Tracklist

  • 1
    A Child of Our Time: Part 1: “The World Turns on Its Dark Side”
    Michael Tippett
    5:00
  • 2
    A Child of Our Time: Part 1: “Man Has Measured the Heavens”
    Michael Tippett
    1:53
  • 3
    A Child of Our Time: Part 1: “Is Evil Then Good?”
    Michael Tippett
    3:59
  • 4
    A Child of Our Time: Part 1: “Now in Each Nation” - “When Shall the Userer’s City Cease”
    Michael Tippett
    3:13
  • 5
    A Child of Our Time: Part 1: “I Have No Money for My Bread”
    Michael Tippett
    3:11
  • 6
    A Child of Our Time: Part 1: “How Can I Cherish My Man in Such Days…steal Away”
    Michael Tippett
    5:04
  • 7
    A Child of Our Time: Part 2: “A Star Rises in Mid‐Winter”
    Michael Tippett
    3:23
  • 8
    A Child of Our Time: Part 2: “And a Time Came”
    Michael Tippett
    2:23
  • 9
    A Child of Our Time: Part 2: “O My Son!”
    Michael Tippett
    1:13
  • 10
    A Child of Our Time: Part 2: “Nobody Knows the Trouble I See”
    Michael Tippett
    1:14
  • 11
    A Child of Our Time: Part 2: “The Boy Becomes Desperate in His Agony”
    Michael Tippett
    1:21
  • 12
    A Child of Our Time: Part 2: “They Took a Terrible Vengeance”
    Michael Tippett
    2:03
  • 13
    A Child of Our Time: Part 2: “Go Down, Moses”
    Michael Tippett
    2:56
  • 14
    A Child of Our Time: Part 2: “My Dreams Are All Shattered”
    Michael Tippett
    3:09
  • 15
    A Child of Our Time: Part 2: “What Have I Done to You, My Son? …O, by and by”
    Michael Tippett
    3:33
  • 16
    A Child of Our Time: Part 3: “The Cold Deepens”
    Michael Tippett
    4:49
  • 17
    A Child of Our Time: Part 3: “The Soul of Man”
    Michael Tippett
    2:12
  • 18
    A Child of Our Time: Part 3: “The Words of Wisdom Are These”
    Michael Tippett
    4:20
  • 19
    A Child of Our Time: Part 3: “I Would Know My Shadow and My Light”
    Michael Tippett
    5:53
  • 20
    A Child of Our Time: Part 3: “Deep River”
    Michael Tippett
    3:25

More by Michael Tippett, Jessye Norman, Janet Baker, Richard Cassilly, John Shirley‐Quirk, BBC Singers, BBC Choral Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

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