The Prison - SACD

- PART I. Close on Freedom
1 - The Prisoner communes with his Soul: 'I awoke in the middle of the night'. Andante - Più sostenuto - Più animato - Tempo I - Più animato - Meno mosso - Tempo I - Poco sostenuto - Adagio - Sostenuto - Più animato - Sostenuto - Adagio - 7:10min
2 - Voices sing of immortality: 'We are full of immortality'. Moderato - Poco meno mosso - Tempo I - Poco meno mosso - Sostenuto - Tempo I - 4:29min
3 - The Prisoner asks the secret of emnacipation: 'I was alone with the sorrow'. Sostenuto - Più animato - Poco sostenuto - Tempo I - Allegro - Andante - Allegro - Più mosso - 2:27min
4 - His Soul (echoed by Voices) replies: 'There is no secret'. Moderato - Andante tranquillo (not too slow) - Poco sostenuto - Tempo I - 3:26min
5 - He asks in what shape emancipation will come (Who are our saviours?): 'Will it return to me with the same face'. Quasi adagio - Più sostenuto - Allegro - Adagio - Molto largo - 1:36min
6 - The Voices reply: 'Others are elsewhere, under other names'. Allegro misteriosa - Poco più tranquillo - Tempo I - Sostenuto - Mno mossa - 3:38min
7 - Orchestral interlude: The first glimmer of Dawn. Andante - Allegro - Andante - Allegro - Tempo I - Allegro - 3:12min
8 - The Prisoner understands his own immortality: 'In the faint grey morning I hear'. Andante con moto - Poco men mosso - Sostenuto - (He sleeps.) 5:06min
- Part II. The Deliverance
9 - Chorale Prelude in the Prison Chapel (The Prisoner awakes). Andante - 3:59min
10 - His Soul tells him the end of the struggle is at hand. 'The struggle is over; the time has come'. Moderato - Più largo - Poco meno mosso - Adagio - 2:51min
11 - He hears his guests (the elements of his personality) moving to depart. 'I hear them overhead moving to depart'. Adagio no troppo 2:13min
12 - Pastorale: Sunset calm. A tempo - Allegro energica - Moderato 2:45min
13 - He disbands his ego. 'I disband myself'. Moderato con fuoco - Meno mosso - Tempo I - Sostenuto - 3:06min
14 - Voices sing (in Greek mode) the indestructibility of human passions. 'The laugher we have laughed'. Moderato - 2:01min
15 - Death calls him (The Last Post); glorying, he obeys the summons. 'For years you have been conning your lesson'. Andante - Adagio - Meno adagio - Allegro - Adagio - Allegro non troppo (ma con fuoco) - Quasi adagio - Poco più mosso- Allegro - 5:13min
16 - His farewell; his triumph, his peace. 'This is no leavetaking'. L'istesso movimento - Poco animato - Adagio - Andante - Allegro - Poco sostenuto - Andante - Allegretto no troppo - Poco meno mosso - Allegretto - Poco meno mosso - Moderato - Più tranquillo - PiÚ tento - Largo - Bugle Call - A tempo (sempre tranquillando)