Tippett: A Child of our Time

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, Pumeza Matshikiza, Dame Sarah Connolly, Joshua Stewart & Ashley Riches

2024-05-03 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)
  3:38
• 2
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The Argument. Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)
  2:04
• 3
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: Interludium
  0:55
• 4
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: Is evil then good? (Alto, Chorus)
  2:57
• 5
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The Narrator. Now in each nation there were some cast out. (Bass)
  1:05
• 6
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: Chorus of the Oppressed. When shall the usurer's city cease? (Chorus)
  2:27
• 7
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: I have no money for my bread (Tenor)
  3:33
• 8
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: How can I cherish my man in such days.? (Soprano)
  3:15
• 9
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: A Spiritual. Steal away (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
  2:32
• 10
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus)
  2:43
• 11
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. And a time came. (Bass)
  0:19
• 12
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted. Away with them! (Chorus)
  1:02
• 13
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)
  0:25
• 14
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: Chorus of the Self-righteous. We cannot have them in our Empire (Chorus)
  0:48
• 15
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. And the boy's mother wrote a letter. (Bass)
  0:15
• 16
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Mother, the Uncle and Aunt, and the Boy. O my son! (Soloists)
  1:12
• 17
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A Spiritual. Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
  1:23
• 18
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Alto, Bass)
  1:18
• 19
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)
  0:23
• 20
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Terror. Burn down their houses! (Chorus)
  1:11
• 21
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)
  0:34
• 22
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A Spiritual of Anger. Go down, Moses (Bass, Chorus)
  2:31
• 23
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Boy sings in his Prison. My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor)
  3:03
• 24
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Mother. What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)
  1:39
• 25
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)
  0:40
• 26
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A Spiritual. O! by and by (Soprano, Chorus)
  1:32
• 27
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: The cold deepens (Chorus)
  3:39
• 28
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: The soul of man is impassioned… (Alto)
  2:25
• 29
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)
  4:60
• 30
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: Preludium
  1:06
• 31
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: I would know my shadow and my light (Soloists, Chorus)
  4:57
• 32
  A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: A Spiritual. Deep river (Soloists, Chorus)
  3:14