Tippett, M.: Child of Our Time (A) - CD

Sir Michael Tippett

A Child of our Time (1941)

 

1. Part 1: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)

00:04:05

 

2. Part 1: The Argument - Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)

00:02:14

 

3. Part 1: Interludium - Scena - Is evil then good? (Chorus and Alto)

00:04:13

 

4. Part 1: The Narrator - Now in each nation there were some cast out (Bass)

00:01:18

 

5. Part 1: Chorus of the Oppressed - When shall the usurers' city cease

00:02:21

 

6. Part 1: I have no money for my bread (Tenor)

00:03:25

 

7. Part 1: How can I cherish my man in such days (Soprano)

00:03:33

 

8. Part 1: A Spiritual - Steal away (Chorus and Soli)

00:02:32

 

9. Part 2: A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus)

00:03:27

 

10. Part 2: The Narrator - And a time came (Bass)

00:00:19

 

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

00:01:00

 

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

00:00:29

 

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

00:00:48

 

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

00:00:16

 

15. Part 2: Scena - O my son! (Soloists)

00:01:23

 

16. Part 2: A Spiritual - Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Chorus and Soli)

00:01:36

 

17. Part 2: Scena - The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Bass, Alto)

00:01:30

 

18. Part 2: The Narrator - They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)

00:00:29

 

19. Part 2: The Terror - Burn down their houses! (Chorus)

00:01:06

 

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

00:00:39

 

21. Part 2: A Spiritual of Anger - Go down, Moses (Chorus and Bass)

00:03:08

 

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

00:03:45

 

23. Part 2: The Mother - What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)

00:01:36

 

24. Part 2: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)

00:00:52

 

25. Part 2: A Spiritual - O, by and by (Chorus and Soprano)

00:01:28

 

26. Part 3: The cold deepens (Chorus)

00:04:20

 

27. Part 3: The soul of man is impassioned like a woman (Alto)

00:02:28

 

28. Part 3: Scena - The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)

00:04:55

 

29. Part 3: Preludium - I would know my shadow and my light (Chorus and Soli)

00:06:32

 

30. Part 3: A Spiritual - Deep river, my home is over Jordan (Chorus and Soli)

00:03:31