Follow-up to very successful ‘Black Swans’ (first African American Classical artists) which sold out in USA (PACD96067)

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