Michael Tippett: A Child Of Our Time

On this CD:

1. A Child of Our Time, oratorio
Composed by Michael Tippett
Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra with Jill Gomez, John Shirley-Quirk, Helen Watts, Kenneth Woolman
Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Michael Tippett: A Child Of Our Time, Music, Michael Tippett, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jill Gomez, Kenneth Woolman, John Shirley-Quirk, Choral, Classical, Oratorio

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A profound reading by the composer, lackig only the best soloists and sonics

The Next Best Thing To A Live Performance

Tippett's Autumnal Performance of His Powerful Early Work

Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Sarah Walker , John Cheek , Michael Tippett , City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , Faye Robinson , and Jon Garrison
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ASIN: B0007ACVJG
Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

The World Turns...
The Argument: Man Has Measured...
Interludium-Scena: Is Evil Then Good...
The Narrator: Now In Each Nation...
Chorus Of The Oppressed: When Shall...
Chorus Of The Oppressed: I Have No Money...
Chorus Of The Oppressed: How Can I Cherish...
A Spiritual: Steal Away...
A Spiritual: A Star Rises...
The Narrator: And A Time Came...
Chorus Of Persecutors And Persecuted: Away With Them...
The Narrator: When They Could...
Chorus Of The Self-Righteous: We Cannot Have Them...
The Narrator: And The Boy's Mother...
Scena: O My Son...
A Spiritual: Nobody Knows...
Scena: The Boy Becomes Desperate...
The Narrator: They Took A Terrible Vengeance...
The Terror: Burn Down Their Houses...
The Narrator: Men Were Ashamed...
A Spiritual Of Anger: Go Down Moses...
The Boy Sings In Prison: My Dreams...
The Mother: What Have I Done...
The Mother: The Dark Forces...
A Spiritual: O, By And By...
A Spiritual: The Cold Deepens...
A Spiritual: The Soul Of Man...
Scena: The Words Of Wisdom...
Preludium: I Would Know My Shadow...
A Spiritual: Deep River...

Customer Reviews:

A profound reading by the composer, lackig only the best soloists and sonics.......2006-03-10

All three of the standard recordings of Tippett's early masterpiece, A Child of Our Time, are excellent performances. The earliest, conducted by John Pritchard (1958), would have been considered superlative on its own, and it still is despite somewhat cramped, dated sound and soloists who are less than stellar, particularly in their diction. The Colin Davis from 1975 became an instant first choice given the unequalled casting of Jessye Norman and Janet Baker in the female parts. But this budget release of the composer's own 1991 performance is uniquely deep and moving. Tippett was an excellent conductor of his own music, and as with Britten, he brings a composer's understanding that no one else can duplicate.

It's not a perfect recording. The sonics are a too bright, and the chorus is placed so far back as to be unintelligible most of the time. The four soloists sing with great feeling, although the fast beat in the soprano's voice robs her diction. The tenor and bass are the best singers and the easiest to understand. As to timing, Pritchrd seems quick at 64 min. and the composer just right at 69 min.--he gives himself room to make any number of musical points in the service of his heartfelt pacifism and humanity. In sum, this is a great recording at a price anyone can afford.

The Next Best Thing To A Live Performance.......2005-11-05

My first exposure to A CHILD OF OUR TIME was a radio broadcast of the work in the 1970's. Our local classical station would air recorded concerts of some of the country's best known orchestras, and one night A CHILD OF OUR TIME was the featured work. I found it interesting, but I wasn't overly moved. I later heard a college choir and orchestra perform the work, and I found it somewhat tedious, but the acoustics in the hall were not the greatest, so the performance may have been top notch but no one knew it. Not one to give up easily on music of any kind, I decided to purchase this recording to be come familiar with the work before attending a performance of the work by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Colin Davis a few weeks ago. I am not sure if it is due to maturing of my musical tastes, more familiarity with the work, ort the excitement of the performance itself, but I have rarely been so moved at a musical performance as I was at the performance and I'm sure this recording played a part in my appreciation of this work.

I do believe this is one of those works that has to be heard live in order to be truly appreciated. This is something that can be true of many great classical works, but this work requires fine orchestral playing that does not over power the vocalists, four soloists who are equally at home singing traditional choral music and African American spirituals, and a chorus that is vocally versatile as well. It's difficult to find all three, but I found it at the BSO, and when I got home that evening and put this disc in the stereo, I found the next best thing to a live performance. Nothing about this disc is static and Sir Michael Tippet's musical treatise of good and evil comes alive. My favorite portions are the spirituals. The soloists are magnificent and we see this especially in these portions of the work. The City of Birmingham Orchestra and Chorus are exquisite, and we can be assured that this is an authentic rendering of the work since it is under the direction of the composer.

People who collect historic recordings will find a gem in this recording, but so too will people who want to hear a wonderful recording of a powerful work.

Tippett's Autumnal Performance of His Powerful Early Work.......2005-03-20

Michael Tippett was a lifelong pacifist who served a brief sentence during World War II as a conscientious objector. He wrote 'A Child of Our Time' early in WW II and he wrote the text for it himself after T. S. Eliot, whom he had asked to supply the libretto, told him that Tippett's own outline was sufficient to the task. The narrative of the cantata is about a Polish boy living with relatives in France after his parents had been killed by the Nazis who himself then shot and killed a German official in 1938. He was imprisoned by the French government but that apparently wasn't punishment enough; in reprisal for the act the Nazis carried out the horrific 'Kristallnacht.' Tippett's text is not a simple condemnation of the Nazis, but rather it explores the complex psychological issues on both sides of the question of whether the boy's act was justified. Clearly, though, his sympathies are with the boy and the others who were persecuted by the Nazis. Indeed, one aspect of this great cantata is the use of spirituals to convey the feelings of the persecuted Jews.

There have been a number of fine recordings of this work, foremost of which is that of Colin Davis. (I've never heard the earliest recording, with John Pritchard conducting and the singing of the great Elsie Morison and Richard Lewis.) The composer, though, obviously had something personal to say in his performance of the work. This recording, made in 1991 when Tippett was 86 and previously released on Collins Classics, has an autumnal quality that may partly arise from Tippett's age, but which also emerges from the musical and textual materials themselves. Tempi are rather slow and one familiar with the brilliant Davis recording might, initially, become a bit impatient. But the payoff is that the piece builds and builds to the shattering end, the chorus singing 'Deep River.' Tippett, it turns out, knew what he was doing here. This is not simply an old man's performance but one of great power by the man who created the work fifty years earlier. It is to Naxos's credit that they licensed this performance from Collins, now defunct as a record label, and make it available at superbudget price.

The City of Birmingham Symphony and Chorus perform admirably and the solos, sung by Faye Robinson, Sarah Walker, John Garrison, and John Cheek are all one could ask. This is a wonderful recording well worth its modest asking price.

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The classic recording of a choral masterpiece

Tippett: A Child of Our Time

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Release Date: 1990-10-25

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The classic recording of a choral masterpiece.......2006-10-29

Sooner or later this, the definitive studio recording of Tippett's fervent anti-Fascist oratorio, will be back in print. In the meantime there are copies on the used market, as well as in a box set on British Decca. The composer himself leads a passionate reading, now on Naxos, but with lesser vocal soloists. Davis's quartet is unbeatable, led by Janet Baker and Jessye Norman in prime voice. Not that John Shirley-quirk and Richard Cassily are any less dramatic and committed.

The BBC orchestra is excellent, and one only laments that the chorus sounds rather mushy and far away, with muddied diction of Tippett's libretto, which the composer himself wrote on the advice of T.S. Eliot. Otherwise, the recording is clear and full. Davis's conducting is balanced and dramatic, though it could be fiercer at times. A better recording hasn't emerged since this one appeared over two decades ago, so every lover of this moving work would do well to seek it out.

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Another winner from Lesley Garrett!.......1998-10-03

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Tippett's Oratorio Is Provocative
A Lyrical and Lush Modern Masterwork

Tippett: A Child of our Time

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A Child Of Our Time: Part I: 1. The World Turns On Its Dark Side
A Child Of Our Time: Part I: 2. Man Has Measured The Heavens
A Child Of Our Time: Part I: 3. Is Evil Then Good?
A Child Of Our Time: Part I: 4. Now In Each Nation
A Child Of Our Time: Part I: 5. When Shall The Userers' City Cease
A Child Of Our Time: Part I: 6. I Have No Money For My Bread
A Child Of Our Time: Part I: 7. How Can I Cherish My Man In Such Days
A Child Of Our Time: Part I: 8. Steal Away
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 9. A Star Rises In Mid-Winter
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 10. And A Time Came
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 11. Away With Them!
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 12. Where They Could, They Fled
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 13. We Cannot Have Them In Our Empire
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 14. And The Boys Mother Wrote A Letter
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 15. O My Son!
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 16. Nobody Knows The Trouble I See, Lord
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 17. The Boy Becomes Desperate In His Agony
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 18. They Took A Terrible Vengence
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 19. Burn Down Their Houses!
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 20. Men Were Ashamed Of What Was Done
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 21. Go Down, Moses
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 22. My Dreams Are All Shattered
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 23. What Have I Done To You, My Son?
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 24. The Dark Forces Rise Like A Flood
A Child Of Our Time: Part II: 25. O, By And By
A Child Of Our Time: Part III: 26. The Cold Deepens
A Child Of Our Time: Part III: 27. The Soul Of A Man
A Child Of Our Time: Part III: 28. The Word Of Wisdom Are These
A Child Of Our Time: Part III: 29. I Would Now My Shadow My Shadow And My Light
A Child Of Our Time: Part III: 30. Deep River

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This, one of Tippett's earliest acknowledged works, is one of his most popular. The music relates the true story of a young German Jew who, terrified and enraged at the treatment of his mother, kills a Nazi officer and touches off a violent pogrom. Tippett adopts the structure of Bach's Passions, in which arias alternate with choruses and Lutheran hymns (chorales), although in place of the chorales Tippett substitutes magnificently moving Negro spirituals. "A Child of our Time" offers music of rage, poignancy, and deep compassion. As the title itself implies, it is both specific to a certain time and place, and universal as well. No lover of classical music can afford to ignore it. --David Hurwitz

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Tippett's Oratorio Is Provocative.......2005-08-24

Though it premiered in March of 1944, "A Child of our Time" remains thought provoking in its social-philosophic message some sixty years later. The 1992 recording on Chandos, captures its spirit and intensity. Well, worth listening to. The work was performed this summer (2005) at the Berkshire Choral Festival.

A Lyrical and Lush Modern Masterwork.......2003-11-14

Michael Tippett's "A Child of Our Time" is truly one of the gems of 20th century composition. Baritone and soprano arias segue into choruses based on Negro spirituals as Tippett, a gay man, makes an encompassing comment on oppression: anti-Semitism, racism, and homophobia.

At the oratio's center is the historically true story of a 17-year-old Polish Jew, Herschel Gryszpan, avenging his father's death at the hands of fascists by shooting a Nazi officer in Paris. (The Germans reacted violently to this perceived insolence, herding Jews to the gas chambers with special zest following the incident.)

That a doomed but noble adolescent would appear at the center of a pederastic composer's best work is wholly predictable, but Tippett, who wrote both the words and music here, doesn't attempt to develop Herschel as a character. Instead, the boy becomes a symbol for the oppressed throughout history.

The simple words of the arias limn their suffering: "I have no money for my bread. I have no gift for my love." This is sung by a lone soprano and then resolves exquisitely into a choral version of the spiritual "Steal Away," which dreams of an escape from a torturous world. As the choir sings, the soprano voice still streaks the group vocal with mellifluous runs. Sublime. Utterly gorgeous.

This rich work also carries us through seasons. Winter is first along with the cold consequences of Herschel's assasination. By the end, it is spring again, and we are on the bank of a "Deep River" greening back into life. Tippett seems to believe in the human spirit and its power the weather atrocities and be reborn. The British composer stretches his gift for lushness and lyricism to the very end of this Bach-inspired composition. "Burn down their houses! Beat in their heads!" are among the many lines whose melodies are so memorable I could sing them to you now.

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Spend your money elsewhere.......2006-01-26

I haven't even listened through the entire CD. I don't think I can bring myself to spend my time doing so. Where to begin. From the selections I've heard, the chorus sounds incredibly thin and weak, the organ overpowering them on numerous occasions. Part of the blame in that, however, goes to the mix...the choir not getting enough mic to balance out the instruments. That happens too often in chorus/instrument recordings and it drives me batty. The music selections aren't so inspiring either. You would do much better devoting your hard-earned dollars to Eric Whitacre's acappella choral works, or any of his contemporaries.

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FOUR SONGS FROM THE BRITISH ISLES: Early One Morning. Allegro con moto tenero - The Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer
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à la Gloire de Dieu

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Charles IVES: The Unanswered Question
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This recording draws together some truly great choral pieces - from Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms through Barber's Agnus Dei, the moving choral setting of his ever-popular Adagio for Strings. Here the most prominent new world composers of the time, Ives and Barber, are brought together with old world counterparts, Poulenc and Stravinsky, in a disc of deeply felt music expressing each composers' perception of the spirituality of life. Straddling the two worlds is Michael Tippett's set of spiritual settings from "A Child of Our Time".

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