Poster of Cast and Crew in BBC Proms - First Night of the Proms: The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar (Season 45 - Episode 1) - First Night of the Proms: The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar

BBC Proms - Season 45 - First Night of the Proms: The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar (Episode 1)

Plot: 'This is the best of me. ' So wrote Elgar at the end of his score and, despite a disastrous first performance in 1900, his setting of Newman's poem is now regarded as one of the composer's finest works
Episode Aired On:
Friday, July 19 1991
34 years ago