A Child of Our Time
Album by Sir Michael Tippett & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & André Previn
A Child of Our Time is an oratorio by the English composer Michael Tippett, completed in 1941 and first performed in 1944. The work combines expressive choral writing and 20th-century harmonic and rhythmic language while incorporating African-American spirituals as refrains, and it represents Tippett's major early long-form statement addressing contemporary political and moral issues and helping to shape mid-20th-century British choral repertoire.
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- 1.A Child of Our Time: Part I: Chorus / THE ARGUMENT / Interludium: SCENA / The Narrator / Chorus of the Oppressed / Tenor Solo / Soprano Solo / A SPIRITUAL22:55
- 2.A Child of Our Time: Part II: Chorus / The Narrator / Chorus of the Persecutors and Persecuted / The Narrator / Chorus of the Self-righteous / The Narrator / SCENA / A SPIRITUAL / SCENA / The Narrator / THE TERROR / The Narrator / A SPIRITUAL OF ANGER / The Boy sings in his Prison / The Mother / Alto Solo / A SPIRITUAL21:56
- 3.A Child of Our Time: Part III: Chorus / Alto Solo / SCENA / Preludium: GENERAL ENSEMBLE / A SPIRITUAL22:25