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Prom 75: Beauty trumps drama in Rattle and the Vienna Phil's Gerontius

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“The performance came together at its best in the passages of calm, blissful rapture”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 11 September 2015
Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius, Oratorio for soloists chorus and orchestra, Op.38
Magdalena Kožená, Mezzo-soprano
Toby Spence, Tenor
Roderick Williams, Baritone
BBC Proms Youth Choir
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