Study ScoreThis oratorio was Tippett's artistic and emotional response to the events that led to the "Kristallnacht" pogrom of November 1938. Tippett used as his formal and historical models the Bach
Study ScoreWritten between 1953 and 1955, this concerto may be seen as both amid-20th-century commentary upon, and a reaction against, the former heroic and percussive concerto types. Its initial insp