A Child of our Time - Tippett; BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis, Pumeza Matshikiza, Sarah Connolly, Joshua Stewart & Ashley Riches

A Child of our Time

Album by Tippett; BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis, Pumeza Matshikiza, Sarah Connolly, Joshua Stewart & Ashley Riches

Released 3 May 2024

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1
A Child of our Time, Part I: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
3:38
2
A Child of our Time, Part I: The Argument. Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)
Sir Michael Tippett
2:03
3
A Child of our Time, Part I: Interludium
Sir Michael Tippett
0:55
4
A Child of our Time, Part I: Is evil then good? (Alto, Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
2:56
5
A Child of our Time, Part I: The Narrator. Now in each nation there were some cast out… (Bass)
Sir Michael Tippett
1:04
6
A Child of our Time, Part I: Chorus of the Oppressed. When shall the usurer’s city cease? (Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
2:27
7
A Child of our Time, Part I: I have no money for my bread (Tenor)
Sir Michael Tippett
3:33
8
A Child of our Time, Part I: How can I cherish my man in such days…? (Soprano)
Sir Michael Tippett
3:15
9
A Child of our Time, Part I: A Spiritual. Steal away (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
2:31
10
A Child of our Time, Part II: A star rises in mid‐winter (Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
2:42
11
A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. And a time came… (Bass)
Sir Michael Tippett
0:18
12
A Child of our Time, Part II: Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted. Away with them! (Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
1:02
13
A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)
Sir Michael Tippett
0:24
14
A Child of our Time, Part II: Chorus of the Self‐righteous. We cannot have them in our Empire (Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
0:48
15
A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. And the boy’s mother wrote a letter… (Bass)
Sir Michael Tippett
0:14
16
A Child of our Time, Part II: The Mother, the Uncle and Aunt, and the Boy. O my son! (Soloists)
Sir Michael Tippett
1:12
17
A Child of our Time, Part II: A Spiritual. Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
1:23
18
A Child of our Time, Part II: The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Alto, Bass)
Sir Michael Tippett
1:18
19
A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)
Sir Michael Tippett
0:23
20
A Child of our Time, Part II: The Terror. Burn down their houses! (Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
1:10
21
A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)
Sir Michael Tippett
0:34
22
A Child of our Time, Part II: A Spiritual of Anger. Go down, Moses (Bass, Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
2:30
23
A Child of our Time, Part II: The Boy sings in his Prison. My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor)
Sir Michael Tippett
3:02
24
A Child of our Time, Part II: The Mother. What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)
Sir Michael Tippett
1:39
25
A Child of our Time, Part II: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)
Sir Michael Tippett
0:40
26
A Child of our Time, Part II: A Spiritual. O! by and by (Soprano, Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
1:32
27
A Child of our Time, Part III: The cold deepens (Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
3:38
28
A Child of our Time, Part III: The soul of man is impassioned… (Alto)
Sir Michael Tippett
2:25
29
A Child of our Time, Part III: The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
4:59
30
A Child of our Time, Part III: Preludium
Sir Michael Tippett
1:05
31
A Child of our Time, Part III: I would know my shadow and my light (Soloists, Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
4:56
32
A Child of our Time, Part III: A Spiritual. Deep river (Soloists, Chorus)
Sir Michael Tippett
3:14