Sir
Michael Tippett (1905-1998)
A Child of Our Time (un enfant de notre temps)
Oratorio pour solistes, choeur & orchestre sur un texte du compositeur (1939/41)
Naxos 8.557570
Faye Robinson, soprano
Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano
Jon Garrison, ténor
John Cheek, basse
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Choeur
Sir Michael Tippett
Part 1
- The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)
04:02
- The Argument - Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)
02:14
- Interludium - Scena - Is evil then good? (Chorus and Alto)
04:12
- The Narrator - Now in each nation there were some cast out (Bass)
01:18
- Chorus of the Oppressed - When shall the usurers city cease
02:21
- I have no money for my bread (Tenor)
03:25
- How can I cherish my man in such days (Soprano)
03:33
- A Spiritual - Steal away (Chorus and Soli)
02:47
Part 2
- A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus)
03:11
- The Narrator - And a time came (Bass)
00:18
- Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted - Away with them! (Double Chorus)
00:59
- The Narrator - Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)
00:28
- Chorus of the Self-righteous - We cannot have them in our Empire
00:48
- The Narrator - And the boy s mother wrote a letter (Bass)
00:16
- Scena - O my son! (Soloists)
01:23
- A Spiritual - Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Chorus and Soli)
01:37
- Scena - The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Bass, Alto)
01:28
- The Narrator - They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)
00:28
- The Terror - Burn down their houses! (Chorus)
01:06
- The Narrator - Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)
00:39
- A Spiritual of Anger - Go down, Moses (Chorus and Bass)
03:11
- The boy sings in his prison - My dreams are all shattered in a ghastly
reality (Tenor)
03:41
- The Mother - What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)
01:35
- The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)
00:51
- A Spiritual - O, by and by (Chorus and Soprano)
01:38
Part 3
- The cold deepens (Chorus)
04:08
- The soul of man is impassioned like a woman (Alto)
02:27
- Scena - The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)
04:54
- Preludium - I would know my shadow and my light (Chorus and Soli)
06:32
- A Spiritual - Deep river, my home is over Jordan (Chorus and Soli)
03:31