Edition Staatskapelle Dresden - Volume 25

Michael Tippett: A Child of our Time

Part I: The world turns on its dark side (Chorus)

Part I: The Argument: Man has measured the heavens (Alto)

Part I: Interludium attacca

Part I: Scene: Is evil then good? (Chorus, Alto)

Part I: Now in each nation (Bass)

Part I: Chorus of the Oppressed: When shall the userers' city cease (Chorus)

Part I: I have no money for my bread (Tenor)

Part I: How can I cherish my man in such days (Soprano)

Part I: A Spiritual: Steal away (Chorus, Soprano, Tenor)

Part II: A star rises in mid-winter (Chorus)

Part II: And a time came (Bass)

Part II: Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted: Away with them! (Double Chorus)

Part II: Where they could, they fled (Bass)

Part II: Chorus of the Self-righteous: We cannot have them in our Empire (Chorus)

Part II: And the boy's mother wrote a letter (Bass)

Part II: Scene: O my son! (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

Part II: A Spiritual: Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (Chorus, Soprano, Tenor)

Part II: Scene: The boy becomes desperate in his agony (Bass, Alto)

Part II: They took a terrible vengeance (Bass)

Part II: The Terror: Burn down their houses! (Chorus)

Part II: Men were ashamed of what was done (Bass)

Part II: A Spiritual of Anger: Go down, Moses (Chorus, Bass)

Part II: The boy sings in his prison: My dreams are all shattered (Tenor)

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

Part II: The dark forces rise like a flood (Alto)

Part II: A Spiritual: O, by and by (Chorus, Soprano)

Part III: The cold deepens (Chorus)

Part III: The soul of man (Alto)

Part III: Scene: The words of wisdom are these (Bass, Chorus)

Part III: Praludium attacca

Part III: General Ensemble: I would know my shadow and my light (Chorus, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

Part III: A Spiritual: Deep river (Chorus, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)