A Child of Our Time / The Knot Garden

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Boyhood's End

  Sir Michael Tippett
  11:08
• 2
  The Heart's Assurance: Song

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:35
• 3
  The Heart's Assurance: The Heart's Assurance

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:57
• 4
  The Heart's Assurance: Compassion

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:53
• 5
  The Heart's Assurance: The Dancer

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:59
• 6
  The Heart's Assurance: Remember your lovers

  Sir Michael Tippett
  5:54
• 7
  Dance, Clarion Air

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:56
• 8
  The Source

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:24
• 9
  The Windhover

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:20
• 10
  Lullaby

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:07
• 11
  Bonny at Mom

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:53
• 12
  Four Songs from the British Isles: England - Early one morning

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:48
• 13
  Four Songs from the British Isles: Ireland - Liliburlero

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:40
• 14
  Four Songs from the British Isles: Scotland - Poortith Cauld

  Sir Michael Tippett
  5:34
• 15
  Four Songs from the British Isles: Wales - Gwenllian

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:55
• 16
  Magnificat and Nunc dimittis

  Sir Michael Tippett
  7:35
• 17
  Plebs angelica

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:22
• 18
  The Weeping Babe

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:31
• 19
  Music

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:49
• CD 2
• 1
  A Child of Our Time: Part One: The world turns on its dark side

  Sir Michael Tippett
  5:00
• 2
  A Child of Our Time: Part One: Man has measured the heavens

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:54
• 3
  A Child of Our Time: Part One: Is evil then good?

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:59
• 4
  A Child of Our Time: Part One: Now in each nation

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:13
• 5
  A Child of Our Time: Part One: I have no money for my bread

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:12
• 6
  A Child of Our Time: Part One: How can I cherish my man in such days?

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:56
• 7
  A Child of Our Time: Part One: Spiritual: Steal away

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:11
• 8
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: A star rises in mid-winter

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:24
• 9
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: And a time came

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:23
• 10
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: O my son!

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:14
• 11
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: Spiritual: Nobody knows the trouble I see

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:14
• 12
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: The boy becomes desperate in his agony

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:22
• 13
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: They took a terrible vengeance

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:03
• 14
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: A Spiritual of Anger: Go down, Moses

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:57
• 15
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: My dreams are all shattered

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:09
• 16
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: What have I done to you, my son?...The dark forces rise like a flood

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:21
• 17
  A Child of Our Time: Part Two: Spiritual: O, by and by

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:16
• 18
  A Child of Our Time: Part Three: The cold deepens

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:49
• 19
  A Child of Our Time: Part Three: The soul of man

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:13
• 20
  A Child of Our Time: Part Three: The words of wisdom are these

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:20
• 21
  A Child of Our Time: Part Three: General Ensemble: I would know my shadow and my light

  Sir Michael Tippett
  5:51
• 22
  A Child of Our Time: Part Three: Spiritual: Deep river

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:35
• 23
  Five Spirituals from "A Child of Our Time": Steal away

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:27
• 24
  Five Spirituals from "A Child of Our Time": Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:18
• 25
  Five Spirituals from "A Child of Our Time": Go down, Moses

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:01
• 26
  Five Spirituals from "A Child of Our Time": O, by and by

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:08
• 27
  Five Spirituals from "A Child of Our Time": Deep river

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:19
• CD 3
• 1
  Songs for Achilles: In the tent

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:48
• 2
  Songs for Achilles: Across the plain

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:17
• 3
  Songs for Achilles: By the sea

  Sir Michael Tippett
  5:41
• 4
  Songs for Ariel: Come unto these yellow sands

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:52
• 5
  Songs for Ariel: Full fathom five

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:44
• 6
  Songs for Ariel: Where the bee sucks

  Sir Michael Tippett
  1:13
• 7
  Songs for Dov: I.

  Sir Michael Tippett
  6:02
• 8
  Songs for Dov: II.

  Sir Michael Tippett
  9:19
• 9
  Songs for Dov: III.

  Sir Michael Tippett
  12:11
• 10
  Byzantium: The unpurged images of day recede

  Sir Michael Tippett
  5:45
• 11
  Byzantium: Before me floats an image, man or shade

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:38
• 12
  Byzantium: Miracle, bird or golden handiwork

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:58
• 13
  Byzantium: At midnight on the Emperor's pavement

  Sir Michael Tippett
  6:10
• 14
  Byzantium: Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood

  Sir Michael Tippett
  6:31
• CD 4
• 1
  The Knot Garden: Act 1 "Confrontation": So if I dream

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:33
• 2
  The Knot Garden: Act 1 "Confrontation": What is it you do to Flora?

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:24
• 3
  The Knot Garden: Act 1 "Confrontation": You can pick roses

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:30
• 4
  The Knot Garden: Act 1 "Confrontation": If you think we're waxworks, you ought to pay

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:34
• 5
  The Knot Garden: Act 1 "Confrontation": Ca - Ca - Caliban

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:26
• 6
  The Knot Garden: Act 1 "Confrontation": O, you may starte in horror

  Sir Michael Tippett
  7:42
• 7
  The Knot Garden: Act 1 "Confrontation": Do, do not, do not torment me

  Sir Michael Tippett
  4:12
• 8
  The Knot Garden: Act 2 "Labyrinth": Fear! What do I fear?

  Sir Michael Tippett
  11:47
• 9
  The Knot Garden: Act 2 "Labyrinth": Flora: Flora, love; stop crying

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:53
• 10
  The Knot Garden: Act 2 "Labyrinth": I was born in a big town

  Sir Michael Tippett
  5:02
• 11
  The Knot Garden: Act 3 "Charade": You must both hold with me

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:26
• 12
  The Knot Garden: Act 3 "Charade": Ugh-ugh-ugh. - Whatever is that?

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:22
• 13
  The Knot Garden: Act 3 "Charade": Two unruly spirits born!

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:35
• 14
  The Knot Garden: Act 3 "Charade": Me!! O crude, o obscene

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:03
• 15
  The Knot Garden: Act 3 "Charade": And what are you, Mangus?

  Sir Michael Tippett
  2:56
• 16
  The Knot Garden: Act 3 "Charade": I am no more afraid

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:59
• 17
  The Knot Garden: Act 3 "Charade": Goodbye island: goodbye cave

  Sir Michael Tippett
  3:47
• 18
  The Knot Garden: Act 3 "Charade": Enough! Enough!

  Sir Michael Tippett
  8:21

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Release credits

• BBC Singers
  choir vocals [1, 3-4, 7-9, 11, 13-14, 17-18, 20-22]
• BBC Symphony Chorus
  choir vocals [1, 3-4, 7-9, 11, 13-14, 17-18, 20-22]
• BBC Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1-22]
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [10-14]
• Dame Janet Baker
  contralto vocals [2-3, 7, 10-12, 16-17, 19, 21-22], solo [2-3, 7, 10-12, 16-17, 19, 21-22]
• David Atherton
  conductor [7-9]
• Erik Smith
  producer [1-18]
• Faye Robinson
  soprano vocals [10-14]
• Jessye Norman
  solo [6-7, 10-11, 16-17, 21-22], soprano vocals [6-7, 10-11, 16-17, 21-22]
• Jill Gomez
  soprano vocals [1, 3-5, 7-9, 12, 15, 17-18]
• John Constable
  piano [1.1-6, 3.4-6]
• John Shirley‐Quirk
  bass vocals [4, 7, 9-14, 20-22], solo [4, 7, 9-14, 20-22]
• Josephine Barstow
  soprano vocals [6-8, 11, 13-14, 18]
• London Sinfonietta
  performing orchestra [7-9]
• Nicholas Cleobury
  conductor [2.23-27, 1.7-19]
• Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  performing orchestra [1-18]
• Philip Langridge
  tenor vocals [3.1-6, 1.1-6]
• Raimund Herincx
  baritone vocals [2, 5, 7-8, 15, 17-18]
• Richard Cassilly
  solo [5, 7, 10-11, 15, 21-22], tenor vocals [5, 7, 10-11, 15, 21-22]
• Robert Tear
  tenor vocals [3.7-9, 4.4-5, 4.7-10, 4.12, 4.14, 4.17-18]
• Schola Cantorum of Oxford
  choir vocals [1.7-19, 2.23-27]
• Sir Colin Davis
  conductor [2.1-22, 4.1-18]
• Sir Georg Solti
  conductor [10-14]
• Stephen Cleobury
  organ [8-10, 16-19], piano [7-15, 17-19]
• Thomas Carey
  bass-baritone vocals [4-5, 7-8, 10, 12, 14, 17-18]
• Thomas Hemsley
  baritone vocals [1-2, 5, 11-12, 15, 18]
• Timothy Walker
  guitar [1-3]
• Yvonne Minton
  mezzo-soprano vocals [1-3, 5, 7-8, 11, 13, 15-16, 18]
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Issues

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  A Child of Our Time / The Knot Garden

  4x CD
  2005