BLACK SWANS: EARLIEST AFRICAN-AMERICAN CLASSICAL

$12.93
Label
PARNASSUS
Release Date
August 23, 2019
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Harry Burleigh
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 23, 2019
    • UPC
      602003687310
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PACD96067.2
    • LABEL
      PARNASSUS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical Vocals
    Works ⌄

    1. Go Down Moses

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Henry Thacker Burleigh

    2. I Don't Feel No Ways Tired

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Edward Boatner

    3. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Edward Boatner

    4. In the Bottoms: No. 4. Barcarolle: Morning

      Composer: Robert Nathaniel Dett

      Performer: Robert Nathaniel Dett

    5. Magnolia: IV. Mammy

      Composer: Robert Nathaniel Dett

      Performer: Robert Nathaniel Dett

    6. Lakme (Sung in French), "Bell Song"

      Composer: Léo Delibes

      Performer: Florence Cole Talbert-McCleave

    7. The Last Rose of Summer

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Florence Cole Talbert-McCleave

    8. Vilanelle

      Composer: Eva Dell'Acqua

      Performer: Florence Cole Talbert-McCleave

    9. Il bacio

      Composer: Luigi Arditi

    10. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Florence Cole Talbert-McCleave

    11. Cradle Song

      Composer: Clarence Cameron White

      Performer: Clarence Cameron White, William King

    12. Lament

      Composer: Clarence Cameron White

      Performer: Clarence Cameron White, William King

    13. Make More Room (arr. RN Dett)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Hattie King Reavis

    14. There is a green hill far away

      Composer: Charles Gounod

      Performer: Hattie King Reavis

    15. Pagliacci, Act I: Vesti la giubba, "Arioso" (Sung in Italian)

      Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo

      Performer: Roland Hayes

    16. L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love)* (Sung in Italian)

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

    17. La forza del destino: Pace, pace mio dio

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Performer: Roland Hayes

    18. Twilight

      Composer: Katherine A Glen

      Performer: Roland Hayes

    19. Bye and Bye

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Roland Hayes

    20. Steal Away to Jesus

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Roland Hayes

    21. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Roland Hayes

    22. Rigoletto, Act I: Caro nome

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Performer: Antoinette Garnes

    23. La traviata: Act I: Ah! Fors' E Lui (Sung in Italian)

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Performer: Antoinette Garnes

    24. Pastoral Song, Hob.XXVIa:27

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Performer: Antoinette Garnes

    25. Les rameaux, "The Palms"

      Composer: Jean-Baptiste Faure

      Performer: Henry Thacker Burleigh


An amazing revival of a lost area of African American cultural history: classical music performances from the early part of the 20th century. These souvenirs of the earliest such commercial recording ventures showcase forgotten examples of a great culture's accomplishments. The engineering and re-mastering, along with the exquisitely researched and annotated accompanying booklet are the joint labor of love of the Parnassus triumvirate team of Leslie Gerber, Tim Brooks, and Steve Smolian, making BLACK SWANS in my list, at least one of the top albums of the year.