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Sarah Connolly, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Davis

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

Tippett: A Child of our Time

2 MINUTES AND 4 SECONDS • MAY 03 2024

Album tracklist

1
A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)
03:38
2
A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The Argument. Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)
02:04
3
A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: Interludium
00:55
4
A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: Is evil then good? (Alto, Chorus)
02:57
5
A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The Narrator. Now in each nation there were some cast out... (Bass)
01:05
6
A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: Chorus of the Oppressed. When shall the usurer's city cease? (Chorus)
02:27
7
A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: I have no money for my bread (Tenor)
03:33
8
A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: How can I cherish my man in such days...? (Soprano)
03:15
9
A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: A Spiritual. Steal away (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
02:32
10
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus)
02:43
11
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. And a time came... (Bass)
00:19
12
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted. Away with them! (Chorus)
01:03
13
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)
00:25
14
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: Chorus of the Self-righteous. We cannot have them in our Empire (Chorus)
00:48
15
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. And the boy's mother wrote a letter... (Bass)
00:15
16
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Mother, the Uncle and Aunt, and the Boy. O my son! (Soloists)
01:12
17
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A Spiritual. Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
01:23
18
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Alto, Bass)
01:18
19
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)
00:23
20
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Terror. Burn down their houses! (Chorus)
01:11
21
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Narrator. Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)
00:34
22
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A Spiritual of Anger. Go down, Moses (Bass, Chorus)
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)
03:03
24
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The Mother. What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)
01:40
25
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)
00:40
26
A Child of our Time, Pt. 2: A Spiritual. O! by and by (Soprano, Chorus)
01:33
27
A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: The cold deepens (Chorus)
03:39
28
A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: The soul of man is impassioned… (Alto)
02:25
29
A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)
05:00
30
A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: Preludium
01:06
31
A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: I would know my shadow and my light (Soloists, Chorus)
04:57
32
A Child of our Time, Pt. 3: A Spiritual. Deep river (Soloists, Chorus)
03:14
33
Tippett: A Child of our Time
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Tippett: A Child of our Time
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A Child of our Time, Pt. 1: The Argument. Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)
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