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Pt. 1. Chorus: The World turns on its dark side
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 1. The Argument: Man has measured the heavens interludium
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 1. Scena: Is evil then good?
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 1. The Narrator: Now in Each Nation
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 1. Chorus of the Oppressed: When shall the usurer's city cease
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 1. I have no money for my bread
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt.1. Soprano Solo: How can I cherish my man in such days
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt.1. A Spiritual: Steal Away
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. A star rises in mid-winter
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. The Narrator: And a time came
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. Chorus Of The Persecutors And The Persecuted: Away with them
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. The Narrator: Where they could, they fled from the terror
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. Chorus Of The Self-Righteous: We cannot have them in our empire
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. The Narrator: And the boy's mother
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. Scena: O my son
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. A Spiritual: Nobodys knows the trouble i see
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. Scena: The boy becomes desperate in his agony
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. The Narrator: They took a terrible Vengeance
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. The Terror: Burn down their houses
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. The Narrator: Men were ashamed
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. A Spiritual Of Anger: Go down, moses
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. The Boy Sings In His Prison: My dreams are all shattered
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. The Mother: What have I done to you, my son?
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. The dark forces rise like a flood
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 2. A Spritual: O, by and by
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 3. The cold deepens
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 3. The soul of man
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 3. Scena: The words of wisdom are these
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 3. Perludium
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 3. General Ensemble: I would know my shadow and my light
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam
Pt. 3. A Spiritual: Deep river
Jill Gomez, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, John Shirley-Quirk, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Helen Watts, BBC Symphony Chorus and Kenneth Woollam