Release Date: 26 April 2019
Label: Smudged Discs
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5065001711091
Release Date: 26 April 2019
Label: Smudged Discs
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5065001711091
Description
'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."
Tracklisting
Clara Sanabras
Clara Sanabras
Harvey Brough
Harvey Brough
Clara Sanabras
Harvey Brough
Harvey Brough
Harvey Brough, Clara Sanabras & Christina Gill
Harvey Brough
Harvey Brough, Clara Sanabras & Christina Gill
Harvey Brough
Harvey Brough