{"product_id":"smyth-brailey-blachly-prison","title":"Smyth \/ Brailey \/ Blachly- Prison (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAugust 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 Smyth's 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 MP's window. Composed in 1930 and premiered in 1931 in Edinburgh's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 1, Close On Freedom. The Prisoner Communes With His Soul\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 2, Voices Sing Of Immortality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 3, The Prisoner Askes The Secret Of Emancipation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 4, His Soul Replies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 5, He Asks In What Shape Emancipation Will Come\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 6, The Voices Reply\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 7, Orchestral Interlude. The First Glimmer Of Dawn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 8, The Prisoner Understands His Own Immortality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 9, The Deliverance. The Prisoner Awakes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 10, His Soul Tells Him The End Of The Struggle Is At Hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 11, He Hears His Guests Moving To Depart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 12, Pastoral. Sunset Calm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 13, He Disbands His Ego\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 14, Voices Sing The Indestructibility Of Human Passions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 15, Death Calls Him. Gloring, He Obeys The Summons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Prison: No. 16, His Farewell - His Triumph - His Peace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46984446214365,"sku":"095115527924","price":165.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3829549-2585659.jpg?v=1762927376","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/products\/smyth-brailey-blachly-prison","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}