A concert to celebrate Crouch End Festival Chorus's landmark recording of Elgar's The Kingdom.
"'The purest and serenest of the composer's works, with its elevating message of spiritual peace and comfort '," August Jaeger quoted by Andrew Neill in his review of David Temple and Crouch End Festival Chorus's "indispensable" new recording of The Kingdom in the Elgar Society Journal
The extent to which The Kingdom resides under the shadow of Elgar's much-loved The Dream of Gerontius is clear from its comparatively infrequent performances and fewer recordings
However, Crouch End Festival Chorus's conductor, David Temple, firmly believes that, with its beautiful, gentle conversational sections, astonishing dramatic passages and iridescent colours, The Kingdom is Elgar's best choral workHis conversion happened gradually, and he is now so taken with the work that he struggles to find any fault with it at all: 'It is a gem from the first note to the last!'
His desire to share this glorious music as widely as possible has led to his recent recording with Crouch End Festival Chorus for Signum Classics (a Gramophone Editor's Choice) and, of course, to this performance
Joining Crouch End Festival Chorus and Hertfordshire Chorus are three of the four wonderful soloists from that recording: soprano Francesca Chiejina, mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, tenor Benjamin Hulett, along with bass, James Platt
Prices: Stalls, boxes; concessions half price (+ booking fee and restoration levy): GBP 45.00, Stalls, rear stalls, side stalls, boxes; concessions half price (+ booking fee and restoration levy): GBP 39.00, Front row, rear stalls, side stalls, boxes; concessions half price (+ booking fee and restoration levy): GBP 25.00, Rear stalls, balcony; concessions half price (+ booking fee and restoration levy): GBP 19.00, Rear stalls, balcony; concessions half price (+ booking fee and restoration levy): GBP 10.00
Artists: Francesca Chiejina - soprano, Dame Sarah Connolly - mezzo-soprano, Benjamin Hulett - tenor, James Platt - bass, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Hertfordshire Chorus, London Orchestra da Camera, David Temple - conductor
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