Concert
Daniel Barenboim conducts Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius”
Simon Halsey on Edward Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius”
Under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, the Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin performed Elgar’s oratorio The Dream of Gerontius in January 2012. Here, Simon Halsey, the then head of the vocal ensemble, presents an introduction to the work.
© 2012 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
Related concert
Recommended for you
- Simon Halsey on Schubert, Mahler, Debussy and Claudio Abbado
- Simon Halsey talking about Haydn’s “The Seasons”
- Peter Sellars in conversation with Simon Halsey
- Matthias Pintscher in conversation with Raphael Haeger
- Daniil Trifonov in conversation with Shirley Apthorp
- Manfred Honeck in conversation with Martin Menking
- Sir Simon Rattle, Andrew Staples and Stefan Dohr in conversation
- Marc Minkowski in conversation with Bruno Delepelaire
- Musicians of the Berliner Philharmoniker talk about Anton Bruckner
- Sir Simon Rattle on Schubert’s “Winterreise”
