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Tippett - A Child of Our Time

~ John Cheek (Bass), Michael Tippett (Composer), Michael Tippett (Conductor), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Faye Robinson (Soprano), et al.
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  • Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Michael Tippett
  • Composer: Michael Tippett
  • Audio CD (31 Jan 2005)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B0007ACVJG
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19,827 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. A Child of our Time: Part 1: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus) 4:02£0.69
Listen  2. A Child of our Time: Part 1: The Argument - Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto) 2:14£0.69
Listen  3. A Child of our Time: Part 1: Interludium - Scena - Is evil then good? (Chorus and Alto) 4:12£0.69
Listen  4. A Child of our Time: Part 1: The Narrator - Now in each nation there were some cast out (Bass) 1:18£0.69
Listen  5. A Child of our Time: Part 1: Chorus of the Oppressed - When shall the usurers' city cease 2:21£0.69
Listen  6. A Child of our Time: Part 1: I have no money for my bread (Tenor) 3:25£0.69
Listen  7. A Child of our Time: Part 1: How can I cherish my man in such days (Soprano) 3:33£0.69
Listen  8. A Child of our Time: Part 1: A Spiritual - Steal away (Chorus and Soli) 2:47£0.69
Listen  9. A Child of our Time: Part 2: A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus) 3:11£0.69
Listen10. A Child of our Time: Part 2: The Narrator - And a time came (Bass)0:18£0.69
Listen11. A Child of our Time: Part 2: Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted - Away with them! (Double Chorus)0:59£0.69
Listen12. A Child of our Time: Part 2: The Narrator - Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)0:28£0.69
Listen13. A Child of our Time: Part 2: Chorus of the Self-righteous - We cannot have them in our Empire0:48£0.69
Listen14. A Child of our Time: Part 2: The Narrator - And the boy's mother wrote a letter (Bass)0:16£0.69
Listen15. A Child of our Time: Part 2: Scena - O my son! (Soloists) 1:23£0.69
Listen16. A Child of our Time: Part 2: A Spiritual - Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Chorus and Soli) 1:37£0.69
Listen17. A Child of our Time: Part 2: Scena - The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Bass, Alto) 1:28£0.69
Listen18. A Child of our Time: Part 2: The Narrator - They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)0:28£0.69
Listen19. A Child of our Time: Part 2: The Terror - Burn down their houses! (Chorus) 1:06£0.69
Listen20. A Child of our Time: Part 2: The Narrator - Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)0:39£0.69
Listen21. A Child of our Time: Part 2: A Spiritual of Anger - Go down, Moses (Chorus and Bass) 3:11£0.69
Listen22. A Child of our Time: Part 2: The boy sings in his prison - My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor) 3:41£0.69
Listen23. A Child of our Time: Part 2: The Mother - What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano) 1:35£0.69
Listen24. A Child of our Time: Part 2: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)0:52£0.69
Listen25. A Child of our Time: Part 2: A Spiritual - O, by and by (Chorus and Soprano) 1:39£0.69
Listen26. A Child of our Time: Part 3: The cold deepens (Chorus) 4:08£0.69
Listen27. A Child of our Time: Part 3: The soul of man is impassioned like a woman (Alto) 2:28£0.69
Listen28. A Child of our Time: Part 3: Scena - The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus) 4:54£0.69
Listen29. A Child of our Time: Part 3: Preludium - I would know my shadow and my light (Chorus and Soli) 6:32£0.69
Listen30. A Child of our Time: Part 3: A Spiritual - Deep river, my home is over Jordan (Chorus and Soli) 3:31£0.69


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5.0 out of 5 stars Tippett's Autumnal Performance of His Powerful Early Work, 20 Mar 2005
By J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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The late Sir Michael Tippett was a lifelong pacifist who served a brief sentence during World War II as a conscientious objector. He wrote 'A Child of Our Time' early in WW II and he wrote the text for it himself after T. S. Eliot, whom he had asked to supply the libretto, told him that Tippett's own outline was sufficient to the task. The narrative of the cantata is about a Polish boy living with relatives in France after his parents had been killed by the Nazis who himself then shot and killed a German official in 1938. He was imprisoned by the French government but that apparently wasn't punishment enough; in reprisal for the act the Nazis carried out the horrific 'Kristallnacht.' Tippett's text is not a simple condemnation of the Nazis, but rather it explores the complex psychological issues on both sides of the question of whether the boy's act was justified. Clearly, though, his sympathies are with the boy and the others who were persecuted by the Nazis. Indeed, one aspect of this great cantata is the use of spirituals to convey the feelings of the persecuted Jews.

There have been a number of fine recordings of this work, foremost of which is that of Colin Davis. (I've never heard the earliest recording, with John Pritchard conducting and the singing of the great Elsie Morison and Richard Lewis.) The composer, though, obviously had something personal to say in his performance of the work. This recording, made in 1991 when Tippett was 86 and previously released on Collins Classics, has an autumnal quality that may partly arise from Tippett's age, but which also emerges from the musical and textual materials themselves. Tempi are rather slow and one familiar with the brilliant Davis recording might, initially, become a bit impatient. But the payoff is that the piece builds and builds to the shattering end, the chorus singing 'Deep River.' Tippett, it turns out, knew what he was doing here. This is not simply an old man's performance but one of great power by the man who created the work fifty years earlier. It is to Naxos's credit that they licensed this performance from Collins, now defunct as a record label, and make it available at superbudget price.

The City of Birmingham Symphony and Chorus perform admirably and the solos, sung by Faye Robinson, Sarah Walker, John Garrison, and John Cheek are all one could ask. This is a wonderful recording well worth its modest asking price.

TT=69:19

Scott Morrison

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