Smyth: The Prison

"Smyth: The Prison album by Dame Ethel Smyth on Archodia Music"

Release Date: 2020-08-01T00:00:00.000000Z

  • The Prison, Pt. 1. Close on Freedom: The Prisoner communes with his Soul "I awoke in the middle of the night"
  • The Prison, Pt. 1. Close on Freedom: Voices sing of immortality "We are full of immortality"
  • The Prison, Pt. 1. Close on Freedom: The Prisoner asks the secret of emancipation "I was alone with sorrow"
  • The Prison, Pt. 1. Close on Freedom: His Soul (echosed by Voices) replies "There is no secret"
  • The Prison, Pt. 1. Close on Freedom: He asks in what shape emancipation will come (Who are our saviours?) "Will it return to me w
  • The Prison, Pt. 1. Close on Freedom: The Voices reply "Others are elsewhere, under other names"
  • The Prison, Pt. 1. Close on Freedom: Orchestral Interlude. The first glimmer of Dawn
  • The Prison, Pt. 1. Close on Freedom: The Prisoner understands his own immortality "In the faint grey morning I hear"
  • The Prison, Pt. 2. The Deliverance: Chorale Prelude in the Prison Chapel (The Prisoner awakes)
  • The Prison, Pt. 2. The Deliverance: His Soul tells him the end of the struggle is at hand "The struggle is over. the time has co
  • The Prison, Pt. 2. The Deliverance: He hears his guests (the elements of his personality) moving to depart "I hear them overhead
  • The Prison, Pt. 2. The Deliverance: Pastorale. Sunset calm.
  • The Prison, Pt. 2. The Deliverance: He disbands his ego "I disband myself"
  • The Prison, Pt. 2. The Deliverance: Voices sing (in Greek mode) the indestructibility of human passions "The laughter we have la
  • The Prison, Pt. 2. The Deliverance: Death calls him (The Last Post) - Gloring, he obeys the summons "For years you have been con
  • The Prison, Pt. 2. The Deliverance: His farewell, his triumph, his peace "This is no leavetaking"