Songs from Chicago / Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

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Label
Cedille
Release Date
September 14, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Hampson, Huang
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 14, 2018
    • UPC
      735131918022
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CDR 180
    • LABEL
      Cedille
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Lingering Last Drops

      Composer: Ernst Bacon

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    2. No. 2. World Take Good Notice

      Composer: Ernst Bacon

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    3. No. 3. The Last Invocation

      Composer: Ernst Bacon

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    4. No. 4. On the Frontiers

      Composer: Ernst Bacon

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    5. No. 5. The Divine Ship

      Composer: Ernst Bacon

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    6. No. 6. Darest Thou Now, O Soul

      Composer: Ernst Bacon

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    7. No. 7. Grand Is the Seen

      Composer: Ernst Bacon

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    8. Songs to the Dark Virgin

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    9. My Dream

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    10. No. 1. Shake your brown feet, honey

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    11. No. 3. The Cryin' Blues

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    12. No. 2. Jazz-Boyz

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    13. No. 1. Minstrel Man

      Composer: Margaret Allison Bonds

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    14. No. 2. Dream Variation

      Composer: Margaret Allison Bonds

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    15. No. 3. I, Too

      Composer: Margaret Allison Bonds

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    16. The Negro Speaks of Rivers

      Composer: Margaret Allison Bonds

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    17. 2 Songs, Op. 33: No. 1. Elegy

      Composer: Louis Campbell-Tipton

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    18. Credo

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    19. When I bring to You Colour'd Toys

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    20. On the Day When Death Will Knock at Thy Door

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    21. The Sleep that Flits on Baby's Eyes

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    22. I am Like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    23. On the Seashore of Endless Worlds Children Meet

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    24. Light, My Light

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang

    25. Epilogue

      Composer: John Alden Carpenter

      Performer: Thomas Hampson, Kuang-Hao Huang


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