Black Swans: at Mid Century

Artista: McFerrin, Robert / Anderson, Marian / Warfield

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: PACD

Catalogo: 96078

Faixas: 1.1 Handel: Messiah–Rejoice greatly
1.2 Bishop: Home, Sweet Home
1.3 Anon.: Every Time I feel the Spirit
1.4 Kern: Show Boat–Old Man River
1.5 Brahms: Alto Rhapsody / Carol Brice, contralto
1.6 Mortensen: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Frost)
1.7 Brockway (arr.): The Nightingale, ‘One Morning in May’
1.8 Burleigh (arr.): Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
1.9 Johnson (arr.): Hold On
1.10 Jordan (arr.): His Name So Sweet
1.11 Mortensen: Adventures of Isabel
1.12 Rossini: Stabat Mater–Fac ut portem
1.13 Hayes (arr.): Sister Mary
1.14 Hayes (arr.): Little Boy
1.15 Bachelet: Chère nuit
1.16 Sauguet: Berceuse creole
1.17 Delibes: Lakmé–Ou va la jeune indoue (“Bell Song”)
1.18 Disc 2:Shulamit Ran: O, the Chimneys (poems by Nelly Sachs)
1.19 Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe
1.20 Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
1.21 Mussorgsky: The Seminarianist
1.22 Gershwin: Porgy and Bess–My Man’s Gone Now
1.23 Dawson: Talk About a Child that do Love Jesus
1.24 Johnson (arr.): Honor! Honor!
1.25 Foster: Old Folks at Home
1.26 Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro–Dove sono
1.27 Verdi: Aida–Quest’ asissa
1.28 Verdi: Aida–E in uo potere lo sto! In poser di lei!
1.29 Gershwin: Porgy and Bess–Summertime
1.30 Daugherty (arr.): Sea Shanties:Rio Grande
1.31 Blow Ye Winds
1.32 Across the Western Ocean
1.33 Mobile Bay
1.34 Shenandoah
1.35 Carpenter: When I bring you coloured toys

Parnassus Records is pleased to release a follow-up to their acclaimed “Black Swans” anthology, which returned to international availability extraordinarily rare early recordings of African-American opera singers. The new release, “Black Swans at Mid-Century”, contains over two hours of music and focuses on Black artists of the mid-twentieth century.