epic choral masterpiece. Gerontius is a very ordinary sort of human being – and as he lies dying, he’s anguished and afraid. But his cry of longing opens a portal to wonders beyond the imagination. “This is the best of me” wrote Elgar on the score of The Dream of Gerontius, and this epic drama of a lonely soul’s voyage towards eternity can move listeners to tears. Ryan Wigglesworth has form with Elgar: in a previous performance, The Observer noted that he “plumbed the work’s rich meanings, sacred and secular” – and that Brenden Gunnell sang the title role “with feeling but never excess”. Beth Taylor, Neal Davies and the Huddersfield Choral Society complete an all-star line-up for this landmark of British music.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble