Edward Gardner - Tippett: A Child of Our Time (CD)

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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Tippett: A Child of Our Time - Part 1 - The world turns on its 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