Radio 3 in Concert: Turning to Darkness

Tom McKinney introduces Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. The performance of the secular oratorio opens the CBSO's new concert season under its Musical Director Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla, and is presented alongside a piece in a similar vein, from the same period, by Tippett's contemporary, Benjamin Britten. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time. Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla (conductor), Talise Trevigne (soprano), Felicity Palmer (mezzo), Joshua Stewart (teno), Brindley Sherratt (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus