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

A Child of Our Time

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Part 1: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus) 00:04:05

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Part 1: The Argument - Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto) 00:02:14

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Part 1: Interludium - Scena - Is evil then good (Chorus and Alto) 00:04:13

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Part 1: The Narrator - Now in each nation there were some cast out (Bass) 00:01:18

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Part 1: Chorus of the Oppressed - When shall the usurers' city cease 00:02:21

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Part 1: I have no money for my bread (Tenor) 00:03:25

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Part 1: How can I cherish my man in such days (Soprano) 00:03:33

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Part 1: A Spiritual - Steal away (Chorus and Soli) 00:02:32

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Part 2: A star rises in mid - winter (Chorus) 00:03:27

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Part 2: The Narrator - And a time came (Bass) 00:00:19

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Part 2: Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted - Away with them! (Double Chorus) 00:01:00

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Part 2: The Narrator - Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass) 00:00:29

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Part 2: Chorus of the Self - righteous - We cannot have them in our Empire 00:00:48

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Part 2: The Narrator - And the boy's mother wrote a letter (Bass) 00:00:16

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Part 2: Scena - O my son! (Soloists) 00:01:23

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Part 2: A Spiritual - Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Chorus and Soli) 00:01:36

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Part 2: Scena - The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Bass, Alto) 00:01:30

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Part 2: The Narrator - They took a terrible vengeance (Bass) 00:00:29

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Part 2: The Terror - Burn down their houses! (Chorus) 00:01:06

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Part 2: The Narrator - Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass) 00:00:39

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Part 2: A Spiritual of Anger - Go down, Moses (Chorus and Bass) 00:03:08

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Part 2: The boy sings in his prison - My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor) 00:03:45

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Part 2: The Mother - What have I done to you, my son (Soprano) 00:01:36

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Part 2: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto) 00:00:52

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Part 2: A Spiritual - O, by and by (Chorus and Soprano) 00:01:28

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Part 3: The cold deepens (Chorus) 00:04:20

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Part 3: The soul of man is impassioned like a woman (Alto) 00:02:28

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Part 3: Scena - The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus) 00:04:55

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Part 3: Preludium - I would know my shadow and my light (Chorus and Soli) 00:06:32

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Part 3: A Spiritual - Deep river, my home is over Jordan (Chorus and Soli) 00:03:31

Total Playing Time: 01:09:18

Composer(s):
Tippett, Michael

Lyricist(s):
Tippett, Michael

Conductor(s):
Tippett, Michael

Orchestra(s):
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Choir(s):
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

Artist(s):
Cheek, John; Garrison, Jon; Halsey, Simon; Robinson, Faye; Walker, Sarah

Label: Naxos

Genre: Choral - Secular

Period: 20th Century

Catalogue No: 8.557570

Barcode: 0747313257027

Physical Release: 02/2005


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