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Paul Robeson - Songs of Free Men / A Paul Robeson Recital (1997)

Posted By: pgf000

Date: 11 Nov 2010 18:30:58

There was nothing like the Robeson sound, ever. To describe his deep, rich, perfectly equalized instrument is futile. Go instead to "Balm in Gilead," the opening track, and see if you can listen to the last pianissimo phrase without falling to pieces. Robeson was at his best when the music was slow and the words contained spiritual or social messages. Faster, lighter fare like Kern's "I Still Suits Me" or Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So" find the serious-minded singer out of his element, lacking irony and swing. "Old Man River," though, gets a simple, dignified treatment. It's Songs of Free Men, though, that will just keep Robeson's artistry rolling along, especially in Sony's astonishing transfers.

On this CD:

Balm in Gilead
Composed by Joe Utterback
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Chassidic Chant
Composed by Lehman Engel
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Tikhiy Don, opera From Border to Border
Composed by Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Tikhiy Don, opera Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
Composed by Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Elijah (Elias), oratorio, Op. 70 The Lord God of Abraham
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Purest Kind of a Guy ("Joe's Birthday Song"), for voice & piano
Composed by Marc Blitzstein
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Joe Hill
Composed by Earl Hawley Robinson
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

The Peat-Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten - Song from a German concentration camp)
Composed by Anonymous
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

The Four Insurgent Generals (Spanish Loyalist Song)
Composed by Anonymous
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Native Land
Composed by Isaak Iosifovich Dunayevsky
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Polyushko Polye (Song of the Plains; Meadowlands; "O Field, My Fields")
Composed by Lev Konstantinovich Knipper
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Cradle Song
Composed by Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Within four walls (V chetïryokh stenakh), song for voice & piano (Sunless No. 1)
Composed by Modest Mussorgsky
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

By an' by
Composed by Harry T. (Henry) Burleigh
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Composed by Stephen Foster
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

John Henry, folk song
Composed by Anonymous
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Water Boy
Composed by Avery Robinson
with Paul Robeson, Lawrence Brown

Ma Curly-headed Baby (Babby) for voice & piano
Composed by George H. Clutsam
Performed by Columbia Concert Orchestra
with Paul Robeson
Conducted by Emanuel Balaban

Mah Lindy Lou
Composed by Lily Theresa Strickland
Performed by Columbia Concert Orchestra
with Paul Robeson
Conducted by Emanuel Balaban

Wagon Wheels
Composed by Peter DeRose
Performed by Columbia Concert Orchestra
with Paul Robeson
Conducted by Emanuel Balaban

The House I Live In
Composed by Earl Hawley Robinson
Performed by Columbia Concert Orchestra
with Paul Robeson
Conducted by Emanuel Balaban

I Still Suits Me, song (from 1935 film "Showboat")
Composed by Jerome Kern
Performed by Columbia Concert Orchestra
with Paul Robeson
Conducted by Emanuel Balaban

Sylvia for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Composed by Oley Speaks
Performed by Columbia Concert Orchestra
with Paul Robeson
Conducted by Emanuel Balaban

Ol' Man River, song (from "Showboat")
Composed by Jerome Kern
Performed by Columbia Concert Orchestra
with Paul Robeson
Conducted by Emanuel Balaban

Porgy and Bess, opera It Ain't Necessarily So
Composed by George Gershwin
Performed by Columbia Concert Orchestra
with Paul Robeson
Conducted by Emanuel Balaban

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