The oratorio 'A Child of Our Time' was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the 'Kristallnacht' pogrom of November 1938. For his oratorio Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach Passions and Handel's Messiah which share with this contemporary morality the subject of the death of an individual set against the universal background of human suffering. Tippett's use of the spiritual as a contemporary equivalent for the Lutheran chorale of the Bach set...

• A Spiritual 2
• A Spiritual 3
• A Spiritual 4
• A Spiritual Of Anger
• A Spirtual
• Alto Solo
• Alto Solo 2
• Chorus 1
• Chorus 2
• Chorus 3
• Chorus Of The Oppressed
• Chorus Of The Self-Righteous
• Double Chorus Of Persecutors And Persecuted
• General Ensemble
• Scena
• Scena: Bass And Chorus
• Scena: Duet
• Scena: the Mother, The Uncle And Aunt, And The Boy
• Soprano Solo
• Tenor Solo
• The Boy Sings In His Prison
• The Narrator
• The Narrator 2
• The Narrator 3
• Th...