Scenes from Shelley’s ‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1880)
William Vann, London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Sarah Fox (Soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (Tenor), Neal Davies (Bass-baritone), James Orford (Organ)
2022, London, St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb
Part I
- 02:41No. 1 Maestoso, assai lento
- 01:40No. 2 'Monarch of Gods and Dæmons' (Prometheus)
- 02:51No. 3 'Alas! Ah me!' (Prometheus)
- 02:00No. 4 'Thrice three hundred thousand years' (Voice from the Mountains)
- 03:57No. 5 'Awful sufferer!' (Mercury)
- 04:06No. 6 'Prometheus! Immortal Titan!' (Chorus of Furies)
- 02:59No. 7 'I felt thy torture, son' (The Earth)
- 04:19No. 8 'From unremember'd ages we' (Chorus of Spirits)
- 03:30No. 9 'How fair these airborn shapes!' (Prometheus)
- 02:53No. 10 'Life of Life!' (Voices of Spirits)
- 03:38No. 11 'Fair are others' (Contralto)
Part II
- 04:16No. 12 Allegro moderato – 'Ye congregated pow'rs of heav'n' (Jupiter)
- 02:27No. 13 'Awful shape, what art thou?' (Jupiter) – 'Eternity' (Demogorgon)
- 02:16No. 14 'Oh, that thou wouldst make mine enemy my judge' (Jupiter)
- 04:31No. 15 'Soon as the sound had ceased' (Spirit of the Hour)
- 07:03No. 16 'The pale stars are gone!' (Voice of unseen Spirits) – 'The voice of the Spirits of Air and of Earth' (Semichorus of Hours)
- 02:20No. 17 'We come from the mind' (Spirits)
- 03:38No. 18 'Then weave the web of the mystic measure' (Chorus of Spirits and Hours)
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