Composer: C. Hubert H. ParryLibrettist: Percy Bysshe ShelleyYear of Composition: 1880Premiere Performance: Three Choirs Festival (Gloucester), September 7, 1880Duration: 58 minutes (approx.)Voices: SATB soli and SATB chorusInstrumentation: 2(II=picc).2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn – 4.2.3.1 – hp – timp - stringsAutograph Manuscript: Royal College of Music, London MS 4212View Autograph ManuscriptVocal Score: Novello Octavo Edition no. 6075Date Added to EHMS: August 4, 2020

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Additional Information: In September 2022, the London English Song Festival partnered with Chandos Records to make the world premiere recording of Parry's cantata Prometheus Unbound. The recording features Sarah Fox soprano: Spirit of the Hour, Dame Sarah Connolly DBE mezzo-soprano: The Earth, David Butt Philip tenor: Jupiter & Mercury, Neal Davies bass-baritone: Prometheus, the Crouch End Festival Chorus and the London Mozart Players under the direction of William Vann. The CD (CHAN 5317) was released in September 2023 and may be purchased online at www.chandos.net. For more information on the recording and on how to support the London English Song Festival's groundbreaking work to revive and record lost or forgotten works of British choral music and song, please visit londonenglishsongfestival.org