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TIPPETT, M.: Child of Our Time (A) (F. Robinson, S. Walker, J. Garrison, J. Cheek, City of Birmingham Symphony, Tippett) |
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Tippett, Michael

A Child of Our Time
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Part 1: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)
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Part 1: The Argument - Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)
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Part 1: Interludium - Scena - Is evil then good (Chorus and Alto)
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Part 1: The Narrator - Now in each nation there were some cast out (Bass)
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Part 1: Chorus of the Oppressed - When shall the usurers' city cease
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Part 1: I have no money for my bread (Tenor)
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Part 1: How can I cherish my man in such days (Soprano)
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Part 1: A Spiritual - Steal away (Chorus and Soli)
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Part 2: A star rises in mid - winter (Chorus)
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Part 2: The Narrator - And a time came (Bass)
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Part 2: Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted - Away with them! (Double Chorus)
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Part 2: The Narrator - Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)
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Part 2: Chorus of the Self - righteous - We cannot have them in our Empire
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Part 2: The Narrator - And the boy's mother wrote a letter (Bass)
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Part 2: Scena - O my son! (Soloists)
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Part 2: A Spiritual - Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Chorus and Soli)
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Part 2: Scena - The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Bass, Alto)
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Part 2: The Narrator - They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)
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Part 2: The Terror - Burn down their houses! (Chorus)
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Part 2: The Narrator - Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)
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Part 2: A Spiritual of Anger - Go down, Moses (Chorus and Bass)
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Part 2: The boy sings in his prison - My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor)
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Part 2: The Mother - What have I done to you, my son (Soprano)
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Part 2: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)
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Part 2: A Spiritual - O, by and by (Chorus and Soprano)
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Part 3: The cold deepens (Chorus)
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Part 3: The soul of man is impassioned like a woman (Alto)
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Part 3: Scena - The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)
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Part 3: Preludium - I would know my shadow and my light (Chorus and Soli)
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Part 3: A Spiritual - Deep river, my home is over Jordan (Chorus and Soli)
00:03:31
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Total Playing Time: 01:09:18 |
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