Format:
Audio disc
Title:
Songs of free men
Other title(s):
Paul Robeson recital
Copyright:
New York, NY : Manufactured by Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Manufacture:
New York, NY : Manufactured by Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Publication:
[New York, New York] : Sony Classical, [1997]
Physical Description:
1 audio disc (69 min., 46 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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General Note:
Songs, spirituals, popular songs and excerpts from operas and oratorios, in part arrangements, for bass-baritone with piano or orchestra accompaniment.
Title from disc label.
The 18th-25th works arranged by Normand Lockwood.
The 1st-2nd and 5th works previously unreleased.
Program and biographical notes by Paul Robeson, Jr. and Albert Innaurato in English with French and German translations (37 pages : illustrations) inserted in container.
Contents:
Balm in Gilead / spiritual ; arr. Harry T. Burleigh (2:26) -- Chassidic chant / Lehman Engel (2:40) -- Quiet flows the Don: From border to border (2:46) ; Oh, how proud our quiet Don (3:18) / Ivan Dzerzhinsky -- Elijah : op. 70: The Lord God of Abraham / Felix Mendelssohn (3:07) -- No for an answer. The purest kind of guy : (Joe's birthday song) / Marc Blitzstein (3:20) -- Joe Hill / Earl Robinson (2:40) -- The peat-bog soldiers : (Moorsoldaten : song from a German concentration camp) / anonymous ; arr. Hanns Eisler (2:25) -- The four insurgent generals : (Spanish loyalist song) / anonymous (2:25) -- Native land / Isaac Donayevsky (2:17) -- Song of the plains : (Red Army song) / anonymous ; arr. Lev Knipper (3:04) -- Cradle song / Alexander Gretchaninoff (3:49) -- Within four walls / Modest Mussorgsky (3:30) -- Folk songs. By an' by / arr. Harry T. Burleigh (2:26) ; Sometimes I feel like a motherless child / arr. Lawrence Brown (2:27) ; John Henry / arr. Hall Johnson (2:27) -- Water boy / Avery Robinson (2:30) -- My curly headed baby / George H. Clutsam (2:44) -- Mah Lindy Lou / Lily Strickland (3:09) -- Wagon wheels / Peter DeRose (2:42) -- The house I live in / Earl Robinson (3:08) -- Showboat. I still suits me / Oscar Hammerstein II ; Jerome Kern (2:32) -- Sylvia / Oley Speaks (2:06) -- Showboat. Ol' man river / Oscar Hammerstein II ; Jerome Kern (3:09) -- Porgy and Bess. It ain't necessarily so / George Gershwin (2:39).
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Contains (work): Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
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There is a balm in Gilead.
Peat-bog soldiers.
Moorsoldaten.
Four insurgent generals.
Song of the plains.
By an' by.
By and by.
John Henry.