A Child of Our Time

Album by Sir Michael Tippett & Jill Gomez & Helen Watts & Kenneth Woollam & John Shirley‐Quirk & BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra & Gennadi Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky

A Child of Our Time is an oratorio by English composer Michael Tippett, completed in 1941 and first performed in 1944. The work pairs large-scale choral and orchestral forces with interspersed arrangements of African-American spirituals within a structure modelled on Bach's Passions, and it was Tippett's first major choral-orchestral work, marking a significant early milestone in his career and in British music of the 1940s.
First released: 1995

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 1. Chorus: The World Turns on Its Dark Side
    3:54
  2. 2.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 2. The Argument: Man Has Measured the Heavens. Interludium
    3:02
  3. 3.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 3. Scena: Is Evil Then Good?
    2:49
  4. 4.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 4. The Narrator: Now in Each Nation
    1:05
  5. 5.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 5. Chorus of the Oppressed: When Shall the Userers' City Cease
    2:39
  6. 6.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 6. Tenor Solo: I Have No Money for My Bread
    3:01
  7. 7.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 7. Soprano Solo: How Can I Cherish My Man in Such Days
    3:17
  8. 8.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 8. A Spiritual: Steal Away
    2:37
  9. 9.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 9. Chorus: A Star Rises in Mid-Winter
    2:40
  10. 10.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 10. The Narrator: And a Time Came
    0:20
  11. 11.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 11. Chorus of the Persecutors and the Persecuted: Away With Them!
    0:59
  12. 12.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 12. The Narrator: Where They Could, They Fled
    0:24
  13. 13.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 13. Chorus of the Self-Righteous: We Cannot Have Them in Our Empire
    0:46
  14. 14.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 14. The Narrator: And the Boys Mother Wrote a Letter
    0:10
  15. 15.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 15. Scena: O My Son!
    1:14
  16. 16.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 16. A Spiritual: Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord
    1:21
  17. 17.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 17. Scena: The Boy Becomes Desperate in His Agony
    1:15
  18. 18.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 18. The Narrator: They Took a Terrible Vengeance
    0:24
  19. 19.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 19. The Terror: Burn Down Their Houses!
    1:10
  20. 20.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 20. The Narrator: Men Were Ashamed of What Was Done
    0:31
  21. 21.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 21. A Spiritual of Anger: Go Down, Moses
    2:36
  22. 22.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 22. The Boy Sings in His Prison: My Dreams Are All Shattered
    2:56
  23. 23.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 23. The Mother: What Have I Done to You, My Son?
    1:56
  24. 24.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 24. Alto Solo: The Dark Forces Rise Like a Flood
    0:45
  25. 25.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 25. A Spiritual: O, by and By
    1:27
  26. 26.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 26. Chorus: The Cold Deepens
    3:39
  27. 27.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 27. Alto Solo: The Soul of a Man
    2:23
  28. 28.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 28. Scena: The Word of Wisdom Are These
    4:02
  29. 29.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 29. Preludium
    0:56
  30. 30.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 30. General Ensemble: I Would Know My Shadow My Shadow and My Light
    3:45
  31. 31.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 31. A Spiritual: Deep River
    3:43

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