Elgar - Dream of Gerontius

 

 

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PART 1

2. Jesu Maria, I am near to death (22-29 [part])

3. Kyrie Eleison (29-32)

 

5. Be merciful, be gracious, spare him Lord (35-40 [part])

8. Rescue him, O Lord, in this his evil hour (63-66 [part])

11. Go, in the name of Angels and Archangels (72-78)

PART 2

 

16. Lowborn clods of brute earth

17. It is the restless panting of their being

18. The mind bold and independent

(032-055 [part])

20. Praise to the Holiest in the height

21. The sound is like the rushing of the wind

22. Glory to Him

23. They sing of thy approaching agony

24. But hark! a grand mysterious agony

25. And now the threshold as we traverse it

(068-074 [part])

26. Praise to the Holiest in the height (074-100)

29. Be merciful, be gracious, spare him, Lord

30. Praise to His name

31. Take me away

(114-125 [part])

32. Lord, Thou hast been our refuge

33. Softly and gently, dearly ransomed soul

34. Lord, Thou hast been our refuge

35. Praise to the Holiest

(125-137)