The Prison

? LIKE and SUBSCRIBE for more score videos! → youtube.com/StefanoPaparozzi ? SUBSCRIBE to my PATREON! → patreon.com/spscorevideos ? PAYPAL for free donations! → paypal.me/stepaparozzi Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) The Prison (1930) Symphony for Soprano and Bass-Baritone soli, Chorus and Orchestra Part I – Close on Freedom. The Prisoner communes with his Soul: "I awoke in the middle of the night" [00:00] Voices sing of immortality: "We are full of immortality" [07:10] The Prisoner asks the secret of emancipation: "I was alone with sorrow" [11:39] His Soul (echosed by Voices) replies: "There is no secret" [14:08] He asks in what shape emancipation will come ("Who are our saviours?"): "Will it return to me with the same face" [17:33] The Voices reply: "Others are elsewhere, under other names" [19:10] Orchestral Interlude: The first glimmer of Dawn (Andante – Allegro) [22:48] The Prisoner understands his own immortality: "In the faint grey morning I hear" [26:00] Part II – The Deliverance. Chorale Prelude in the Prison Chapel (The Prisoner awakes) [31:11] His Soul tells him the end of the struggle is at hand. "The struggle is over; the time has come" [35:09] He hears his guests (the elements of his personality) moving to depart. "I hear them overhead moving to depart" [38:00] Pastorale: Sunset calm [40:14] He disbands his ego. "I disband myself" [43:00] Voices sing (in Greek mode) the indestructibility of human passions. "The laughter we have laughed" [46:06] Death calls him (The Last Post); gloring, he obeys the summons. "For years you have been conning your lesson" [48:07] His farewell; his triumph; his peace. "This is no leavetaking" [53:21] Audio from: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m2OKlndUsgvEqpEXwZ6WA9yBL5-fdC2R0 Score from: https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Prison_(Smyth%2C_Ethel)