A Child of Our Time

A Child of Our Time

Sir Michael Tippett; Jill Gomez, Helen Watts, Kenneth Woollam, John Shirley‐Quirk, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Геннадий Николаевич Рождественский

Album
Label BBC Radio Classics Release date Format CD Country 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Tracklist 61:59

1 A Child of Our Time: Part I: 1. Chorus: The World Turns on Its Dark Side Tippett 3:54
2 A Child of Our Time: Part I: 2. The Argument: Man Has Measured the Heavens. Interludium Tippett 3:02
3 A Child of Our Time: Part I: 3. Scena: Is Evil Then Good? Tippett 2:49
4 A Child of Our Time: Part I: 4. The Narrator: Now in Each Nation Tippett 1:05
5 A Child of Our Time: Part I: 5. Chorus of the Oppressed: When Shall the Userers' City Cease Tippett 2:39
6 A Child of Our Time: Part I: 6. Tenor Solo: I Have No Money for My Bread Tippett 3:01
7 A Child of Our Time: Part I: 7. Soprano Solo: How Can I Cherish My Man in Such Days Tippett 3:17
8 A Child of Our Time: Part I: 8. A Spiritual: Steal Away Tippett 2:37
9 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 9. Chorus: A Star Rises in Mid-Winter Tippett 2:40
10 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 10. The Narrator: And a Time Came Tippett 0:20
11 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 11. Chorus of the Persecutors and the Persecuted: Away With Them! Tippett 0:59
12 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 12. The Narrator: Where They Could, They Fled Tippett 0:24
13 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 13. Chorus of the Self-Righteous: We Cannot Have Them in Our Empire Tippett 0:46
14 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 14. The Narrator: And the Boys Mother Wrote a Letter Tippett 0:10
15 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 15. Scena: O My Son! Tippett 1:14
16 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 16. A Spiritual: Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord Tippett 1:21
17 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 17. Scena: The Boy Becomes Desperate in His Agony Tippett 1:15
18 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 18. The Narrator: They Took a Terrible Vengeance Tippett 0:24
19 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 19. The Terror: Burn Down Their Houses! Tippett 1:10
20 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 20. The Narrator: Men Were Ashamed of What Was Done Tippett 0:31
21 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 21. A Spiritual of Anger: Go Down, Moses Tippett 2:36
22 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 22. The Boy Sings in His Prison: My Dreams Are All Shattered Tippett 2:56
23 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 23. The Mother: What Have I Done to You, My Son? Tippett 1:56
24 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 24. Alto Solo: The Dark Forces Rise Like a Flood Tippett 0:45
25 A Child of Our Time: Part II: 25. A Spiritual: O, by and By Tippett 1:27
26 A Child of Our Time: Part III: 26. Chorus: The Cold Deepens Tippett 3:39
27 A Child of Our Time: Part III: 27. Alto Solo: The Soul of a Man Tippett 2:23
28 A Child of Our Time: Part III: 28. Scena: The Word of Wisdom Are These Tippett 4:02
29 A Child of Our Time: Part III: 29. Preludium Tippett 0:56
30 A Child of Our Time: Part III: 30. General Ensemble: I Would Know My Shadow My Shadow and My Light Tippett 3:45
31 A Child of Our Time: Part III: 31. A Spiritual: Deep River Tippett 3:43