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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC Proms
Leading Elgar interpreter
Sir Mark Elder directs
a stellar cast and
large-scale choral forces,
reviving a major work of
the British choral
tradition. Elgar conceived
The Apostles as a
schoolboy, but the
project came to fruition
only in 1903 – after both
The Dream of Gerontius
and a visit to Bayreuth to hear Wagner’s The Ring
and Parsifal. Elgar explores the inner feelings of
Judas Iscariot with dramatic intensity, and
Christ’s anguished cry from the cross
becomes a wordless lament.