Edward Gardner, now in his fifth season as Principal Conductor, continues to shape the LPO's distinctive sound with authority and brilliance. Gardner's long-standing relationship with Tippett's music is captured once again in this powerful live performance of A Child of Our Time. Recorded live in concert at London's Royal Festival Hall, this powerful performance - with the voices of the London Adventist Chorale especially deepening the soul-stirring impact of the Spirituals - highlights Gardner's long-standing affinity with Tippett's music, bringing conviction and emotional depth to this searing work of oppression, compassion and hope.
1 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - the World Turns on It's Dark Side
2 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - the Argument: Man Has Measured the Heavens with a Telescope
3 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - Interludium
4 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - Scena: Is Evil Then Good?
5 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - the Narrator: Now in Each Nation There Were Some Cast Out
6 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - Chorus of the Oppressed: When Shall the Usurers' City Cease
7 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - I Have No Money for My Bread
8 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - How Can I Cherish My Man in Such Days
9 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - a Spiritual: Steal Away
10 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - a Star Rises in Mid-Winter
11 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Narrator: And a Time Came
12 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - Double Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted: Away with Them!
13 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Narrator: Where They Could, They Fled from the Terror
14 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - Choruse of the Self-Righteous: We Cannot Have Them in Our Empire
15 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Narrator: And the Boy's Mother Wrote a Letter
16 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - Scena: O My Son!
17 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - a Spiritual: Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord
18 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Boy Comes Desparate in His Agony
19 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Narrator: They Took a Terrible Vengeance
20 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Terror: Burn Down Their Houses!
21 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Narrator: Men Were Ashamed of What Was Done
22 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - a Spiritual of Anger: Go Down, Moses
23 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Boy Sings in His Prison: My Dreams Are All Shattered in a Ghastly Reality
24 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Mother: What Have I Done to You, My Son?
25 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - the Dark Forces Rise Like a Flood
26 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 2 - a Spiritual: O, By and By
27 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 3 - the Cold Deepens
28 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 3 - the Soul of a Man Is Impassioned Like a Woman
29 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 3 - Scena: The Words of Wisdom Are These
30 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 3 - Preludium
31 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 3 - General Ensemble: I Would Know My Shadow and My Light
32 Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 3 - a Spiritual: Deep River, My Home Is Over Jordan
Edward Gardner, now in his fifth season as Principal Conductor, continues to shape the LPO's distinctive sound with authority and brilliance. Gardner's long-standing relationship with Tippett's music is captured once again in this powerful live performance of A Child of Our Time. Recorded live in concert at London's Royal Festival Hall, this powerful performance - with the voices of the London Adventist Chorale especially deepening the soul-stirring impact of the Spirituals - highlights Gardner's long-standing affinity with Tippett's music, bringing conviction and emotional depth to this searing work of oppression, compassion and hope.
