James Blachly, Experiential Orchestra & Chorus - Ethel Smyth: The Prison (2020)
James Blachly, Experiential Orchestra & Chorus - Ethel Smyth: The Prison (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 298 Mb | Total time: 64:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHSA 5279 | Recorded: 2019
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 298 Mb | Total time: 64:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHSA 5279 | Recorded: 2019
August 18th marks the 100th anniversary of th e 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting women in the US the right to vote. A fitting time then for our release of the World Premier Recording of Ethel Smyths late masterpiece The Prison. Smyth left home at nineteen to study composition in Leipzig. In the company of Clara Schumann and her teacher Heinrich von Herzogenberg, she met and won the admiration of composers such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvoák, and Grieg. Smyth was the first woman to have an opera performed at the Met, in 1903. (The second was Kaija Saariaho, whose L'Amour de loin appeared there in 2016!) Smyth later became central to the Suffragette movement in England, writing the March of the Women. Her gender politics and sexuality were cause for attacks by critics, and she famously went to prison herself for throwing a stone through an MPs window. Composed in 1930 and premiered in 1931 in Edinburghs Usher Hall, The Prison is a Symphony in two parts, Close on Freedom and The Deliverance, set for soprano and bass-baritone soloists, chorus, and full orchestra. The text is taken from a philosophical work by Henry Bennet Brewster and concerns the writings of a prisoner in solitary confinement, his reflections on life and his preparations for death.
Performer:
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone (The Prisoner)
Sarah Brailey, soprano (His Soul)
Experiential Chorus (Voices)
Experiential Orchestra
James Blachly, conductor
Tracklist:
Ethel Mary Smyth (1858 – 1944)
The Prison (1930)
Part I. Close on Freedom
01. The Prisoner communes with his Soul: 'I awoke in the middle of the night'.
02. Voices sing of immortality: 'We are full of immortality'.
03. The Prisoner asks the secret of emancipation: 'I was alone with sorrow'.
04. His Soul (echosed by Voices) replies: 'There is no secret'.
05. He asks in what shape emancipation will come ('Who are our saviours?'): 'Will it return to me with the same face'.
06. The Voices reply: 'Others are elsewhere, under other names'.
07. Orchestral Interlude: The first glimmer of Dawn, Andante -
08. The Prisoner understands his own immortality: 'In the faint grey morning I hear'.
Part II. The Deliverance
09. Chorale Prelude in the Prison Chapel (The Prisoner awakes.).
10. His Soul tells him the end of the struggle is at hand. 'The struggle is over; the time has come'.
11. He hears his guests (the elements of his personality) moving to depart. 'I hear them overhead moving to depart'.
12. Pastorale: Sunset calm.
13. He disbands his ego. 'I disband myself'.
14. Voices sing (in Greek mode) the indestructibility of human passions. 'The laughter we have laughed'.
15. Death calls him (The Last Post); gloring, he obeys the summons. 'For years you have been conning your lesson'.
16. His farewell; his triumph; his peace. 'This is no leavetaking'.
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James Blachly, Experiential Orchestra & Chorus - Ethel Smyth: The Prison (2020)
Thanks to the original releaser