Harvey Brough: Thecla - An Oratorio - Smudged Discs: SMU609 - CD

Release Date: 19th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: SMU609
Label: Smudged Discs
Length: 72 minutes

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Brough: Thecla

Work length1:00:21

Vox Holloway, David Le Page Ensemble, Harvey Brough

I. This Is Iconic

Track length4:57

II. Paul

Track length3:13

III. O Nata Lux

Track length6:59

IV. Though I Speak with the Tongues of Men

Track length5:42

V. I'm Losing My Love

Track length5:22

VI. Gaoler

Track length1:41

VII. Death Where Is Thy Sting

Track length2:14

VIII. Burn Her!

Track length3:19

IX. Come Death

Track length5:51

X. Alexander

Track length3:22

XI. Wade in the Water

Track length3:06

XII. Lion's Den

Track length2:58

XIII. Lilies of the Field

Track length4:54

XIV. And Now Abideth Faith, Hope and Love

Track length6:43

Brough: Linguis

Work length12:08

Vox Holloway, David Le Page Ensemble, Harvey Brough

I. It's a Curious Fact

Track length2:13

II. Cats

Track length1:59

III. Birds

Track length0:58

IV. Mighty Oaks

Track length1:24

V. Stars

Track length1:35

VI. Dogs

Track length1:30

VII. It's a Curious Fact

Track length2:29

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'Thecla' is a contemporary oratorio by British composer Harvey Brough with libretto by James Runcie, featuring soloists Clara Sanabras, Mark le Brocq in the roles of Thecla and St Paul. The story of Thecla, a modern heroine of the ancient world, as documented in the Apocrypha is about faith in both good and bad ways. Thecla's faith gives her the courage to upset the establishment and pursue what she thinks is the right spiritual path in the company of Paul. Most everybody else in the piece puts their faith in the way things have always been done: a patriarchal system, which Thecla defies. Their faith leads them to whip themselves up into a frenzy and sentence her to a cruel and shocking death, not once, but twice."

Harvey Brough: Thecla - An Oratorio

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