125th Anniversary performance of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius at Guildford Cathedral in collaboration with Bracknell Choral Society
6:00pm, Sat, 22 Mar 2025
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Type of event: Performance Start time: 6:00pm Venue: Guildford Cathedral, Stag Hill, Guildford GU2 7UP See map below Ticket pricing/options: Tickets - £30
Earlybird - £25 (until 10/02/25)
Students/U18 - £10Tickets: 
You can also reserve tickets through a choir member or buy on the door (Earlybird price will not apply on the door).Description: 
Against the wonderful backdrop of Guildford Cathedral, Bracknell and Wokingham Choral Societies will perform The Dream of Gerontius, widely regarded as Elgar's finest choral work.
With 180 singers, 3 phenomenal professional soloists and 60-piece orchestra, underpinned by the Cathedral's mighty organ, this concert will be a not-to-be-missed performance of epic proportions.
As Elgar himself described it (quotating from John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies):
'This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another: my life was as the vapour and is not; but this I saw and knew; this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.'
Tenor: Jonathan Cooke
Mezzo soprano: Felicity Buckland
Bass: Patrick Keefe
Organ: Ben Giddens
Chorus Master: Greg Hallam
With the British Sinfonietta directed by George de VoilDownload concert flyer.
