Tippett: A Child of our Time

Album by Michael Tippett.

Release date: 2024-05-03

Tracks (32)

  1. A Child of our Time, Part I: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)
  2. A Child of our Time, Part I: The Argument. Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)
  3. A Child of our Time, Part I: Interludium
  4. A Child of our Time, Part I: Is evil then good? (Alto, Chorus)
  5. A Child of our Time, Part I: The Narrator. Now in each nation there were some cast out... (Bass)
  6. A Child of our Time, Part I: Chorus of the Oppressed. When shall the usurer's city cease? (Chorus)
  7. A Child of our Time, Part I: I have no money for my bread (Tenor)
  8. A Child of our Time, Part I: How can I cherish my man in such days...? (Soprano)
  9. A Child of our Time, Part I: A Spiritual. Steal away (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
  10. A Child of our Time, Part II: A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus)
  11. A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. And a time came... (Bass)
  12. A Child of our Time, Part II: Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted. Away with them! (Chorus)
  13. A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)
  14. A Child of our Time, Part II: Chorus of the Self-righteous. We cannot have them in our Empire (Chorus)
  15. A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. And the boy's mother wrote a letter... (Bass)
  16. A Child of our Time, Part II: The Mother, The Uncle and Aunt, And the Boy. O my son! (Soloists)
  17. A Child of our Time, Part II: A Spiritual. Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
  18. A Child of our Time, Part II: The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Alto, Bass)
  19. A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)
  20. A Child of our Time, Part II: The Terror. Burn down their houses! (Chorus)
  21. A Child of our Time, Part II: The Narrator. Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)
  22. A Child of our Time, Part II: A Spiritual of Anger. Go down, Moses (Bass, Chorus)
  23. A Child of our Time, Part II: The Boy sings in his Prison. My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor)
  24. A Child of our Time, Part II: The Mother. What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)
  25. A Child of our Time, Part II: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)
  26. A Child of our Time, Part II: A Spiritual. O! by and by (Soprano, Chorus)
  27. A Child of our Time, Part III: The cold deepens (Chorus)
  28. A Child of our Time, Part III: The soul of man is impassioned… (Alto)
  29. A Child of our Time, Part III: The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)
  30. A Child of our Time, Part III: Preludium
  31. A Child of our Time, Part III: I would know my shadow and my light (Soloists, Chorus)
  32. A Child of our Time, Part III: A Spiritual. Deep river (Soloists, Chorus)

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