Tippett: A Child of our Time

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis, Pumeza Matshikiza, Dame Sarah Connolly, Joshua Stewart & Ashley Riches

32 SONGS • 1 STUNDE UND 3 MINUTEN • MAY 03 2024

1

A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

03:38

2

A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The Argument. Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)

Sarah Connolly, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

02:04

3

A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: Interludium

BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

00:55

4

A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: Is evil then good? (Alto, Chorus)

Sarah Connolly, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

02:57

5

A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The Narrator. Now in each nation there were some cast out... (Bass)

Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

01:05

6

A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: Chorus of the Oppressed. When shall the usurer's city cease? (Chorus)

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

02:27

7

A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: I have no money for my bread (Tenor)

Joshua Stewart, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

03:33

8

A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: How can I cherish my man in such days...? (Soprano)

Pumeza Matshikiza, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

03:15

9

A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: A Spiritual. Steal away (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)

Pumeza Matshikiza, Joshua Stewart, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

02:32

10

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus)

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

02:43

11

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. And a time came... (Bass)

Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

00:19

12

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted. Away with them! (Chorus)

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

01:03

13

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)

Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

00:25

14

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: Chorus of the Self-righteous. We cannot have them in our Empire (Chorus)

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

00:48

15

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. And the boy's mother wrote a letter... (Bass)

Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

00:15

16

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Mother, the Uncle and Aunt, and the Boy. O my son! (Soloists)

Pumeza Matshikiza, Sarah Connolly, Joshua Stewart, Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

01:12

17

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A Spiritual. Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)

Pumeza Matshikiza, Joshua Stewart, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

01:23

18

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Alto, Bass)

Sarah Connolly, Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

01:18

19

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)

Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

00:23

20

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Terror. Burn down their houses! (Chorus)

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

01:11

21

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)

Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

00:34

22

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A Spiritual of Anger. Go down, Moses (Bass, Chorus)

Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

02:31

23

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Boy sings in his Prison. My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly reality (Tenor)

Joshua Stewart, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

03:03

24

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Mother. What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)

Pumeza Matshikiza, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

01:40

25

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)

Sarah Connolly, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

00:40

26

A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A Spiritual. O! by and by (Soprano, Chorus)

Pumeza Matshikiza, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

01:33

27

A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: The cold deepens (Chorus)

BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

03:39

28

A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: The soul of man is impassioned… (Alto)

Sarah Connolly, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

02:25

29

A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)

Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

05:00

30

A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: Preludium

BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

01:06

31

A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: I would know my shadow and my light (Soloists, Chorus)

Pumeza Matshikiza, Sarah Connolly, Joshua Stewart, Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

04:57

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A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: A Spiritual. Deep river (Soloists, Chorus)

Pumeza Matshikiza, Sarah Connolly, Joshua Stewart, Ashley Riches, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

03:14

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