Here we have Sir Simon Rattle in an absorbing talk with Andrew Sachs about Sir Michael Tippett's oratorio, "A Child of Our Time". Tippett also wrote the libretto.

Composed between 1939 and 1941, the work was inspired by events that affected Tippett profoundly: the assassination in 1938 of a German diplomat by a young Jewish refugee, and the Nazi government's reaction in the form of a violent pogrom against its Jewish population—called Kristallnacht.

With grateful thanks to YouTuber Andrew Toovey for preserving this video footage in his upload back in 2010.

Excerpt performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, with Faye Robinson (soprano), Cynthia Clarey (mezzo-soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor) and Benjamin Luxon (bass).
Filmed by Barrie Gavin in 1995.

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