Various Artists: Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius CD

This new album of Elgar’s choral-orchestral masterpiece ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ from Huddersfield Choral Society is optimally timed to coincide with major new film ‘The Choral’ which stars 3-time Oscar-nominated actor Ralph Fiennes playing the conductor of a Yorkshire choral society

Tracklist:
CD 1
1. Prelude
2. Jesu, Maria—I am near to death … Kyrie eleison (Gerontius/Assistants)
3. Holy Mary, pray for him (Assistants)
4. Rouse thee, my fainting soul (Gerontius/Assistants)
5. Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus (Gerontius)
6. I can no more (Gerontius/Assistants)
7. Proficiscere, anima Christiana … Go, in the name of Angels and Archangels (Priest/Assistants)

CD 2
1. Introduction
2. I went to sleep (Soul of Gerontius)
3. My work is done (Angel)
4. It is a member of that family (Soul of Gerontius/Angel)
5. But hark! upon my sense (Soul of Gerontius/Angel)
6. Low-born clods of brute earth – Dispossessed, aside thrust (Demons/Angel)
7. I see not those false spirits (Soul of Gerontius/Angel)
8. There was a mortal … Praise to the holiest (Angel/Choir of Angelicals/Soul of Gerontius)
9. But hark! a grand mysterious harmony (Soul of Gerontius/Angel)
10. Praise to the holiest (Choir of Angelicals)
11. Thy judgement now is near (Angel/Soul of Gerontius)
12. Jesu! by that shuddering dread (Angel of the Agony/Soul of Gerontius/Voices on Earth)
13. Praise to his name! … Take me away (Angel/Soul of Gerontius/Souls in Purgatory)
14. Softly and gently (Angel/Souls in Purgatory/Choir of Angelicals