Name: Tippett: A Child of Our Time
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Release Date: 31st Jul 2015
Catalogue No: CHAN10869X
Label: Chandos
Series: Classics, The Hickox Legacy
Length: 72 minutes

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Tippett: A Child of Our Time, Part I

Work length24:01

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Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra, Cynthia Clarey, Willard White, Damon Evans, Cynthia Haymon, London Symphony Chorus
Recorded: 6-8 July 1992
Recording Venue: Blackheath Concert Hall, London SE 3, UK

The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)

Track length5:02

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The Argument. Man has measured the heavens with a telescope (Alto)

Track length3:03

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Scene. Is evil then good? (Alto, Chorus)

Track length3:06

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Now in each nation there were some cast out (Bass)

Track length1:10

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Chorus of the Oppressed. When shall the userers' city cease…? (Chorus)

Track length2:10

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I have no money for my bread (Tenor)

Track length3:25

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How can I cherish my man in such days…? (Soprano)

Track length3:33

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A Spiritual. Steal away (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)

Track length2:32

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Tippett: A Child of Our Time, Part II

Work length23:54

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Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Cynthia Clarey, Damon Evans
Recorded: 6-8 July 1992
Recording Venue: Blackheath Concert Hall, London SE 3, UK

A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus)

Track length3:39

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And a time came… (Bass)

Track length0:16

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Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted. Away with them!

Track length0:56

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Where they could, they fled from the terror (Bass)

Track length0:21

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Chorus of the Self-righteous. We cannot have them in our Empire

Track length0:48

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And the boy's mother wrote a letter… (Bass)

Track length0:13

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Scene. O my son! (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

Track length1:28

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A Spiritual. Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord ( Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)

Track length1:16

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Scene. The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Bass, Alto)

Track length1:31

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They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)

Track length0:32

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The Terror. Burn down their houses! (Chorus)

Track length1:01

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Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)

Track length0:36

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A Spiritual of Anger. Go down, Moses (Bass, Chorus)

Track length3:28

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The boy sings in his prison. My dreams are all shattered (Tenor)

Track length3:43

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What have I done to you, my son? (Soprano)

Track length1:38

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The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)

Track length1:03

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A Spiritual. O, by and by (Soprano, Chorus)

Track length1:25

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Tippett: A Child of Our Time, Part III

Work length25:03

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Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra, Cynthia Haymon, London Symphony Chorus, Cynthia Clarey, Willard White, Damon Evans
Recorded: 6-8 July 1992
Recording Venue: Blackheath Concert Hall, London SE 3, UK

The cold deepens (Chorus)

Track length5:33

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The soul of man is impassioned (Alto)

Track length2:18

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Scene. The world of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)

Track length6:51

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General Ensemble. I would know my shadow and my light (Soloists, Chorus)

Track length6:15

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A Spiritual. Deep river (Soloists, Chorus)

Track length4:06

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Our re-release of the 1992 recording of Tippett’s A Child of Our Time is Disc of the Month in this new wave of additions to Chandos’ ongoing Hickox Legacy series.

Recreating in contemporary terms a traditional form in Western music, one that goes back to the Lutheran Passions of J.S. Bach and the great Old and New Testament oratories of Handel, and drawing on the familiar musico-dramatic conventions of the genre – recitative, aria, ensemble, chorus, chorale, and the continuous presence of the orchestra – Tippett both re-affirms and transforms the genre. The most striking and brilliant transformation is the composer’s choice of the Negro Spiritual in place of the congregational hymn.

This oratorio, composed between 1939 and 1941 and premiered in 1944, was born out of a very personal sense of human deprivation and hardship; during the hard times in England in the thirties Tippett had shared his choral craft with community workers, and during the war he inspired unemployed professional musicians and amateurs as a choral and orchestral conductor at Morley College.

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