A Child of our time (64:16) -- Choral pieces. Dance, clarion air / text by Christopher Fry (4:54) -- The source / text by Edward Thomas (2:23) -- The windhover / text by Gerard Manley Hopkins (2:17) -- Lullaby / text by William Butler Yeats (4:05) -- Bonny at morn (2:51) -- Four songs from the British Isles. Early one morning : England ; Lilliburlero : Ireland ; Poortith cauld : Scotland ; Gwenllian : Wales (12:54) -- Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (7:33) -- Plebs Angelica (3:21) -- The weeping babe / text by Edith Sitwell (4:29) -- Music / text by Percy Bysshe Shelley (3:46) -- Five Negro spirituals : from A child of our time. Steal away (2:26) ; Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (1:18) ; Go down, Moses (3:01) ; By and by (1:07) ; Deep river (3:21).
Language
English
Note
1st work originally released in 1975 by Universal International Music BV; Choral pieces originally released in 1978 by Decca Music Group.
Language (note)
1st work an oratorio sung in English; Choral pieces sung in English and Latin.
Author
Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998, composer.
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
In 1st work: Jessye Norman, soprano ; Janet Baker, contralto ; Richard Cassilly, tenor ; John Shirley-Quirk, bass ; BBC Singers ; BBC Choral Society ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Colin Davis, conductor. In "Choral Pieces": Caryl Kelly, soprano ; Karen Shelby and Kate Eckersley, mezzo-sopranos ; Philip Cave, tenor ; Paul Cann, bass ; John Turner, David Pugsley and Alan Lumsden, recorders ; Stephen Cleobury, organ and piano ; Schola Cantorum of Oxford ; Nicholas Cleobury, conductor.