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Songs from Chicago / Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
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Songs from Chicago / Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

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Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Hampson, Huang
Format
CD
Label
Cedille
Released
Sep 14, 2018
Catalog #
CDR 180
UPC
735131918022

About

Thomas Hampson, America’s leading baritone and a champion of the art of classic song — poetry set to music — makes his Cedille Records debut with a program of songs by five composers of the early 20th century associated with the city of Chicago: Ernst Bacon, Florence Price, John Alden Carpenter, Margaret Bonds, and Louis Campbell-Tipton. All of them, Hampson says, “have distinguished themselves in history as great voices of the artistic American narrative.” Hailed as “an outstanding recitalist” by Grove Music Online, the much-honored international opera star, recording artist, and “ambassador of song” performs compositions based on poems by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet who became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Hampson, whose discography includes more than 170 albums, including Grammy and Grand Prix de Disque award winners, is accompanied on Songs from Chicago by collaborative pianist extraordinaire Kuang-Hao Huang, accompanist of choice for Chicago’s top singers and instrumentalists. The New York Philharmonic’s first Artist-in-Residence, Hampson also has been honored with a Concertgebouw Prize, Library of Congress Living Legends Award, and the Hugo-Wolf-Medal for outstanding achievements in the art of song interpretation, among many other awards.

REVIEW:

It goes without saying that Hampson's singing is gorgeous, and he is ably backed by Chicago pianist Kuang-Hao Huang. An excellent slice of little-known American art song.

– All Music Guide

Tracklist 25 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Lingering Last Drops 01:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Lingering Last Drops
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Ernst Bacon
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  2. 2 No. 2. World Take Good Notice 00:54
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. World Take Good Notice
    Duration
    00:54
    Composer
    Ernst Bacon
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  3. 3 No. 3. The Last Invocation 02:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. The Last Invocation
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Ernst Bacon
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  4. 4 No. 4. On the Frontiers 03:42
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. On the Frontiers
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Ernst Bacon
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  5. 5 No. 5. The Divine Ship 02:00
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. The Divine Ship
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Ernst Bacon
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  6. 6 No. 6. Darest Thou Now, O Soul 03:59
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Darest Thou Now, O Soul
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Ernst Bacon
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  7. 7 No. 7. Grand Is the Seen 02:30
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Grand Is the Seen
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    Ernst Bacon
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  8. 8 Songs to the Dark Virgin 01:55
    Track
    8
    Title
    Songs to the Dark Virgin
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  9. 9 My Dream 02:02
    Track
    9
    Title
    My Dream
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  10. 10 No. 1. Shake your brown feet, honey 02:03
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 1. Shake your brown feet, honey
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  11. 11 No. 3. The Cryin' Blues 02:19
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 3. The Cryin' Blues
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  12. 12 No. 2. Jazz-Boyz 01:11
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 2. Jazz-Boyz
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  13. 13 No. 1. Minstrel Man 01:38
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 1. Minstrel Man
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Margaret Allison Bonds
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  14. 14 No. 2. Dream Variation 01:41
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 2. Dream Variation
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Margaret Allison Bonds
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  15. 15 No. 3. I, Too 01:39
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 3. I, Too
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Margaret Allison Bonds
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  16. 16 The Negro Speaks of Rivers 03:51
    Track
    16
    Title
    The Negro Speaks of Rivers
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Margaret Allison Bonds
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  17. 17 2 Songs, Op. 33: No. 1. Elegy 02:42
    Track
    17
    Title
    2 Songs, Op. 33: No. 1. Elegy
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Louis Campbell-Tipton
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  18. 18 Credo 00:59
    Track
    18
    Title
    Credo
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  19. 19 When I bring to You Colour'd Toys 02:21
    Track
    19
    Title
    When I bring to You Colour'd Toys
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  20. 20 On the Day When Death Will Knock at Thy Door 03:00
    Track
    20
    Title
    On the Day When Death Will Knock at Thy Door
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  21. 21 The Sleep that Flits on Baby's Eyes 02:25
    Track
    21
    Title
    The Sleep that Flits on Baby's Eyes
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  22. 22 I am Like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn 04:25
    Track
    22
    Title
    I am Like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  23. 23 On the Seashore of Endless Worlds Children Meet 05:28
    Track
    23
    Title
    On the Seashore of Endless Worlds Children Meet
    Duration
    05:28
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  24. 24 Light, My Light 02:18
    Track
    24
    Title
    Light, My Light
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang
  25. 25 Epilogue 00:24
    Track
    25
    Title
    Epilogue
    Duration
    00:24
    Composer
    John Alden Carpenter
    Performer
    Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang