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| Management number | 205796007 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $78.30 | Model Number | 205796007 | ||
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Title: Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Artist: Pumeza Matchikiza
Label: Chandos
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 095115534120
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024-05-03
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD
Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time was composed between 1939 and 1942 as a direct response to the events leading up to (and including) the notorious Kristallnacht, in November 1938, in National Socialist Germany. Tippet first intended to write an opera, but quickly determined that this would inevitably be too literal, and that the (rather neglected) oratorio form lent greater scope for reflective and meditative interjections to the narrative. Hoping to persuade his friend and mentor T.S. Elliot to write the libretto, he sent the poet such an intricately detailed plan that Elliot responded by suggesting that Tippett, having thought so carefully about it, prepare the text himself - which he duly did. (He then went on to write his own libretti for all his future large vocal works). Set for choir, orchestra, and four soloists, the work adopts a structure that owes a debt to Handel's Messiah, which Tippett had studied intensively in the 1930s. In addition, Tippett wanted to incorporate choral interludes much as Bach had done in his passions. Rejecting Lutheran chorals and Jewish hymns, he finally settled on African-American spirituals of which he placed five within the work. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with an exceptional quartet of soloists. The album was recorded in Surround Sound in Croydon's Fairfield Halls following live performances in London's Royal Festival Hall.
Tracks:
1.9 Child of Our Time, oratorio~Part I. 8. A Spiritual: Steal away. Andante con moto
1.14 Child of Our Time, oratorio~Part II. 13. We cannot have them in our Empire. Allegro moderato -
1.28 Child of Our Time, oratorio~Part III. 27. The soul of man is impassioned... . Allegro
Artist: Pumeza Matchikiza
Label: Chandos
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 095115534120
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024-05-03
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD
Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time was composed between 1939 and 1942 as a direct response to the events leading up to (and including) the notorious Kristallnacht, in November 1938, in National Socialist Germany. Tippet first intended to write an opera, but quickly determined that this would inevitably be too literal, and that the (rather neglected) oratorio form lent greater scope for reflective and meditative interjections to the narrative. Hoping to persuade his friend and mentor T.S. Elliot to write the libretto, he sent the poet such an intricately detailed plan that Elliot responded by suggesting that Tippett, having thought so carefully about it, prepare the text himself - which he duly did. (He then went on to write his own libretti for all his future large vocal works). Set for choir, orchestra, and four soloists, the work adopts a structure that owes a debt to Handel's Messiah, which Tippett had studied intensively in the 1930s. In addition, Tippett wanted to incorporate choral interludes much as Bach had done in his passions. Rejecting Lutheran chorals and Jewish hymns, he finally settled on African-American spirituals of which he placed five within the work. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with an exceptional quartet of soloists. The album was recorded in Surround Sound in Croydon's Fairfield Halls following live performances in London's Royal Festival Hall.
Tracks:
1.9 Child of Our Time, oratorio~Part I. 8. A Spiritual: Steal away. Andante con moto
1.14 Child of Our Time, oratorio~Part II. 13. We cannot have them in our Empire. Allegro moderato -
1.28 Child of Our Time, oratorio~Part III. 27. The soul of man is impassioned... . Allegro
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