Black Composers Series 1974-1978 on 10 CDs
Black Composers Series 1974-1978
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Saint-Georges: Symphonie Nr. 1 op. 11 Nr. 1; Sinfonia concertante G-Dur op. 13 für 2 Violinen & Orchester; Streichquartett Nr. 1 C-Dur op. 1 Nr. 1; Szene aus Ernestine
+Still: Afro-American Symphony; 2 Arias from Highway 1; Sahdji-Ballettmusik
+Coleridge-Taylor: Onaway! Awake, Beloved aus Hiawatha's Wedding Fest; Danse negre
+Kay: Markings
+Walker: Klavierkonzert; Posaunenkonzert; Lyric for Strings
+Cordero: Violinkonzert; 8 Miniaturen für kleines Orchester
+Nunes Garcia: Requiem
+Wilson: Akwan für Klavier, E-Piano, Amplified Strings, Orchester
+White: Violinkonzert
+Anderson: Essay für Orchester "Squares"
+Hakim: Visions of Ishwara
+Baker: Cellosonate
+Hailstork: Celebration
+Smith: Ritual and Incantations; Spirituals für Gesang & Orchester (Lift every voice and sing; Jesus lay your head in; Honor, Honor; He never said a mumballi; A change has got to come; Swing low; Gospel Train; Let us break bread together; Witness; The Revival; This little light of mine; Deep river)
- Artists:
- William Brown, Juilliard String Quartet, Denis Wick, Sanford Allen, Aaron Rosand, Janos Starker, Alain Planes, London Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Freeman
- Label:
- Sony
- UPC/EAN:
- 0190758621524
- Release date:
- 4.1.2019
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Leontyne Price war der erste schwarze Superstar der Klassik. Aber es gab und gibt natürlich nicht nur Interpreten mit dunkler Hautfarbe, sondern auch Komponisten. Von 1974 bis 1978 erschien bei Columbia Masterworks die Black-Composers-Schallplattenreihe, die jetzt erstmals gesammelt auf CD veröffentlicht wird. Es beginnt mit Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, der Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts einer der angesehensten Komponisten in Europa war. William Grant Still (1895–1978) hingegen schrieb die erste »Afro-American Symphony«. Es gab so individuelle Stimmen wie die von José White Lafitte (1836–1918) mit seinem eindringlichen Violinkonzert oder David Baker (1931–2016), hier mit seiner Cellosonate vertreten, gespielt von keinem Geringeren als Janos Starker. Auf 10 CDs finden sich hochindividuelle Kompositionen und Aufnahmen, die es verdienen (wieder-) entdeckt zu werden. Fast allen gemeinsam ist die musikalische Leitung durch den so engagiert, wie imaginativen Dirigenten Paul Freeman.
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In the 1970s, CBS Masterworks made a groundbreaking series of recordings featuring the music of black composers. The nine LPs released all featured the pioneering conductor Paul Freeman. Sony Classical is proud to reissue the complete Black Composer Series in a single original album collection with each CD remastered from the original analogue tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology. The composers featured span several centuries and come from many different backgrounds. The earliest is the unique Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799), a composer, violinist and swordsman born in Guadeloupe who spent most of his life in France. A whole album of his music includes the Symphony op. 11 / 1, the String Quartet op. 1 / 1 and the Symphonie Concertante op. 13. Another complete album is dedicated to the Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767–1830) and his extraordinary Requiem Mass for Queen Maria I. José Silvestre White (1835–1918), a Cuban virtuoso violinist-composer in the mould of Wieniawski, taught pupils including George Enescu, and his Violin Concerto is interpreted here by Aaron Rosand. The English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) enjoyed considerable success in his lifetime, most of all through his cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, an aria from which is included here, as is his orchestral Danse nègre. Coleridge-Taylor visited the USA several times, and was an inspiration for the young William Grant Still (1895–1978). Still’s Afro-American Symphony, the first by a black composer to be performed by a major orchestra, draws strongly on the musical language of the blues. His ballet score Sahdji and two arias from his opera Highway 1, U. S.A. are also included. Among the many other 20th-century composers featured are the Nigerian Fela Sowande (1905–1987), the Panamanian Roque Cordero (1917–2008), and the American Ulysses Simpson Kay (1917–1995). George Walker (b. 1922) has been called “one of the greatest composers of our time” by Fanfare, and three works by this Pulitzer winner are included: the Trombone and Piano Concertos as well as his Lyric for Strings. David Baker (1931–2016), the renowned jazz cellist and composer, was a pupil of Janos Starker, who plays his Cello Sonata. Hale Smith (1925–2009), another composer deeply involved with the world of jazz, is represented by his Ritual and Incantations. Other composers featured in this collection include Olly W. Wilson, T. J. Anderson, Talib-Rasul Hakim and Adolphus Hailstork. A bonus tenth album features Smith’s Symphonic Spirituals, arrangements of 12 spirituals for voice and orchestra, first released by Paul Freeman and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1979. Besides those already mentioned, the many superb performers in this collection include the London Symphony Orchestra on several albums, the Baltimore and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, and the Juilliard String Quartet. But it is the composers, many still little known today, who are the true stars of this milestone collection.
Disk 1 von 10 (CD)
Symphony No. 1 in G Major, Op. 11, No. 1 - Remastered
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1 Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph: I. Allegro
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2 Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph: II. Andante
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3 Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph: III. Allegro assai
String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1, No. 1 - Remastered
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4 Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph: I. Allegro
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5 Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph: II. Rondeau: Tempo di minuetto; Grazioso
Symphonie Concertante in G Major for Two Violins and Orchestra, Op. 13 - Remastered
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6 Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph: I. Allegro
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7 Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph: II. Rondeau
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8 Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph: Scena from 'Ernestine' - Remastered
Disk 2 von 10 (CD)
Afro-American Symphony - Remastered
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1 William Grant Still: I. Moderato assai
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2 William Grant Still: II. Adagio
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3 William Grant Still: III. Animato
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4 William Grant Still: IV. Lento con risolutione
Two Arias from Highway 1, U.S.A. - Remastered
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5 William Grant Still: What Does He Know of Dreams ?
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6 William Grant Still: You're Wonderful, Mary
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7 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Onaway! Awake, Beloved from 'Hiawatha's Wedding Fest' - Remastered
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8 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Danse Negre - Remastered
Disk 3 von 10 (CD)
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1 Ulysses Simpson Kay: Markings - Remastered
Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra - Remastered
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2 George Walker: I. Allegro
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3 George Walker: II. Grave
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4 George Walker: III. Allegro
Disk 4 von 10 (CD)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Remastered
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1 Roque Cordero: I. Largo - Allegro strepitoso - Allegro moderato
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2 Roque Cordero: II. Lento
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3 Roque Cordero: III. Allegro vigoroso
Eight Miniatures for Small Orchestra - Remastered
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4 Roque Cordero: I. Marcha Grotesca
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5 Roque Cordero: II. Meditacion
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6 Roque Cordero: III. Pasillo
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7 Roque Cordero: IV. Danzonete
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8 Roque Cordero: V. Nocturno
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9 Roque Cordero: VI. Mejorana
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10 Roque Cordero: VII. Plegaria
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11 Roque Cordero: VIII. Allegro Final
Disk 5 von 10 (CD)
Requiem Mass - Remastered
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1 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: I. Introitus: Requiem aeternam
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2 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: II. Kyrie eleison
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3 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: III. Gradual: Requiem aeternam
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4 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: IV. Sequence: Dies irae - Ingemisco - Inter oves
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5 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: V. Offertorio: Domine Jesu Christe
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6 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: VI. Sanctus - Beneditcus
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7 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: VII. Agnes Dei
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8 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia: VIII. Communio: Lux aeternam
Disk 6 von 10 (CD)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Remastered
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1 Jose White: I. Allegro
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2 Jose White: II. Adagio ma non troppo
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3 Jose White: III. Allegro moderato
Sonata for Cello and Piano - Remastered
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4 David Baker: I. Fast
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5 David Baker: II. Blues
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6 David Baker: III. Fast
Disk 7 von 10 (CD)
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1 William Grant Still: Sahdji (Ballet for Orchestra & Chorus) - Remastered
Music from African Suite for String Orchestra - Remastered
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2 Fela Sowande: I. Joyful Day
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3 Fela Sowande: II. Nostalgia
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4 Fela Sowande: III. Akinla
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5 George Walker: Lyric for Strings - Remastered
Disk 8 von 10 (CD)
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1 Olly Woodrow Wilson: Akwan for Piano, Electronic Piano, Amplified Strings, and Orchestra - Remastered
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2 Anderson, Thomas Jefferson, Jr.: Squares (An Essay for Orchestra) - Remastered
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3 Talib Rasul Hakim: Visions of Ishwara - Remastered
Disk 9 von 10 (CD)
Piano Concerto - Remastered
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1 George Walker: I. quarter note = 72
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2 George Walker: II. quarter note = 63
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3 George Walker: III. quarter note = 120
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4 Adolphus Hailstork: Celebration - Remastered
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5 Hale Smith: Ritual And Incantations - Remastered
Disk 10 von 10 (CD)
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1 John Rosamond Johnson: Lift Every Voice and Sing - Remastered
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2 The Traditional: Jesus Lay Your Head In - Remastered
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3 The Traditional: Honor Honor - Remastered
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4 The Traditional: He Never Said Mumballi - Remastered
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5 Sam Cooke: A Change Has Got to Come - Remastered
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6 The Traditional: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Remastered
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7 The Traditional: Gospel Train - Remastered
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8 The Traditional: Let Us Break Bread Together - Remastered
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9 The Traditional: Witness - Remastered
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10 Morton Gould: The Revival - Remastered
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11 Harry Dixon Loes: This Little Light of Mine - Remastered
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12 The Traditional: Deep River - Remastered
