Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- 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...
Free Music Notes for Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Free Music Review: A profound reading by the composer, lackig only the best soloists and sonics
Hit: 4 Stars
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.
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