Tippett: A Child of Our Time

Edward Gardner, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dame Sarah Connolly, Nadine Benjamin, Kenneth Tarver, Roderick Williams, London Philharmonic Choir & London Adventist Chorale

2025-09-05 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  A Child of Our Time, Part I: The World Turns on Its Dark Dide
  3:57
• 2
  A Child of Our Time, Part I: The Argument. Man has Measured The Heavens With a Telescope
  1:57
• 3
  A Child of Our Time, Part I: Interludium
  1:02
• 4
  A Child of Our Time, Part I: Scena. Is Evil Then Good?
  2:59
• 5
  A Child of Our Time, Part I: The Narrator. Now In Each Nation There Were Some Cast Out
  1:16
• 6
  A Child of Our Time, Part I: Chorus of the Oppressed. When Shall The Usurers' City Cease
  2:21
• 7
  A Child of Our Time, Part I: I Have No Money For My Bread
  3:12
• 8
  A Child of Our Time, Part I: How Can I Cherish My Man in Such Days
  3:43
• 9
  A Child of Our Time, Part I: A Spiritual. Steal Away
  2:41
• 10
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: A Star Rises in Mid-Winter
  2:56
• 11
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Narrator. And a Time Came
  0:23
• 12
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted. Away with Them!
  0:59
• 13
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Narrator. Where They Could, They Fled from The Terror
  0:31
• 14
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: Chorus of the Self-Righteous. We Cannot Have Them in Our Empire
  0:46
• 15
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Narrator. And the Boy's Mother Wrote a Letter
  0:18
• 16
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: Scena. O My Son!
  1:16
• 17
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: A Spiritual. Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord
  1:14
• 18
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Boy Comes Desperate in His Agony
  1:23
• 19
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Narrator. They Took a Terrible Vengeance
  0:31
• 20
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Terror. Burn Down Their Houses!
  1:00
• 21
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Narrator. Men Were Ashamed of What Was Done
  0:41
• 22
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: A Spiritual of Anger. Go Down, Moses
  2:32
• 23
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Boy Sings in His Prison. My Dreams Are All Shattered in a Ghastly Reality
  2:54
• 24
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Mother. What Have I Done to You, My Son?
  1:25
• 25
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: The Dark Forces Rise like a Flood
  0:46
• 26
  A Child of Our Time, Part II: A Spiritual. O, by and By
  1:14
• 27
  A Child of Our Time, Part III: The Cold Deepens
  3:58
• 28
  A Child of Our Time, Part III: The Soul of a Man Is Impassioned like a Woman
  2:20
• 29
  A Child of Our Time, Part III: Scena. The Words of Wisdom Are These
  4:57
• 30
  A Child of Our Time, Part III: Preludium
  1:12
• 31
  A Child of Our Time, Part III: General Ensemble. I Would Know My Shadow and My Light
  5:20
• 32
  A Child of Our Time, Part III: A Spiritual. Deep River, My Home Is over Jordan
  3:45