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PARRY: Invocation to Music / The Soul's Ransom / The Lotos-Eaters / Blest Pair of Sirens


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Track Details

Disc 1

The Soul's Ransom- 00:47:01
1 Section 1: Introduction: Lento — 00:04:17
2 Section 1: Who can number the sands of sea (Chorus) 00:08:17
3 Section 2: Hear ye this, O ye people (Bass) 00:04:21
4 Section 2: We look for light, but behold the darkness (Chorus) 00:03:21
5 Section 2: Why are ye so fearful, O ye of little faith? (Soprano, Chorus) 00:07:10
6 Section 3: The hand of the Lord was upon me (Bass, Chorus) 00:09:29
7 Section 4: The people that walked in darkness (Soprano) 00:05:00
8 Section 4: See now, ye that love the light (Chorus) 00:05:06
The Lotos-Eaters- 00:32:38
9 There is music here that softer falls (Chorus) 00:03:36
10 Why are we weigh'd upon with heaviness (Chorus) 00:01:39
11 Lo! in the middle of the wood (Soprano) 00:02:40
12 Hateful is the dark-blue sky (Chorus) 00:02:23
13 How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream (Soprano) 00:04:25
14 Dear is the memory of our wedded lives (Chorus) 00:04:28
15 But, propt on beds of amaranth and moly (Soprano) 00:02:20
16 The Lotos blooms below the barren peak (Chorus, Soprano) 00:11:07

Disc 2

1 Blest Pair of Sirens- 00:11:53
Invocation to Music- 00:54:39
2 Introduction - Myriad voiced Queen! (Chorus) 00:05:10
3 Turn, O return (Chorus, Soprano) 00:04:05
4 Thee, fair Poetry oft hath sought (Tenor) 00:04:33
5 The monstrous sea (Chorus) 00:05:34
6 Love to Love calleth (Soprano, Tenor) 00:05:17
7 Dirge: To me, to me, fair-hearted Goddess, come! (Bass) 00:08:05
8 Man, born of desire (Chorus) 00:04:55
9 Rejoice, ye dead, where'er your spirits dwell (Soprano, Chorus) 00:06:10
10 O enter with me the gates of delight (Soprano, Tenor and Bass) 00:05:41
11 Thou, O Queen of sinless grace (Chorus) 00:05:09
12 I was glad- 00:07:10