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Tippett US 24/12/2004 11:03Am Page 12 557570bk Tippett US 24/12/2004 11:03am Page 12 PART ONE ^ A Spiritual - Nobody knows... 1:36 1 The world turns... (Chorus) 4:05 (Chorus and Soli) TIPPETT 2 The Argument - Man has measured... 2:14 & Scena - The boy becomes desperate... 1:30 (Alto) (Bass / Alto) 3 Interludium - Scena 4:13 * The Narrator - They took a 0:29 A Child of Our Time Is evil then good... (Chorus and Alto) terrible vengeance... (Bass) (Oratorio in Three Parts) 4 The Narrator - Now in each nation... 1:18 ( The Terror - Burn down their houses...1:06 (Bass) (Chorus) Robinson • Walker • Garrison • Cheek 5 Chorus of the Oppressed 2:21 ) The Narrator - Men were ashamed... 0:39 When shall... (Bass) City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Orchestra 6 I have no money... (Tenor) 3:25 ¡ A Spiritual of Anger - 3:08 Go down Moses... (Chorus and Bass) 7 How can I cherish... (Soprano) 3:33 Sir Michael Tippett ™ The boy sings in his prison 3:45 8 A Spiritual - Steal away... 2:32 (Chorus and Soli) My dreams... (Tenor) £ The Mother - What have I done... 1:36 (Soprano) PART TWO ¢ The dark forces... (Alto) 0:52 9 A star rises... (Chorus) 3:27 ∞ A Spiritual - O, by and by... 1:28 0 The Narrator - And a time came... 0:19 (Chorus and Soprano) (Bass) ! Chorus of Persecutors and Persecuted PART THREE Away with them... (Double Chorus) 1:00 § The cold deepens... (Chorus) 4:20 @ The Narrator - Where they could... 0:29 (Bass) ¶ The soul of man... (Alto) 2:28 # Chorus of the Self-righteous 0:48 • Scena - The words of wisdom... 4:55 We cannot have them... (Chorus and Bass) $ The Narrator - And the boy’s mother... 0:16 ª Preludium - I would know 6:32 (Bass) my shadow... (Chorus and Soli) % Scena - O my son... 1:23 º A Spiritual - Deep river... 3:31 (Soloists) (Chorus and Soli) 8.557570 12 557570bk Tippett US 24/12/2004 11:03am Page 2 Sir Michael Tippett (1905–1998) ª Chorus & Soli º A SPIRITUAL A Child of Our Time Tenor Chorus & Soli I would know my shadow and my light, Deep river, my home is over Jordan, Michael Tippett was one of the most gifted and most equally by Stravinsky, sixteenth-century madrigals and so shall I at last be whole. Deep river, Lord, inspiring figures in twentieth-century British musical jazz. I want to cross over into camp-ground. life. He was born on 2nd January 1905 in London, but After the War Tippett became well known not only Bass grew up in a village in the East Anglian county of as a conductor but also as a broadcaster on musical and Then courage, brother, dare the grave passage. O, chillun! O, don’t you want to go, Suffolk and at a succession of boarding schools. cultural topics; meanwhile, he was working for several To that gospel feast, Because his parents lived most of the time on the years on the first of his five operas, The Midsummer Soprano That promised land, Continent, he travelled extensively in Europe, acquiring Marriage, which eventually reached the stage in 1955. Here is no final grieving, but an abiding hope. That land where all is peace? facility in languages and an unusually international This and two satellite works of the 1950s, the Piano Walk into heaven, and take my seat, outlook. Childhood piano lessons and concert-going Concerto and the Second Symphony, marked a peak of Alto And cast my crown at Jesus’ feet. prompted the ambition of becoming a composer, which rich, exuberant invention in his music. In the early The moving waters renew the earth. was furthered by study at the Royal College of Music in 1960s, he adopted more austere textures, complemented It is spring. Deep river, my home is over Jordan, London between 1923 and 1928, and later by private by mosaic-like construction, in such works as the opera I want to cross over into camp-ground, lessons with R.O. Morris. During the 1930s Tippett King Priam, the Concerto for Orchestra and the short (Chorus repeats the words of the soloists) Lord! lived in the Surrey countryside south of London, earning oratorio The Vision of St Augustine. Despite turning a frugal living from teaching, and becoming involved in sixty in 1965, and being knighted the following year, left-wing politics. He withheld most of his compositions Tippett remained apart from the Establishment, of that period: his earliest published works are his First retaining his iconoclastic youthfulness of manner, and String Quartet, completed in 1935 (and in fact rewritten delighting in collaborations with young players and eight years later), and the first of his four Piano Sonatas, performances to young audiences. He became especially composed in 1936–38. Early in the Second World War, popular in the United States: his visits there brought a Tippett was appointed Director of Music at Morley new swathe of influences, from both American classical College, an adult education institute in south London; he music and popular culture, into such works of the 1970s was to hold the post until 1951, conducting the Morley as the operas The Knot Garden and The Ice Break and Choir in numerous concerts of early and new music. A the Third Symphony; and American commissions or co- lifelong pacifist, he was imprisoned for three months in commissions in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in his 1943 as a conscientious objector, but his stock as a Fourth and last Symphony, his evening-long choral work composer rose gradually, through performances and The Mask of Time, and his last opera New Year. broadcasts of works including his Concerto for Double Something of Tippett’s early lyricism returned in his String Orchestra and A Child of Our Time. These later works, which also include a Triple Concerto, the established his individual compositional voice, with last of his five String Quartets, and his farewell to Naxos Radio traditional forms modelled on those of Beethoven filled composition, The Rose Lake for orchestra. In his Over 50 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia out in contrapuntal textures – line against line as autobiography, Those Twentieth Century Blues, Tippett Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality opposed to chord after chord – and melodies animated declared with characteristic optimism ‘My real hope is www.naxosradio.com by lithe syncopated or irregular rhythms, suggested to see in the new millennium’; but he died in 1998, six 8.557570 2 11 8.557570 557570bk Tippett US 24/12/2004 11:03am Page 10 £ The Mother: Her face will be illumined like the sun. days after his 93rd birthday. form of the work, the composer himself said, recalls the Soprano Solo Then is the time of his deliverance. Tippett wrote his oratorio A Child of Our Time tripartite arrangement of Handel’s Messiah, in which the What have I done to you, my son? between 1939 and 1941; its first performance, at the first part consists of ‘great but general prophecies’, the What will become of us now? SCENA Royal Adelphi Theatre in London in March 1944, was second of narrative, and the third of ‘commentary and The springs of hope are dried up. • Bass Solo one of the outstanding artistic events in the capital judgment’. Within this framework, there are more My heart aches in unending pain. The words of wisdom are these: during the War. As later with all his operas, he wrote his specific reminiscences of Handel’s oratorios and of Winter cold means inner warmth, own text; at one stage, he asked the great poet T.S. Eliot Bach’s Passion settings, in such things as the dual rôles ¢ Alto Solo the secret nursery of the seed. to write it, but on seeing his draft outline Eliot advised of the soloists as characters in the drama and The dark forces rise like a flood. Tippett to complete it himself, as anything he might commentators, the choral ‘crowd scenes’, among them Men’s hearts are heavy: they cry for peace. Chorus write would be so overtly poetic as to get in the way of the double chorus of persecutors and persecuted in Part How shall we have patience for the the music. The work was inspired by an incident which Two, the frequent use of fugal texture, the constantly ∞ A SPIRITUAL consummation of the mystery? took place in Paris in November 1938: a seventeen-year- varying instrumental colours of successive numbers or Chorus & Soprano Solo Who will comfort us in the going through? old Polish Jew, a refugee whose family had been sections, and most obviously the familiar first-inversion O, by and by, by and by, arrested by the Gestapo and stranded with thousands of chords which herald the solo bass’s passages of I’m going to lay down my heavy load. Bass others at the Polish frontier, and who was himself being narrative recitative. But the musical language of the Patience is born in the tension of loneliness. sheltered illegally in France by his uncle and aunt, shot work is by no means pastiche: it is Tippett’s own, I know my robe’s going to fit me well, The garden lies beyond the desert. and killed a diplomat at the German Legation. He was recognisably English, especially in its madrigal-like I tried it on at the gates of hell. tried and imprisoned by the French authorities; and the adherence to the natural stresses of the words against the Chorus Nazis, by way of reprisal for the killing, launched one of underlying pulse, and coloured by echoes of jazz and O, hell is deep and a dark despair, Is the man of destiny master of us all? their most savage pogroms in Germany and Austria, the popular music such as the tango rhythm of the tenor’s ‘I O, stop, poor sinner, and don’t go there! Shall those cast out be unavenged? notorious ‘Kristallnacht’.
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