A Child of Our Time
composer: Sir Michael Tippett
oratorio for soloists (SATB), chorus and orchestra
text by the composer
Premiere: 19 March 1944 · London, Adelphi Theatre · London Region Civil Defence Choir · Morley College Choir · London Philharmonic Orchestra · Joan Cross, soprano · Margaret McArthur, alto · Peter Pears, tenor · Roderick Lloyd, bass · Walter Goehr, conductor
Orchestra instrumentation: 2.2.ca.2.1.cbsn-4.3.3.0-timp.perc(cym)-str
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 66' 0''
Year of composition: 1939 - 1941
Edition: performance material
Language: English
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Content
I "The world turns on its dark side"
II "Man has measured the heavens'"
III "Is evil then good?"
IV "Now in each nation"
V "When shall the usurer's city cease?"
VI "I have no money for my bread"
VII "How can I cherish my man in such days?"
VIII "Steal away"
IX "A star rises in midwinter"
X "And a time came"
XI "Away with them!"
XII "Where they could, they fled from the terror"
XIII "We cannot have them in our Empire"
XIV "And the boy's mother wrote a letter saying"
XV "O my son!
XVI "Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord"
XVII The boy becomes desperate in his agony"
XVIII "They took a terrible vengeance"
XIX "Burn down their houses!"
XX "Men are ashamed of what was done"
XXI "Go down, Moses"
XXII "My dreams are all shattered"
XXIII "What have I done to you my son?"
XXIV "The dark forces rise like a flood" - XXV "Oh, by and by"
XXVI "The cold deepens" - XXVII "The soul of man is impassioned like a woman"
XXVIII "The words of wisdom are these"
XXIX "I would know my shadow and my light
XXX "Deep river"
Recordings
A Child of Our Time (2008)
Sir Michael Tippett
Ute Selbig (soprano) · Nora Gubisch (mezzo) · Jerry Hadley (tenor) · Robert Holl (bass) · Choir of the Saxonian State Opera Dresden · Mathias Brauer (chor rehearsals) · Staatskapelle Dresden · Sir Colin Davis (conductor)
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