A Child of Our Time

Album by Sir Michael Tippett & Jessye Norman & Dame Janet Baker & Richard Cassilly & John Shirley‐Quirk & BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

A Child of Our Time is an oratorio by English composer Michael Tippett, composed between 1939 and 1941 and first performed in 1944. The work combines elements of the Baroque oratorio tradition with twentieth-century harmonic language and references to African-American spirituals, using choral and orchestral forces to address themes of oppression and collective conscience and marking Tippett's emergence in mid-20th-century British music.

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

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