Pochodzący z Wielkiej Brytanii wybitny kompozytor Michael Kemp Tippett, urodzony w 1905 roku, zmarł w 1998 roku. Jest postrzegany jako jeden z najwybitniejszych twórców XX wieku muzyki poważnej współczesnej. Trudnił się również dyrygenturą swoich dzieł. W jego repertuarze usłyszymy: opery, dzieła chóralne, symfonie, kwartety smyczkowe, sonaty fortepianowe, koncerty, cykle pieśni czy muzykę kameralną. Tracklista: 1. Part 1: The World Turns On Its Dark Side (Chorus) 2. Part 1: The Argument - Man Has Measured The Heavens With A Telescope (Alto) 3. Part 1: Interludium - Scena - Is Evil Then Good (Chorus And Alto) 4. Part 1: The Narrator - Now In Each Nation There Were Some Cast Out (Bass) 5. Part 1: Chorus Of The Oppressed - When Shall The Usurers' City Cease 6. Part 1: I Have No Money For My Bread (Tenor) 7. Part 1: How Can I Cherish My Man In Such Days (Soprano) 8. Part 1: A Spiritual - Steal Away (Chorus And Soli) 9. Part 2: A Star Rises In Mid - Winter (Chorus) 10. Part 2: The Narrator - And A Time Came (Bass) 11. Part 2: Chorus Of Persecutors And Persecuted - Away With Them! (Double Chorus) 12. Part 2: The Narrator - Where They Could, They Fled From The Terror (Bass) 13. Part 2: Chorus Of The Self - Righteous - We Cannot Have Them In Our Empire 14. Part 2: The Narrator - And The Boy's Mother Wrote A Letter (Bass) 15. Part 2: Scena - O My Son! (Soloists) 16. Part 2: A Spiritual - Nobody Knows The Trouble I See, Lord (Chorus And Soli) 17. Part 2: Scena - The Boy Becomes Desperate In His Agony (Bass, Alto) 18. Part 2: The Terror - Burn Down Their Houses! (Chorus) 20. Part 2: The Narrator - Men Were Ashamed Of What Was Done (Bass) 21. Part 2: A Spiritual Of Anger - Go Down, Moses (Chorus And Bass) 22. Part 2: The Boy Sings In His Prison - My Dreams Are All Shattered In A Ghastly Reality (Tenor) 23. Part 2: The Mother - What Have I Done To You, My Son (Soprano) 24. Part 2: The Dark Forces Rise Like A Flood (Alto) 25. Part 2: A Spiritual - O, By And By (Chorus And Soprano) 26. Part 3: The Cold Deepens (Chorus) 27. Part 3: The Soul Of Man Is Impassioned Like A Woman (Alto) 28. Part 3: Scena - The Words Of Wisdom Are These (Bass, Chorus) 29. Part 3: Preludium - I Would Know My Shadow And My Light (Chorus And Soli) 30. Part 3: A Spiritual - Deep River, My Home Is Over Jordan (Chorus And Soli)
- Wykonawca Various Artists
- Data premiery 2005-01-01
- Nośnik CD