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A Child of Our Time

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Oratorio by Sir Michael Tippett Libretto by THE composer
In November 1938 a young Jewish refugee shot and killed a German diplomat in Paris, and unleashed the most terrible of Nazi persecutions in Germany. Tippett, while remaining true to the story. translates it into one of the fundamental dilemmas of human experience.
ELSIE MORISON (soprano)
PAMELA BOWDEN (contralto) RICHARD LEWIS (tenor) RICHARD STANDEN (bass)
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Michael Tippett
Soprano:
Elsie Morison
Contralto:
Pamela Bowden
Tenor:
Richard Lewis
Bass:
Richard Standen
Conducted By:
John Pritchard
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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