Michael Kemp Tippett
Born: 2nd January 1905, London, England
Died: 8th January 1998, London, England
Nationality: English
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the leading British composers of the 20th century. Among his best-known works are the oratorio A Child of Our Time, the orchestral Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the opera The Midsummer Marriage.
Tippett's talent developed slowly. He withdrew or destroyed his earliest compositions, and was 30 before any of his works were published.
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Contemporary Music Round-Up - Spring 2025
11th Jun 2025
In this round-up of contemporary releases from the first months of 2025, we look at the keyboard through new eyes, take to the stage for twenty-first-century opera suites, encounter exciting piano concertos for the first time, and hear the viola in a whole new light.
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Martyn Brabbins on Michael Tippett's New Year
12th Mar 2025
The conductor discusses the world premiere recording of Tippett's final opera, a 'space-aged fairytale' from 1989 which centres on a troubled child psychologist's transformative encounter with time-travellers from the future.
Popular Genres: Tippett
Orchestral
Chamber
Instrumental
Choral
Concertos
Popular Works: Tippett
- A Child of Our Time (12)
- Bonny at morn (4)
- Boyhood's End (5)
- Concerto for double string orchestra (19)
- Concerto For Orchestra (5)
- Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello & Orchestra 'Triple Concerto' (7)
- Dance, Clarion Air (8)
- Divertimento on Sellinger's Round (7)
- Fanfare for Brass (9)
- Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (21)
- Fantasia on a Theme of Handel (4)
- Five Negro Spirituals from A Child Of Our Time (15)
- Little Music (11)
- Lullaby (4)
- Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense) (14)
- Music (6)
- Piano Concerto (14)
- Piano Sonata No. 1 'Fantasy Sonata' (11)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (9)
- Piano Sonata No. 3 (6)
- Piano Sonata No. 4 (4)
- Plebs angelica (10)
- Praeludium for brass, bells & percussion (4)
- Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage (9)
- Sonata for four horns (4)
- Songs for Ariel (14)
- String Quartet No. 1 (6)
- String Quartet No. 2 (10)
- String Quartet No. 3 (6)
- String Quartet No. 4 (8)
- Suite in D for the Birthday of Prince Charles (5)
- Symphony No. 1 (6)
- Symphony No. 2 (9)
- Symphony No. 3 (5)
- Symphony No. 4 (9)
- The Blue Guitar (9)
- The Heart's Assurance (6)
- The Source (4)
- The Weeping Babe (9)
- The Windhover (4)
Recent Best Sellers: Tippett
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Michael Tippett: Piano Concerto; Benjamin Britten: Diversions; William Walton: Sinfonia Concertante
Clare Hammond (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, George Vass
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Awards, 2026 Shortlist, Concerto
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Special offer. Come to Me in My Dreams | 120 years of songs from the RCM
Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano)
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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Tippett - Orchestral Music
London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Colin Davis & Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Fanfares
Onyx Brass, John Wilson
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New Releases: Tippett
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New. 'Prelude' - Sir Neville Marriner Conducts Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Grieg and Others
William Bennett (flute), Kurt Moll (bass), Catherine Latham (recorder), Iona Brown (violin), John Constable (harpsichord), Philip Pickett (recorder), Barry Tuckwell (french horn), Lucia Popp (soprano), Maurice André (trumpet), Bernard Soustrot (trumpet), Andrei Gavrilov (piano), John Harle (saxophone), Alan Civil (french horn), Jorma Hynninen (bass), Rodney Slatford (double bass), Helen Donath (soprano), Mitchell Dalton (guitar), Hans Kalafusz (violin), Hansjürgen Scholze (organ), David Pyatt (french horn), Cécile Ousset (piano), Denis Vigay (cello), Kenneth Sillito (violin), Christian Zacharias (piano), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Bruno Giuranna (viola), Till Fellner (piano), Ann Murray (soprano), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Ambrosian Singers, Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Northern Sinfonia, Minnesota Orchestra, Leipzig Radio Choir, Staatskapelle Dresden, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner
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New. In the Heat of Classics
Thomas Adès (piano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Terry Wey (countertenor), Paul O'Dette (lute), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Viktoria Postnikova (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Marcel Reyans (tenor), Nicolas Courjal (bass), Samuel Ramey (baritone), Dong Hyek Lim (piano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano), Hans Hotter (baritone), Vilde Frang (violin), Hélène Grimaud (piano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Antoine Palloc (piano), Sharon Kam (clarinet), Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Catherine King (mezzo-soprano), Jacob Heringman (lute), Stéphane Grappelli (violin), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Jack Sewing (double bass), Marc Fosset (guitar), Martin Taylor (guitar), Christian Ivaldi (piano), Michel Debost (flute), Monique Rollin (zither), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Nathan Berg (baritone), James Morris (bass-baritone), Dan Dressen (tenor), Peter Barkworth (narrator), Lesley Garrett (vocals), Michael Ball (vocals), Dalal (piano), Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Gottlob Frick (bass), Jean-François Heisser (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Sarah Chang (violin), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Martha Argerich (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Peter Sadlo (percussion), Biao Li (percussion), Claudio Estay (percussion), Philipp Jungk (percussion), Dmitri Alexeev (piano), Anne Fournet (narrator), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, Kammersensemble de Paris, Coro Gulbenkian, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Orchestre de Paris, Il Pomo d'Oro, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Il Giardino d'Amore Choir, Il Giardino d'Amore, Opéra National de Lyon, London Classical Players, Orchestre National de France, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Sinfonietta, Staatskapelle Dresden, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sextuor Jeanne Loriod, Concentus musicus Wien, English Chamber Orchestra, Brentano Quartet, BBC Concert Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Wiener Symphoniker, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Estonian State Academic Choir, Helsinki University Choir, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Tiffin Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Plasson, Robert Irving, William Christie, Armin Jordan, John Nelson, Evgeny Svetlanov, Stephen Stubbs, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alexandre Desplat, Maxim Emelyanychev, Thomas Dausgaard, André Previn, Ton Koopman, Kent Nagano, Stefan Plewniak, Louis Langrée, Sir Roger Norrington, Didier Benetti, Philip Ledger, Sir Charles Groves, Vernon Handley, Robin Ticciati, Bernard Haitink, Gregor Bühl, Jonathan Tunick, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Marius Constant, Sir Neville Marriner, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Jeanne Loriod, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Carlo Maria Giulini, Philip Brunelle, Michel Legrand, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Andrew Davis, Herbert von Karajan, Libor Pešek, Otto Klemperer, Jean Martinon, Paavo Berglund, André Cluytens, Daniel Barenboim
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