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• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Maestoso assai lento -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Prometheus: Monarch of Gods and Daemons. Maestoso ma non troppo
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Prometheus: Alas! Ah me!. Andante con moto - Piu moto -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Voice from the mountains: Thrice three hundred thousand years. Adagio -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Mercury: Awful sufferer!. [ ] - Sostenuto - Piu moto -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Chorus of Furies: Prometheus! Immortal Titan!. Allegro -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - The Earth: I felt thy torture son. Andante con moto - [ ] -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Chorus of Spirits: From unrememberd ages we. A tempo -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Prometheus: How fair these airborn shapes!. Piu moto ma poco
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Voices of Spirits: Life of Life!. Andante con moto moderato -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Contralto: Fair are others. Meno mosso - Sostenuto ad libitum
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Allegro moderato -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Jupiter: Awful shape what art thou?. Maestoso -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Jupiter: Oh that thou wouldst make mine enemy my judge.
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Andante -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Voices of unseen Spirits: The pale stars are gone!. Allegro comodo -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Spirits: We come from the mind. Andante - Piu lento - Poco piu mosso -
• Parry - Scenes from Shelleys Prometheus Unbound * - Chorus of Spirits and Hours: Then weave the web of the mystic measures.
• Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens - Blest Pair of Sirens

Scenes from Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
Blest Pair of Sirens

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.