The Mask of Time

Album by Sir Michael Tippett & Faye Robinson & Sarah Walker & Robert Tear & John Cheek & BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis

The Mask of Time is an oratorio by English composer Sir Michael Tippett, premiered in 1984. The work employs large-scale choral and orchestral forces with soloists, combining late-Romantic lyricism, modernist harmonic and rhythmic complexity and occasional references to earlier musical traditions, and it stands as one of Tippett's late major works that addresses philosophical themes of time and human existence.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Mask of Time: Part I: 1. Presence / 2. Creation of the World by Music
    7:55
  2. 2.
    The Mask of Time: Part I: 3. Jungle
    8:33
  3. 3.
    The Mask of Time: Part I: 4. The Ice-Cap Moves South-North
    10:53
  4. 4.
    The Mask of Time: Part I: 5. Dream of the Paradise Garden
    15:13

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Mask of Time: Part II: 6. The Triumph of Life
    12:13
  2. 3.
    The Mask of Time: Part II: 7. Mirror of Whitening Light / 8. Hiroshima, Mon Amour
    20:09
  3. 4.
    The Mask of Time: Part II: 9. Three Songs: I. The Severed Head
    6:06
  4. 5.
    The Mask of Time: Part II: 9. Three Songs: II. The Beleaguered Friends
    4:52
  5. 6.
    The Mask of Time: Part II: 9. Three Songs: III. The Young Actor Steps Out / 10. The Singing Will Never Be Done
    5:33

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