A Child of Our Time

Album by Sir Michael Tippett & London Symphony Orchestra & Richard Hickox

A Child of Our Time is an oratorio by English composer Michael Tippett, premiered in 1944. The work combines mid-20th-century tonal and contrapuntal techniques with the incorporation of African-American spirituals as chorales, and it was Tippett's first large-scale choral-orchestral composition that helped define his place in post-war British music.
First released: October 1992

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 1. The World Turns on Its Dark Side
    4:59
  2. 2.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 2. Man Has Measured the Heavens
    3:03
  3. 3.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 3. Is Evil Then Good?
    3:06
  4. 4.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 4. Now in Each Nation
    1:10
  5. 5.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 5. When Shall the Userers' City
    2:10
  6. 6.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 6. I Have No Money for My Bread
    3:25
  7. 7.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 7. How Can I Cherish My Man in Such Days
    3:33
  8. 8.
    A Child of Our Time: Part I: 8. Steal Away
    2:29
  9. 9.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 9. A Star Rises in Mid-Winter
    3:43
  10. 10.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 10. And a Time Came
    0:16
  11. 11.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 11. Away With Them!
    0:56
  12. 12.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 12. Where They Could, They Fled
    0:22
  13. 13.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 13. We Cannot Have Them in Our Empire
    0:48
  14. 14.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 14. And the Boys Mother Wrote a Letter
    0:13
  15. 15.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 15. O My Son!
    1:28
  16. 16.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 16. Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord
    1:17
  17. 17.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 17. The Boy Becomes Desperate in His Agony
    1:31
  18. 18.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 18. They Took a Terrible Vengeance
    0:32
  19. 19.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 19. Burn Down Their Houses!
    1:01
  20. 20.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 20. Men Were Ashamed of What Was Done
    0:36
  21. 21.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 21. Go Down, Moses
    3:28
  22. 22.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 22. My Dreams Are All Shattered
    3:42
  23. 23.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 23. What Have I Done to You, My Son?
    1:38
  24. 24.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 24. The Dark Forces Rise Like a Flood
    1:03
  25. 25.
    A Child of Our Time: Part II: 25. O, by and By
    1:20
  26. 26.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 26. The Cold Deepens
    5:38
  27. 27.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 27. The Soul of a Man
    2:18
  28. 28.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 28. The Word of Wisdom Are These
    6:50
  29. 29.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 29. I Would Know My Shadow My Shadow and My Light
    6:16
  30. 30.
    A Child of Our Time: Part III: 30. Deep River
    3:57

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