帕瑞: 薛利的 (解放了的普羅米修斯) 音樂場景 / 威廉．范 指揮 / 倫敦莫札特音樂家合奏團 (SACD)

作曲家: Sir Chares Hubert H. Parry
演出者: Sarah Fox (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), Neal Davies (baritone)
指揮家: William Vann
樂團: Crouch End Festival Chorus / London Mozart Players

Hubert Parry (1848 - 1918), regarded by many (including Edward Elgar) as the finest English composer since Purcell, and as the father of the modern English tradition, is best known for his hymn Jerusalem (immortalised by the Women's Institute and English cricket supporters alike!). His anthem I was glad, written for the coronation of Edward VII, in 1902, has been used also at the coronations of George V, Elizabeth II, and Charles III (who is a proclaimed fan of Parry's music). He taught composition at London's Royal College of Music from 1883 to 1895, when he succeeded Sir George Grove as director of the College, a post he held until his death. His distinguished list of pupils included Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge, and John Ireland. Inspired initially by the German romantics Mendelssohn and Schumann, Parry quickly became a devotee of Brahms and Wagner, whose influences can be heard in much of his output. But, from his earliest works, his own individual voice can be heard very clearly. Commissioned for the Three Choirs Festival, in Gloucester in 1880, his Scenes from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound is just such an early work. The premiere received a mixed reception, but despite numerous repeat performances, in Cambridge, Oxford, and London, all with rave reviews, the piece sank into obscurity. Vernon Handley gave a performance for BBC Radio 3 in 1980, to mark the centenary of the premiere, but this world premiere recording is the first chance for modern audiences to hear this outstanding work. Recorded in Surround Sound and available as a Hybrid SACD and in Dolby Atmos spatial audio.

SACD曲目:

SIR CHARLES HUBERT H. PARRY
premiere recording
Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound' *61:02
Dramatic Cantata
for Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra
Dedicated to C. Harford Lloyd, Esq.
Edited by Jeremy Dibble

Part I. Introduction
1.IMaestoso, assai lento -2:40
2.Prometheus: 'Monarch of Gods and Dæmons',. Maestoso, ma non troppo1:40
lento - Poco piu moto -
3.Prometheus: 'Alas! Ah me!'. Andante con moto - Piu moto -2:51
Tempo giusto - Sostenuto - Stringendo - Allegro -
4.Voice from the mountains: 'Thrice three hundred thousand years'. Adagio -2:00
5.Mercury: 'Awful sufferer!'. [ ] - Sostenuto - Piu moto -3:57
Molto sostenuto - Piu lento -
6.Chorus of Furies: 'Prometheus! Immortal Titan!'. Allegro -4:06
Con moto - Piu lento -
7.2The Earth: 'I felt thy torture, son'. Andante con moto - [ ] -2:59
Tempo I - Andante molto sostenuto -
8.Chorus of Spirits: 'From unremember'd ages we'. A tempo -4:19
9.Prometheus: 'How fair these airborn shapes!'. Piu moto, ma poco3:29
piu sostenuto - Sostenuto - A tempo piu sostenuto -
10.Voices of Spirits: 'Life of Life!'. Andante con moto moderato -2:53
11.Contralto: 'Fair are others'. Meno mosso - Sostenuto ad libitum3:37

Part II
Scene 1
12.3Allegro moderato -4:16
Jupiter: 'Ye congregated pow'rs of heav'n'. Slower -
Poco piu mosso - Poco meno mosso - Allegro [comodo] -
13.Jupiter: 'Awful shape, what art thou?'. Maestoso -2:27
Demogorgon: 'Eternity'. [ ] -
14.Jupiter: 'Oh, that thou wouldst make mine enemy my judge'.2:15
Allegro - Allegro molto - Largamente
15.4Andante -4:30
Spirit of the Hour: 'Soon as the sound had ceased'. [ ] -
[Poco] piu moto - [Piu moto ma giusto] - Poco sostenuto
16.5Voices of unseen Spirits: 'The pale stars are gone!'. Allegro comodo -7:03
Semichorus of Hours: 'The voice of the Spirits of Air and of Earth'. [ ] -
Chorus of Spirits: 'Weave the dance on the floor of the breeze'. Allegro
molto - Piu allegro - Presto -
Chorus of Hours: 'Whence come ye, so wild and so fleet'.
Allegro moderato -
17.Spirits: 'We come from the mind'. Andante - Piu lento - Poco piu mosso -2:20
18.Chorus of Spirits and Hours: 'Then weave the web of the mystic measures'.3:33
Allegro moderato - Piu moto ed accelerando -
Allegro molto [tempo giusto] - [Alla breve]

19.Blest Pair of Sirens 9:41
in E-flat Major • in Es-Dur • en mi bemol majeur
(At a Solemn Musick)
An Ode
for Chorus and Orchestra
To Charles Villiers Stanford and the members of the Bach Choir
Allegro moderto, ma energico -
Animando - Animandosi - Piu moto -
Tempo I - Meno mosso, ma non troppo lento -
Allegro - Piu mosso

Total time: 70:36