Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. The Music Makers: (Moderato e nobilmente)
2. The Music Makers: We Are The Music Makers
3. The Music Makers: With Wonderful Deathless Ditties
4. The Music Makers: We, In The Ages Lying
5. The Music Makers: A Breath Of Our Inspiration
6. The Music Makers: They Had No Vision Amazing
7. The Music Makers: And Therefore To-day Is Thrilling
8. The Music Makers: But We, With Our Dreaming And Singing
9. The Music Makers: For We Are Afar With The Dawning
10. The Music Makers: Great Hail! We Cry To The Comers
11. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Prelude (Lento, mistico--Moderato--Andantino--Come prima)
12. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Jesu, Maria - I Am Near To Death
13. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Kyrie eleison...Holy Mary, Pray For Him
14. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Rouse Thee, My Fainting Soul
15. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Be Merciful, Be Gracious
16. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Sanctis fortis, Sanctus Deus
17. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: I Can No More
18. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Rescue Him, O Lord
19. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Novissima hora est
20. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Proficiscere, anima Christiana
21. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part I: Go In The Name Of Angels

Disc 2:

1. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: (Andantino) - I went To Sleep
2. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: My Work Is Done
3. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: All Hail! My Child
4. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Low-Born Clods Of Brute Earth
5. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: It Is The Restless Panting Of Their Being
6. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: The Mind Bold And Independent
7. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: I See Not Those False Spirits
8. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Praise To The Holiest
9. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: The Sound Is Like The Rushing Of The Wind
10. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Glory To Him
11. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: They Sing Of Thy Approaching Agony
12. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: But Hark! A Grand Mysterious Harmony
13. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: And Now The Threshold
14. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Praise To The Holiest
15. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Thy Judgment Now Is Near
16. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Jesu! By That Shuddering Dread
17. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Be Merciful, Be Gracious
18. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Praise To His Name!
19. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Take Me Away
20. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge
21. The Dream Of Gerontius, Op. 38: Part II: Softly And Gently

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15481 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-05
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Dimensions: .27 pounds
• Running time: 135 minutes

Customer Reviews

A milestone
Very fine accounts by Sir Adrian Boult, excellent casts with a deeply felt Gerontius(Gedda). The Music Makers is a very inspired piece with several elgarian themes (paticularly moving the ones from Enigma Variations and from the Second Symphony) The recorded sound is superb.

tremendous
This is a well nigh perfect account of this towering masterpiece. Gedda's Italian tenor sounds just right for this work and he gives a performance of his life. Helen Watts is also excellent, as is Robert Lloyd. Boult's direction is masterful - he gives us Gerontius fairly straight (no exagerations or excesses) and it comes over more than ever as a work of stunning greatness .. deeply moving, inspiring and powerful. Recording, playing and the choir are all very fine. There are now quite a few great or very good accounts of this work before us - Barbirolli (with the sublime Janet Baker), Colid Davis (LSO Live), Britten (less emotional but very fine) and a new one from Mark Elder that I have not heard but that wins a lot of praise. This is perhaps the most all-round satisfying but I would not ever want to say that there is a best!