Various Artists: Negro Spirituals 1909-1948/La Tradition de Concert – COMPACT DISCS

Title: Negro Spirituals 1909-1948/La Tradition de Concert
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Fremeaux & Assoc. FR
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3448960216821
Genre: Gospel
Release Date: 2003-01-01
Number of Discs: 1

(2-CD set) With outstanding renditions from talented soloists and vocal ensembles, using refined arrangements, negro spiritual – of popular folk origin – is regarded today as the classical art song-form of black America.

Tracks:
1.1 Deep River – Marian Anderson
1.2 My Lord, What a Morning – Marian Anderson
1.3 Lord, I Can’t Stay Away/Heav’n, Heav’n – Marian Anderson
1.4 Crucifixion – Marian Anderson
1.5 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – Jules Bledsoe
1.6 I Stood on de Ribber Ob Jerdon
1.7 Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
1.8 Go Down Moses – Roland Hayes
1.9 Lit’l Boy (Christ in the Temple)
1.10 ‘Roun’ ‘Bout de Mountain – Roland Hayes
1.11 Hear de Lambs a Cryin’/Plenty Good Room
1.12 Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen – Dorothy Maynor
1.13 Steal Away to Jesus – Dorothy Maynor
1.14 Go Down, Moses/Deep River – John Payne
1.15 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Paul Robeson
1.16 Witness – Paul Robeson
1.17 Were You There? – Paul Robeson
1.18 De Ole Ark’s A-Movering/Ezekiel Saw de Wheel – Paul Robeson
2.1 Pickin’ on the Harp Wid de Golden Strings – Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers
2.2 There Is a Balm in Gilead
2.3 Little David
2.4 Blow, Gabriel, Blow – Fisk University Jubilee Singers
2.5 I’ve Heard of a City Called Heaven – Hall Negro Quartette
2.6 De Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried – Morris Brown Quartet
2.7 Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
2.8 Hallelujah – the Rust College Quintet
2.9 Let the Church Roll on – Southern University Quartet
2.10 Live A-Humble – Tuskegee Institute Singers
2.11 My Way’s Cloudy/I’m A-Rolling – Tuskegee Institute Singers
2.12 Heaven Song – Tuskegee Institute Singers
2.13 Mary Don’t You Weep
2.14 I’m So Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always
2.15 Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho – Dixie Jubilee Singers
2.16 Send One Angel Down – Dixie Jubilee Singers
2.17 Good News/Standin’ in the Need of Prayer/Religion Is a Fortune
2.18 Old Ship of Zion – the Hall Johnson Choir, Kenneth Spencer