Prom 37: Hallé/Elder – review

Royal Albert Hall, London"Our life", sings Judas in Elgar's grand oratorio The Apostles, "is short and tedious". The same cannot be said of the work itself. At two hours long, and with decidedly mixed levels of artistic interest bound together with a bewildering compilation of increasingly gnomic biblical nuggets, it is not short.Still, there should be a place at the Proms for second-rate choral extravaganzas, particularly if they're by Elgar. There are few forces better guaranteed to make the b...

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