A Child of Our Time

Album by Sir Michael Tippett & London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

A Child of Our Time is an oratorio by English composer Michael Tippett, first performed in 1944. The work combines large-scale choral and orchestral writing with the incorporation of African-American spirituals into its structure, employing recurring motifs and tonal centres that contrasted with contemporary modernist trends and marked Tippett's first major choral-orchestral statement during the Second World War.

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  1. 1.
    A Child of Our Time: Nos 1-2. The World Turns On Its Dark Side: Interludium
    8:12
  2. 2.
    A Child of Our Time: Nos 3-5. Scene: Is Evil Then Good?: Chorus of the Oppressed, When Shall the Userers' City Cease
    6:03
  3. 3.
    A Child of Our Time: Nos 6-7. I Have No Money for My Bread - How Can I Cherish My Man In Such Days
    6:19
  4. 4.
    A Child of Our Time: No 8. A Spiritual, Steal Away
    2:08
  5. 5.
    A Child of Our Time: Nos 9-15. A Star Rises in Mid-Winter - Scene, O My Son!
    6:36
  6. 6.
    A Child of Our Time: No 16. A Spiritual, Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord
    1:15
  7. 7.
    A Child of Our Time: Nos 17-20. Scene, the Boy Becomes Desperate In His Agony - Men Were Ashamed of What Was Done
    3:15
  8. 8.
    A Child of Our Time: No 21. A Spiritual of Anger, Go Down Moses
    2:52
  9. 9.
    A Child of Our Time: Nos 22-24. The Boy Sings In His Prison, My Dreams Are All Shattered - the Dark Forces Rise
    5:41
  10. 10.
    A Child of Our Time: No 25. A Spiritual, O, By and By
    1:13
  11. 11.
    A Child of Our Time: Nos 26-27. The Cold Deepens, the Soul of Man
    6:27
  12. 12.
    A Child of Our Time: No 28. Scene, the Words of Wisdom Are These - Praeludium
    5:26
  13. 13.
    A Child of Our Time: No 29. General Ensemble, I Would Know My Shadow and My Light
    4:39
  14. 14.
    A Child of Our Time: No 30. A Spiritual, Deep River
    3:42

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