Black Swans: at Mid-Century
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Label: Parnassus
Cat No: PACD960789
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 5th November 2021
Contents
Works
Chere nuitHome, Sweet Home
Alto Rhapsody, op.53
Lieder (4), op.43
Lakme
Old Folks at Home
Porgy and Bess
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
O, the Chimneys
Stabat Mater
Berceuse creole
Ev'ry time I feel the spirit
His name so sweet (arr. Jordan)
Hold on (arr. Hall Johnson)
Honor! honor! (arr. Hall Johnson)
Little Boy (arr. R Hayes)
Sister Mary (arr. R Hayes)
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (arr. Burleigh)
The Nightingale (arr. Brockway)
Aida
Artists
Adele Addison (soprano)Betty Allen (mezzo-soprano)
Marian Anderson (contralto)
Jules Bledsoe (baritone)
Carol Brice (contralto)
Anne Brown (soprano)
Thomas Carey (baritone)
Ellabelle Davis (soprano)
Gloria Davy (soprano)
Mattiwilda Dobbs (soprano)
Todd Duncan (baritone)
Ruby Elzy (soprano)
Charles Holland (tenor)
Inez Matthews (soprano)
Dorothy Maynor (soprano)
Robert McFerrin (baritone)
Anna Maria Revere (soprano)
Margaret Tynes (soprano)
William Warfield (baritone)
Camilla Williams (soprano)
Lois Gauger (piano)
Kjell Olsson (piano)
Shulamit Ran (piano)
William Allen (piano)
Borislav Bazala (piano)
Otto Herz (piano)
Ralph Lindsey (piano)
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus
Juanita Hall Choir
St Hedwig’s Cathedral Choir
Tanglewood Men’s Choir
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble
Philadelphia Orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Zimbler Sinfonietta
Conductors
Vincenzo BellezzaKarl Forster
George Gershwin
Robert Johnson
Serge Koussevitzky
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph Post
Thompson Stone
Warren Edward Vincent
Works
Chere nuitHome, Sweet Home
Alto Rhapsody, op.53
Lieder (4), op.43
Lakme
Old Folks at Home
Porgy and Bess
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
O, the Chimneys
Stabat Mater
Berceuse creole
Ev'ry time I feel the spirit
His name so sweet (arr. Jordan)
Hold on (arr. Hall Johnson)
Honor! honor! (arr. Hall Johnson)
Little Boy (arr. R Hayes)
Sister Mary (arr. R Hayes)
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (arr. Burleigh)
The Nightingale (arr. Brockway)
Aida
Artists
Adele Addison (soprano)Betty Allen (mezzo-soprano)
Marian Anderson (contralto)
Jules Bledsoe (baritone)
Carol Brice (contralto)
Anne Brown (soprano)
Thomas Carey (baritone)
Ellabelle Davis (soprano)
Gloria Davy (soprano)
Mattiwilda Dobbs (soprano)
Todd Duncan (baritone)
Ruby Elzy (soprano)
Charles Holland (tenor)
Inez Matthews (soprano)
Dorothy Maynor (soprano)
Robert McFerrin (baritone)
Anna Maria Revere (soprano)
Margaret Tynes (soprano)
William Warfield (baritone)
Camilla Williams (soprano)
Lois Gauger (piano)
Kjell Olsson (piano)
Shulamit Ran (piano)
William Allen (piano)
Borislav Bazala (piano)
Otto Herz (piano)
Ralph Lindsey (piano)
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus
Juanita Hall Choir
St Hedwig’s Cathedral Choir
Tanglewood Men’s Choir
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble
Philadelphia Orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Zimbler Sinfonietta
Conductors
Vincenzo BellezzaKarl Forster
George Gershwin
Robert Johnson
Serge Koussevitzky
Eugene Ormandy
Joseph Post
Thompson Stone
Warren Edward Vincent
About
First time on CD
Contents:
CD 1
1. Handel - Messiah: Rejoice greatly
- Adele Addison (soprano)
- Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Zimbler Sinfonietta / Thompson Stone
Classics Record Library SRL-4573 (stereo), 1959, originally Kapp 3.8000S
2. Bishop - Home, Sweet Home
3. Anon. - Every Time I feel the Spirit
- Marian Anderson (contralto), unknown accompaniment
Voice of America 16" 33 1/3 rpm lacquer disc, unissued (1943-45)
4. Kern - Show Boat: Old Man River
- Jules Bledsoe (baritone)
Decca K 631 (78 rpm), London, c. 1932
5. Brahms - Alto Rhapsody, op.53
- Carol Brice (contralto)
- Tanglewood Men’s Choir, Boston Symphony Orchestra / Serge Koussevitzky
Live, 3 August 1946
6. Mortensen - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Frost)
Tono 28022 (mx 3166 A), 78 rpm
7. Brockway (arr.) - The Nightingale, ‘One Morning in May’
Tono 28036 (mx 3163 C), 78 rpm
8. Burleigh (arr.) - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Tono 28021 (mx 3163 C), 78 rpm
9. Johnson (arr.) - Hold On
Tono 28021 (mx 3164 B), 78 rpm
10. Jordan (arr.) - His Name So Sweet
Tono 28036 (mx 3817C), 78 rpm
11. Mortensen - Adventures of Isabel (Nash)
Tono 28022 (mx 3165 C), 78 rpm
- Anne Brown (soprano), Kjell Olson (piano) (c. 1949-50)
12. Rossini - Stabat Mater: Fac ut portem
- Betty Allen (mezzo-soprano)
- St. Hedwig’s Cathedral Choir, Berlin Symphony Orchestra / Karl Forster
HMV (Germany) SMVP 8076 (stereo), June, 1960
13. Hayes (arr.) - Sister Mary
14. Hayes (arr.) - Little Boy
- Thomas Carey (baritone), Lois Gauger (piano)
Century 39417, LP, “Christmas on the Oklahoma. Campus”
15. Bachelet - Chère nuit (mx. AA 56502-1G)
16. Sauguet - Berceuse creole (mx. AA 56502-2C)
- Ellabelle Davis (soprano), Kjell Olsson (piano)
Philips A-56502 (78 rpm) (c. 1950)
17. Delibes - Lakmé: Où va la jeune Hindoue (“Bell Song”)
- Mattiwilda Dobbs (soprano)
- Sydney Symphony Orchestra / Joseph Post
Live performance, Sydney, 1955
CD 2
1. Shulamit Ran - O, the Chimneys (poems by Nelly Sachs)
- Gloria Davy (soprano), Shulamit Ran (piano)
- New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble / Robert Johnson
Vox Turnabout TV 34492, stereo LP (1973) (by kind permission of Naxos)
2. Brahms - Von ewiger Liebe, op.43 no.1
Philips A 45403, 78 rpm
3. Saint-Saëns - Danse macabre
4. Mussorgsky - The Seminarist
Philips A 56503, 78 rpm (c. 1950) (mx A 56503 A/B)
- Todd Duncan (baritone), William Allen (piano)
5. Gershwin - Porgy and Bess: My Man’s Gone Now
- Ruby Elzy (soprano)
- Rehearsal orchestra / George Gershwin
Mark56 LP (19 July 1935) (from lacquer disc)
6. Dawson - Talk About a Child that do Love Jesus
7. Johnson (arr.) - Honor! Honor!
- Charles Holland (tenor), Ralph Lindsey (piano)
Victor 4556 (78 rpm), c. 1939
8. Foster - Old Folks at Home
- Inez Matthews (soprano), Juanita Hall Choir
Hit Record 8078 9 (mx M-269-2)
9. Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro: Dove sono
- Dorothy Maynor (soprano)
- Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy
Live performance, 20 October 1945
10. Verdi - Aida: Quest’ asissa
11. Verdi - Aida: E in suo potere lo sto! In poser di lei!
- Robert McFerrin (baritone), Anna Maria Rovere (soprano)
- Naples Opera / Vincenzo Bellezza
Live recording, 15 July 1956
12. Gershwin - Porgy and Bess: Summertime
- Margaret Tynes (soprano)
- Orchestra / Warren Edward Vincent
Design DLP 110 (mono LP), 1960
Dougherty (arr.) - Sea Shanties:
13. Rio Grande
14. Blow Ye Winds
15. Across the Western Ocean
16. Mobile Bay
17. Shenandoah
- William Warfield (baritone), Otto Herz (piano)
Columbia 10" ML 2206 (LP), 1952
18. Carpenter - When I bring you coloured toys (Tagore)
- Camillia Williams (soprano), Borislav Bazala (piano)
MGM 10" E140 (LP), 1952
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