Tippett, M.: Child of Our Time (A)

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A Child of our Time (more info)
Performed by: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle
Composed by: Michael Tippett
Conducted by: Bruce Pullan Richard Hickox Colin Davis Simon Halsey
Ute Selbig, soprano
Robert Holl, bass-baritone
Willard White, bass
Jerry Hadley, tenor
Damon Evans, tenor
Cynthia Clarey, alto
Nora Gubisch,
Cynthia Haymon, soprano
Faye Robinson, soprano
Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano
Jon Garrison, tenor
John Cheek, bass


1.   Part 1: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus) - 4:05
2.   Part 1: The Argument - Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto) - 2:14
3.   Part 1: Interludium - Scena - Is evil then good? (Chorus and Alto) - 4:13
4.   Part 1: The Narrator - Now in each nation there were some cast out (Bass) - 1:18
5.   Part 1: Chorus of the Oppressed - When shall the usurers' city cease - 2:21
6.   Part 1: I have no money for my bread (Tenor) - 3:25
7.   Part 1: How can I cherish my man in such days (Soprano) - 3:33
8.   Part 1: A Spiritual - Steal away (Chorus and Soli) - 2:32
9.   Part 2: A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus) - 3:27
10.   Part 2: The Narrator - And a time came (Bass) - 0:19
11.   Part 2: Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted - Away with them! (Double Chorus) - 1:00
12.   Part 2: The Narrator - Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass) - 0:29
13.   Part 2: Chorus of the Self-righteous - We cannot have them in our Empire - 0:48
14.   Part 2: The Narrator - And the boy's mother wrote a letter (Bass) - 0:16
15.   Part 2: Scena - O my son! (Soloists) - 1:23
16.   Part 2: A Spiritual - Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Chorus and Soli) - 1:36
17.   Part 2: Scena - The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Bass, Alto) - 1:30
18.   Part 2: The Narrator - They took a terrible vengeance (Bass) - 0:29
19.   Part 2: The Terror - Burn down their houses! (Chorus) - 1:06
20.   Part 2: The Narrator - Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass) - 0:39
21.   Part 2: A Spiritual of Anger - Go down, Moses (Chorus and Bass) - 3:08
22.   Part 2: The boy sings in his prison - My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor) - 3:45
23.   Part 2: The Mother - What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano) - 1:36
24.   Part 2: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto) - 0:52
25.   Part 2: A Spiritual - O, by and by (Chorus and Soprano) - 1:28
26.   Part 3: The cold deepens (Chorus) - 4:20
27.   Part 3: The soul of man is impassioned like a woman (Alto) - 2:28
28.   Part 3: Scena - The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus) - 4:55
29.   Part 3: Preludium - I would know my shadow and my light (Chorus and Soli) - 6:32
30.   Part 3: A Spiritual - Deep river, my home is over Jordan (Chorus and Soli) - 3:31

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