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Composer:
Michael Tippett

Artist(s):
Faye Robinson
Sarah Walker

Conductor:
Michael Tippett

Background: Michael Tippett's oratorio and choral masterpiece, A Child of Our Time, written at the beginning of the second world war as an expression of 'man’s inhumanity to man', has become one of his most widely known works and one which is seen to symbolise the composer's extra-musical concerns, both political and psychological.

Modelled on Handel's Messiah, the emotional and dramatic core of the work is found in the five Spirituals, in which the suffering of oppressed peoples throughout history - from the Israelites in Egypt, via black American slaves, to the Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe - is given universal resonance. This unique recording was conducted by the composer himself when he was 85.

CATALOGUE NR: 8557570
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.77 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 31-Jan-2005

COMPOSER: Michael Tippett
TITLE: A Child of Our Time
ORCHESTRA: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Michael Tippett
ARTISTS: Faye Robinson   Sarah Walker   Jon Garrison   John Cheek

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: originally released on Collins Classics - Apr-2005 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 3 star

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