full score LOST

Vocal score:   Prologue commenced 10 November 1937 and completed 28 November 1937
Act I, pencil rough sketches completed Christmas Eve 1938, inked in and actually completed (VS) 22 March 1939.
Act II commenced March 31 1939, broken off 26 August 1939;   resumed 27 November 1941, pencil sketches completed May 1942, ink copying completed (VS) June 24 1942.
Full score finished September 1944

7 soprano, 3 mezzo, 5 alto, 5 tenor, 2 baritone, 3 bass soloists (doublings are possible)
2 SATB choruses, SAATB semichorus, SSAA semichorus
large orchestra

Text:  Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus unbound, parts 1 and 2 set complete

Act I  148pp of VS  [1687 bars] (131´)
Act II  127pp of VS  [1649 bars] (117´)

Article

Reward for rediscovery of Brian's lost scores - press coverage

Derived works

Chorus from Act I (unaccompanied)

Three semichoruses from Act II scene 2  (15´)
1 for SAATB (unaccompanied)
2 for SSAA (with fute and harp)
3 for SATB (unaccompanied)

Performances

Never performed in full

Semichoruses from Act II, Nos 1 and 3
25 June 1983 [first performance] . Sixth Festival of British Music . South Hill Park, Bracknell 
Tudor Singers, conductor Michael Smedley 

Chorus from Act I, semichoruses 1-3 from Act II
27 March 2002 [recording] [first performance of Act I chorus, and Act II no 2 chorus]
26 May 2002 [broadcast by BBC R3] .  St Paul's . Knightsbridge . London
Sioned Williams (harp), ? (flute), BBC Singers, conductor Dominic Wheeler

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