Michael Tippet - A Child of our Time [1993 Chandos][FLAC]

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09-12-2015, 04:52 AM

Part I 24:00
1 1 Chorus: ‘The world turns on its dark side’ 5:00
2 2 The Argument. Alto: ‘Man has measured the heavens with a telescope’ – 3:04
Interludium
3 3 Scena. Chorus, Alto: ‘Is evil then good?’ 3:07
4 4 Bass (The Narrator): ‘Now in each nation there were some cast out�’ – 1:11
5 5 Chorus of the Oppressed: ‘When shall the userers’ city cease�?’ 2:11
6 6 Tenor: ‘I have no money for my bread’ 3:26
7 7 Soprano: ‘How can I cherish my man in such days�?’ – 3:34
8 8 A Spiritual. Chorus, Soprano, Tenor: ‘Steal away’ 2:29
Part II 24:00
9 9 Chorus: ‘A star rises in mid-winter’ – 3:40
10 10 Bass (The Narrator): ‘And a time came�’ 0:17
11 11 Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted: ‘Away with them!’ – 0:57
12 12 Bass (The Narrator): ‘Where they could, they fled from the terror’ – 0:22
13 13 Chorus of the Self-righteous: ‘We cannot have them in our Empire’ – 0:49
14 14 Bass (The Narrator): ‘And the boy’s mother wrote a letter�’ 0:14
15 15 Scena. Solo Quartet (Mother, Aunt, Boy, Uncle): ‘O my son!’ – 1:29
16 16 A Spiritual. Chorus, Soprano, Tenor: ‘Nobody 1:17
knows the trouble I see, Lord’
17 17 Scena. Bass (The Narrator), Alto: ‘The boy becomes 1:32
desperate in his agony’
18 18 Bass (The Narrator): ‘They took a terrible vengeance’ – 0:33
19 19 The Terror. Chorus: ‘Burn down their houses!’ – 1:02
20 20 Bass (The Narrator): ‘Men were ashamed of what was done’ – 0:37
21 21 A Spiritual of Anger. Chorus, Bass: ‘Go down, Moses’ 3:28
22 22 The boy sings in his prison. Tenor: ‘My dreams are 3:44
all shattered in ghastly reality’ –
23 23 Soprano (The Mother): ‘What have I done to you, my son?’ 1:39
24 24 Alto: ‘The dark forces rise like a flood’ – 1:04
25 25 A Spiritual. Chorus, Soprano: ‘O, by and by’ 1:22
Part III 25:03
26 26 Chorus: ‘The cold deepens’ 5:34
27 27 Alto: ‘The soul of man is impassioned�’ 2:19
28 28 Scena. Bass, Chorus: ‘The world of wisdom are these’ – 6:52
Preludium
29 29 General Ensemble. Chorus, Soloists: I would 6:16
know my shadow and my light’ –
30 30 A Spiritual. Chorus, Soloists: ‘Deep river’ 4:07