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• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Chorus: The world turns on its dark side. Sostenuto
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Argument. Alto Solo: Man has measured the heavens with a
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Interludium. Meno mosso tranquillo - Poc a poco animando -
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Scena. Chorus and Alto Solo: Is evil then good?. Allegro -
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Narrator. Bass Solo: Now in each nation there were some
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Chorus of the Oppressed: When shall the usurers city
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Tenor Solo: Allegro agitato -
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Soprano Solo: How can I cherish my man in such days...?.
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - A Spiritual. Chorus and Soprano and Tenor Soli: Steal away.
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Chorus: A star rises in mid-winter. Largo -
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Narrator. Bass Solo: And a time came.... Tempo comodo
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted: Away with
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Narrator: Bass Solo: Where they could they fled from
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Chorus of the Self-righteous: We cannot have them in
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Narrator. Bass Solo: And the boys mother wrote
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Scena. The Mother the Uncle and Aunt and the Boy.
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - A Spiritual. Chorus and Soprano and Tenor Soli: Nobody knows
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Scena. Duet Bass and Alto: The boy becomes desperate
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Narrator. Bass Solo: They took a terrible vengeance.
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Terror. Chorus: Burn down their houses!. Allegro
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Narrator. Bass Solo: Men were ashamed of what was
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - A Spiritual of Anger. Chorus and Bass Solo: Go down Moses.
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Boy sings in his Prison. Tenor Solo: Adagio -
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - The Mother. Soprano Solo: What have I done to you my son?.
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Alto Solo: The dark forces rise like a flood. Grave -
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - A Spiritual. Chorus and Soprano Solo: O! by and by.
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Chorus: The cold deepens. Largo poco lento
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Alto Solo: The soul of man is impassioned.... Allegro
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Scena. Bass Solo and Chorus: The words of wisdom are these.
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - Preludium. Andantino -
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - General Ensemble. Chorus and Soli: I would know my
• Tippett - A Child of Our Time - A Spiritual. Chorus and Soli: Deep river. Pochissimo piu moderato

Tippett:
A Child of Our Time
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Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time was composed between 1939 and 1942 as a direct response to the events leading up to (and including) the notorious Kristallnacht, in November 1938, in National Socialist Germany. Tippet first intended to write an opera, but quickly determined that this would inevitably be too literal, and that the (rather neglected) oratorio form lent greater scope for reflective and meditative interjections to the narrative. Hoping to persuade his friend and mentor T.S. Elliot to write the libretto, he sent the poet such an intricately detailed plan that Elliot responded by suggesting that Tippett, having thought so carefully about it, prepare the text himself – which he duly did. (He then went on to write his own libretti for all his future large vocal works). Set for choir, orchestra, and four soloists, the work adopts a structure that owes a debt to Handel’s Messiah, which Tippett had studied intensively in the 1930s. In addition, Tippett wanted to incorporate choral interludes much as Bach had done in his passions. Rejecting Lutheran chorals and Jewish hymns, he finally settled on African-American spirituals of which he placed five within the work. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with an exceptional quartet of soloists. The album was recorded in Surround Sound in Croydon’s Fairfield Halls following live performances in London’s Royal Festival Hall, and is available as a Hybrid SACD and in Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio.