The late Sir Andrew Davis was a life-long advocate for the music of Sir Michael Tippett so it’s fitting that one of his last recordings (perhaps the last?) should be of that composer’s A Child of Our Time.  It’s an unusual piece in many ways.  It’s an oratorio for solo quartet, chorus and orchestra and its structure reflects both Messiah and the Bach Passions.  The subject matter is anti-Semitism in Germany as a specific example of “man’s inhumanity to man” more generally. 

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