" The title character is referred to as "the soul" during its second part, and converses with a priest during the first section.
The composer of this work quoted Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies in writing "This is the best of me... this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory" on the manuscript score. Recordings of this work by Barbirolli with Janet Baker and by Gladys Ripley pair it with the composer's song cycle Sea Pictures. The title character's final singing of "Sanctus fortis" is marked piangendo, and the title figure is told "Proficiscere, anima Christiana" after singing "Novissima ora est." This work's "Sleep" and "Judgment" themes were identified by August Jaeger, and "'Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul" is sung by the Angel at the end of this work, while the choir notably sings "'Praise to the Holiest in the height." The title character is referred to as "the soul" during its second part, and converses with a priest during the first section. For 10 points, name this oratorio whose libretto is taken from a poem by John Henry Newman, a work of Edward Elgar.
The composer of this work quoted Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies in writing "
The {Dream} of {Gerontius}