Radio 3 in Concert

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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The best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Experience the best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Radio 3 in Concert: A Child of Our Time

A Child of Our Time

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Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic in Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time.

The LPO is joined by the London Adventist Chorale, plus an exceptional team of soloists in a performance of Tippett's great wartime oratorio.

“The world turns on its dark side”: so begins Michael Tippett’s choral masterpiece ‘A Child of our Time’, composed during the early years of the Second World War and giving expression to Tippett’s hopes for a better world. Tippett’s secular oratorio is built around the plangent melodies of African-American spirituals – and for this performance, the LPO forces are joined by the London Adventist Chorale, plus an exceptional team of soloists.

Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music – written just a year earlier, by another musical visionary – offers radiant calm before Tippett’s emotional storm.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Tippett:  A Child of Our Time


Nadine Benjamin, soprano 
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano 
Kenneth Tarver, tenor 
Roderick Williams, baritone 
London Philharmonic Choir 
London Adventist Chorale 
Soloists of the Royal College of Music
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor

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