Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Pinpointing the exact moment of conception of a work of art is rarely easy.

The Apostles is the biggest creative achievement of the man who has some claim to the premier place in English music. It might well be argued on that basis alone that here is the greatest musical work ...

Dr. Elgar has wrought his music, with all the means that the most modern developments of the art has put at his disposal. He has devised for “The Apostles” an enormous apparatus. Holding chief place ...

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Mark Elder and the Hallé have already made magnificent recordings of Elgar's two other great oratorios, The Dream of Gerontius and The Kingdom, and like those, this new version of The Apostles is ...

American Symphony Orchestra presents Elgar's oratorio The Apostles on Friday, May 12, 2017, the final performance of its four-concert series at Carnegie Hall this season. Music director Leon Botstein ...

Elgar'S oratorio The Apostles, regarded as one of the pinnacles of the composer's career, celebrates its centenary this year. To mark the occasion, author Michael Foster is bringing out Plotting ...

The Apostles by Elgar, wherein the story of the Gospel is told, formed the first choral concert of the 2008 Three Choirs Festival. Immediately the Prologue began it was obvious that this was going to ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule THE APOSTLES - Synopsis The mood is very different at the opening of Part 2.

Of the two parts of his projected oratorio trilogy Elgar completed, it's the second, The Kingdom, that is generally the more highly rated; the first, The Apostles, is performed much less often. Mark ...

Pinpointing the exact moment of conception of a work of art is rarely easy. But, for Elgar, there was a clearly defined event that set his creative imagination working on the subject of the Apostles.

The mood is very different at the opening of Part 2. A solemn orchestral prelude leads to the scene of Christ’s betrayal. A choral recitative sets up the opposition of the authorities to Jesus’ ...