Black Swans: Mid Century
Available To Order (2-3 Days)
About This Release
This is a follow up to the astoundlingly successful Album "Black Swans: Earliest African-American Classical Stars". Produced by Leslie Gerber with painstaking re-mastering from Steve Smolian, this 2 CD set follows the canon through to the early 1960s.
Tracklist
1
Handel: Messiah-Rejoice greatly
2
Bishop: Home, Sweet Home
3
Anon.: Every Time I feel the Spirit
4
Kern: Show Boat-Old Man River
5
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody / Carol Brice, contralto
6
Mortensen: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Frost)
7
Brockway (arr.): The Nightingale, `One Morning in May'
8
Burleigh (arr.): Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
9
Johnson (arr.): Hold On
10
Jordan (arr.): His Name So Sweet
11
Mortensen: Adventures of Isabel
12
Rossini: Stabat Mater-Fac ut portem
13
Hayes (arr.): Sister Mary
14
Hayes (arr.): Little Boy
15
Bachelet: Chère nuit
16
Sauguet: Berceuse creole
17
Delibes: Lakmé-Ou va la jeune indoue ("Bell Song")
18
Disc 2:Shulamit Ran: O, the Chimneys (poems by Nelly Sachs)
19
Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe
20
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
21
Mussorgsky: The Seminarianist
22
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess-My Man's Gone Now
23
Dawson: Talk About a Child that do Love Jesus
24
Johnson (arr.): Honor! Honor!
25
Foster: Old Folks at Home
26
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro-Dove sono
27
Verdi: Aida-Quest' asissa
28
Verdi: Aida-E in uo potere lo sto! In poser di lei!
29
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess-Summertime
30
Daugherty (arr.): Sea Shanties:Rio Grande
31
Blow Ye Winds
32
Across the Western Ocean
33
Mobile Bay
34
Shenandoah
35
Carpenter: When I bring you coloured toys
