The Kingdom | Classical review

Gloucester CathedralNo matter that the £20 notes bearing his face have been withdrawn from circulation, Edward Elgar still reigns supreme at the Three Choirs festival. Adrian Partington, in his first stint as artistic director at Gloucester, reinforced the association by making The Kingdom the single work of this year's opening night.Central to the nature of Elgar's major choral works is the composer's deeply rooted Catholicism. The fact that, in 1901, it was Gloucester Cathedral's dean who ban...

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