Author:
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
Imprint:[New York] : Sony Classical, p1997.
Physical Description:1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Performer:Paul Robeson, bass-baritone ; Lawrence Brown, piano (1st-17th works) ; Columbia Concert Orchestra ; Emanuel Balaban, conductor (18th-25th works).
Note: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).
Note:Songs in various genres.
Note:The 18th-25th works arr. by Normand Lockwood.
Note:Originally released 1942-1948; the 1st-2nd and 5th works previously unreleased.
Note:Compact disc.
Note:Program and biographical notes by Paul Robeson, Jr. and Albert Innaurato, in English with French and German translations (37 p. : ill.) bound in container.
