Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra - Smyth - The Prison (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

August 18th marks the 100th anniversary of the 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, Dvorák, 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.

TRACKLIST

01. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 1, Close on Freedom. The Prisoner Communes with His Soul
02. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 2, Voices Sing of Immortality
03. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 3, The Prisoner Askes the Secret of Emancipation
04. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 4, His Soul Replies
05. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 5, He Asks In What Shape Emancipation Will Come
06. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 6, The Voices Reply
07. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 7, Orchestral Interlude. The First Glimmer of Dawn
08. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 8, The Prisoner Understands His Own Immortality
09. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 9, The Deliverance. The Prisoner Awakes
10. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 10, His Soul Tells Him the End of the Struggle Is At Hand
11. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 11, He Hears His Guests Moving to Depart
12. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 12, Pastoral. Sunset Calm
13. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 13, He Disbands His Ego
14. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 14, Voices Sing the Indestructibility of Human Passions
15. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 15, Death Calls Him. Gloring, He Obeys the Summons
16. Sarah Brailey, Dashon Burton, Experiential Orchestra & James Blachly - The Prison: No. 16, His Farewell - His Triumph - His Peace



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