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NA 7570
TIPPETT: Child of Our Time (A)
Label Catalogue Number:
8.557570
8.557570
Running Time: 69:18
Digital UPC: 0747313257027
Release Date: February 2005
Originally recorded in 2008
Release Date: February 2005
Originally recorded in 2008
Composer
Sir Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Tippett
Solo soprano
Faye Robinson
Faye Robinson
Solo mezzo-soprano
Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker
Solo tenor
Jon Garrison
Jon Garrison
Solo bass
John Cheek
John Cheek
Chorus Master choirmaster
Simon Halsey
Simon Halsey
Orchestra
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Choral
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Conductor
Sir Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Tippett
Genre:
Classical
Classical
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SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
A Child of our Time
1.
Part 1: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)
4:05
2.
Part 1: The Argument - Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)
2:14
3.
Part 1: Interludium - Scena - Is evil then good? (Chorus and Alto)
4:13
4.
Part 1: The Narrator - Now in each nation there were some cast out (Bass)
1:18
5.
Part 1: Chorus of the Oppressed - When shall the usurers' city cease
2:21
6.
Part 1: I have no money for my bread (Tenor)
3:25
7.
Part 1: How can I cherish my man in such days (Soprano)
3:33
8.
Part 1: A Spiritual - Steal away (Chorus and Soli)
2:32
9.
Part 2: A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus)
3:27
10.
Part 2: The Narrator - And a time came (Bass)
0:19
11.
Part 2: Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted - Away with them! (Double Chorus)
1:00
12.
Part 2: The Narrator - Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)
0:29
13.
Part 2: Chorus of the Self-righteous - We cannot have them in our Empire
0:48
14.
Part 2: The Narrator - And the boy's mother wrote a letter (Bass)
0:16
15.
Part 2: Scena - O my son! (Soloists)
1:23
16.
Part 2: A Spiritual - Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Chorus and Soli)
1:36
17.
Part 2: Scena - The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Bass, Alto)
1:30
18.
Part 2: The Narrator - They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)
0:29
19.
Part 2: The Terror - Burn down their houses! (Chorus)
1:06
20.
Part 2: The Narrator - Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)
0:39
21.
Part 2: A Spiritual of Anger - Go down, Moses (Chorus and Bass)
3:08
22.
Part 2: The boy sings in his prison - My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor)
3:45
23.
Part 2: The Mother - What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)
1:36
24.
Part 2: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)
0:52
25.
Part 2: A Spiritual - O, by and by (Chorus and Soprano)
1:28
26.
Part 3: The cold deepens (Chorus)
4:20
27.
Part 3: The soul of man is impassioned like a woman (Alto)
2:28
28.
Part 3: Scena - The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)
4:55
29.
Part 3: Preludium - I would know my shadow and my light (Chorus and Soli)
6:32
30.
Part 3: A Spiritual - Deep river, my home is over Jordan (Chorus and Soli)
3:31
Solo: Faye Robinson soprano
Solo: Sarah Walker mezzo-soprano
Solo: Jon Garrison tenor
Solo: John Cheek bass
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Choral: City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Conductor: Sir Michael Tippett
