PAUL ROBESON - VOICE OF FREEDOM [14CD]

Sony Music

£107.01

Format: 14 x CD
Catalogue No.: 19439977452
Barcode: 0194399774526
Release Date: 30 Aug 2024
Genre: Classical

Sony Classical is proud to present Paul Robeson in a x14-CD edition, the first ever release of his complete Columbia, Victor, and HMV recordings from 1925 to 1947. Paul Robeson—African-American bass-baritone, stage and film actor, All-American football player, lawyer, and advocate for civil rights—was outspoken against racism, colonialism, and social injustice. Today, his remarkable voice and unrivaled stage presence live on in sound recordings and films. This 14-CD edition is the first ever release of his complete Columbia, Victor, and HMV recordings from 1925 to 1947. All of his American recordings have been meticulously restored from the original master discs and tapes, and 25 studio recordings—as well as his complete historic New York and London recitals from 1958—are here presented for the first time on CD. The richly illustrated 160-page book, with essays by Shana L. Redmond and Susan Robeson, pays tribute to a cultural icon of the 20th century.

Disc: 1
1 Were You There? (When They Crucified my Lord)
2 Steal Away
3 Water Boy
4 Joshua fit the Battle ob Jericho
5 Bye and Bye (I'm Goin' to Lay Down Dis Heavy Load)
6 Water Boy
7 Li'l Gal
8 I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound
9 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
10 On Ma Journey
11 Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen
12 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
13 Down de Lover's Lane
14 Hear, de Lam's a-Cryin'
15 Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
16 Deep River
17 I'm Goin' to Tell God All O' My Troubles
18 I Got a Home in-a dat Rock
19 Witness
20 Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
21 Ballad for Americans
22 I Got a Home in-a dat Rock
23 Witness
Disco: 2
1 Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
2 Since You Went Away "Seems Lak To Me"
3 Down De Lover's Lane
4 Scandalize My Name
5 Sinner Please Doan' Let dis Harves' Pass
6 Weepin' Mary
7 I Want to Be Ready
8 My Lord What a Mornin'
9 De Li'l Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
10 Git on Board Li'l Children
11 Dere's No Hidin' Place
12 Plantation Song s (Part 1): So Early in the Morning - Carry Me Back to Old Virginia - Old Folks at Home - Goodnight Ladies
13 Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie - Poor Old Joe - Oh, Susanna - My Old Kentucky Home
14 Oh! Rock Me Julie
15 Oh, Didn't It Rain
16 Mammy - Carrol Gibbons Chorus
17 Roll Away, Clouds (From "Virginia") - Gibbons, Carroll / Carrol Gibbons Chorus
18 Sonny Boy (From the 1928 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "The Singing Fool")
19 Little Pal (From "Say It with Songs")
20 The Lonesome Road
21 Just Keepin' On
22 Might y Lak' a Rose
23 Mammy is Gone
Disco: 3
1 Hail De Crown
2 Exhortation
3 I Stood on the Ribber Jordan - Peter Go Ring dem Bells
4 Go Down Moses
5 High Water - Ray Noble Orchestra
6 Old Folks at Home, "Swanee River" - Ray Noble Orchestra
7 Poor Old Joe - Ray Noble Orchestra
8 My Old Kentucky Home
9 Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River" - Ray Noble Orchestra
10 River Stay 'way from My Door - Ray Noble Orchestra
11 Rockin' Chair - Ray Noble Orchestra
12 Medley of Spirituals
13 My Heart is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
14 The Folks I Used to Know
15 Yes Lord,Oh Lord (Variation of "Mary Had a Baby") - Clapham, Ruthland
16 Lil' Gal - Clapham, Ruthland
17 Bear De Burden - All God's Chillun Got Wing
18 That's Why Darkies Were Born (From "George White's Scandals of 1931")
19 When It's Sleepy Time Down South (From the 1931 William A. Wellman's Movie "Safe in Hell")
20 Seekin'
Disco: 4
1 Nearer, My God, to Thee
2 There is a Green Hill Far Away
3 Mah Lindy Lou
4 Ma Curly-Headed Babby
5 Pilgrim's Song
6 Roll the Old Chariot Along
7 Since You Went Away
8 Wid De Moon Moon Moon
9 Got the South in My Soul
10 Hush- a-bye Lullaby, "Rock-a-bye Baby"
11 Round the Bend of the Road
12 Take Me Away from the River, "Song from the Viper"
13 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
14 On Ma Journey
15 Bye and Bye - I 'm Goin' to Lay Down dis Heavy Load
16 Were You There?
17 Swing Along!
18 Piccaninny Shoes
19 In a Narrow Street
20 Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
21 Lazy Bones
22 Blue Prelude
23 Medley I, Pt. 1: Roll De Ole Chariot - Mary Had a Baby - Swing Low - Heav'n, Heav'n
24 Medley I, Pt. 2: Carry me Back - Mighty Lak' a Rose - Round the Bend of the Road - River Stay 'Way From my Door - O'l Man River
Disco: 5
1 Fat Li'l Feller wid His Mammy's Eyes
2 Short'nin' Bread
3 Snowball
4 Water Boy
5 Doan' You Cry Ma Honey
6 Steal Away
7 Scarecrow
8 Wagon Wheels
9 So Shy
10 Piccaninny Slumber Song
11 St. Louis Blues - Noble, Ray / Ray Noble Orchestra
12 Mammy's Little Kinky -Headed Boy
13 Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
14 I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin' - Noble, Ray / Ray Noble Orchestra
15 Bandanna Ballads, Op. 22: IV. The Banjo Song - Noble, Ray / Ray Noble Orchestra
16 Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green Pastures - Old Folks at Home
17 Love Song (From "Sanders of the River")
18 Congo Lullaby (From "Sanders of the River")
19 Canoe Song (From "Sanders of the River")
20 Killing Song (From "Sanders of the River")
21 Shenandoah
22 Jes' Mah Song
23 De Ole Ark's A-Movering
24 Ezekiel Saw De Wheel - Brown, Lawrence
25 Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Disco: 6
1 Honey,Dat's All - Clifford Greenwood Orchestra
2 Gloomy Sunday "Hungarian Suicide Song" - Clifford Greenwood Orchestra
3 Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
4 Ah Still Suits Me (From "Show Boat") - Welch, Elisabeth
5 Sleepy River ( From "Song of Freedom")
6 Lonely Road (From "Song of Freedom")
7 Song of Freedom (From "Song of Freedom")
8 The Black Emperor (From "Song of Freedom")
9 Mam'selle Marie
10 Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere
11 Oh! No John!
12 Passing By: "There is a Lady Sweet and Kind"
13 Hammer Song - Brown, Lawrence
14 Li'l David - Brown, Lawrence
15 My Way (From "Jericho")
16 Golden River (From "Jericho")
17 The Wagon Song "Ho! Ho!" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
18 The Mountain Song "Climbing up" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
19 Lazin' (From "Big Fella") - Ansell, Eric / Eric Ansell Orchestra
20 I Don't Know What's Wrong (From "Big Fella") - Ansell, Eric / Eric Ansell Orchestra
21 Roll up Sailorman (From "Big Fella") - Ansell, Eric / Eric Ansell Orchestra
22 You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things (From "Big Fella") - Ansell, Eric / Eric Ansell Orchestra
23 Deep Desert (From "Jericho")
24 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
25 Minstrel Man
26 The Wanderer
Disco: 7
1 Dere's a Man Goin' Round' Takin' Names
2 No More Auction Block
3 Work All de Summer
4 Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
5 Silent Night, Holy Night
6 All Through the Night
7 Solitude
8 Mood Indigo
9 Summertime (From "Porgy and Bess")
10 It Take a Long Pull to Get There (From "Porgy and Bess")
11 It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy and Bess")
12 A Woman Is a Sometime Thing (From "Porgy and Bess")
13 7 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose: 3. Just A-Wearyin' For You
14 At Dawning
15 Song of the Volga Boatmen
16 An Eriskay Love-Lilt
17 Encantadora Maria
18 Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot
19 Every Time I Feel de Spirit
20 Lay Down Late
21 Forgotten in E-Flat Minor
22 David of the White Rock
23 Trees - Munro, Ronnie / Ronnie Munro Orchestra
24 Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4
25 Loch Lomond
26 Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes - Munro, Ronnie / Ronnie Munro Orchestra
Disco: 8
1 Down de Lovers' Lane
2 Berceuse, Op. 1, No 5
3 O Thou Silent Night
4 The Little Black Boy (From "Songs of Innocence")
5 Dear Old Southland
6 Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time)
7 The Blind Plowman
8 The Cobbler's Song (From "Chu Chin Chow - A Musical Tale of the East )
9 Oh,Could I But Express in Song - Goehr, Walter / Walter Goehr Orchestra
10 Love At My Heart
11 Nothin'
12 The Rosary: "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart"
13 A Perfect Day
14 Absent: "Sometimes, between long shadows on the grass"
15 Black Eyes, Russian Gipsy Song
16 Oh Promise Me (From "Robin Hood")
17 Plaisir d'amour
18 Sylvia
19 She is Far from the Land (Irish Folk Song)
20 Thora
21 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal - Brown, Lawrence
22 Sea Fever: "I must go down to the seas again" (Lento) - Brown, Lawrence
23 Ebenezer "Ton-y Botel" - Brown, Lawrence
24 Land of My Fathers - Brown, Lawrence
25 Deep River
26 Lord God of Abraham - Baal Chorus (From "Elijah")
Disc: 9
1 Quiet Flows the Don: From Border to Border
2 Quiet Flows the Don: Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
3 No for an Answer: The Purest Kind of Guy (Joe's Birhday Song)
4 Joe Hill
5 The Peat-Bog Soldiers
6 The Four Insurgent Generals - Spanish Folk Song
7 Song of the Plains "Meadowland"
8 Native Land "Shiroka strange moya rodnaya"
9 Balm in Gilead
10 Chassidic Chant
11 Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel (From "Elijah , Op. 70")
12 Berceuse, Op. 1, No 5
13 Sunless: 1. Within Four Walls
14 Song of the Plains "Meadowland"
15 Ol' Man River (From the Film "Show Boat")
16 Ah Still Suits Me (From the Film "Show Boat")
17 Ma Curly-Headed Babby
18 Mah Lindy Lou
19 The House I Live in
20 Wagon Wheels
21 Sylvia
22 It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy and Bess")
23 King Joe "Joe Louis Blues"
24 Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
Disco: 10
1 Go Down, Moses
2 Balm in Gilead
3 Bye and Bye
4 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
5 John Henry
6 Water Boy
7 Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen
8 Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho
9 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
10 Every Time I Feel The Spirit
11 I Got A Home In Dat Rock
12 Gimme Your Han'
13 No More Auction Block
14 Great Gettin' Up Morning
15 Hear Da Lam's A Cryin'
16 Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot
17 I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound
18 Ezekial Saw De Wheel
19 Poor Wayfarin' Stranger
20 Hammer Song
21 Dere's a Man Goin' Round
22 I Know de Lord
23 Git on Board, Li'l Children
24 L'il David
Disco :11
1 Over the Mountain - Love will find Out the Way
2 Balm in Gilead
3 Freedom - Moravian Hussite Hymn
4 A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, BWV 80
5 Ode to Joy "Choral Section of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9"
6 Oh No, John!
7 An Eriskay Love Lilt
8 In a Place Far, Far Away "Chinese Folk Song"
9 Comments on Languages and Music of Many Lands
10 Borris Godunov, Act IV, Scene 2: "Gospodi! Gospodi! Vozzri, molyu"
11 Othello, the Moor of Venice: "Soft you, a word or two before you go"
12 Introduction of Lawrence Brown
13 Didn't my Lord Deliver Daniel?
14 Swing Low Sweet Chariot
15 No More Auction Block
16 Water Boy
17 The Four Insurgent Generals
18 We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
19 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
20 How Does the Keyser Live
21 Mexican Lullaby
22 Closing Thanks
23 The Ballad of Joe Hill
24 House I Live In
Disco: 12
1 Balm in Gilead
2 L'amour de moi
3 Symphony No. 9: Ode to Joy
4 The Orphan Girl
5 Chassidic Chant
6 Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
7 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
8 Every Time I Feel the Spirit
9 I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound
10 Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
11 No More Auction Block
12 Scandalize My Name
13 Git on Board, Li'l Children
14 How does the Czar Live
15 An Eriskay Love Lilt
16 An Eriskay Love Lilt - Encore
17 Song of the Volga Boatman
18 Song of the Volga Boatman - Encore
19 Water Boy
20 Oh No John
21 Oh Thou Silent Autumn Night
22 The Ballad of Joe Hill
23 Ol' Man River
24 Let the Rail Splitter Awake - Pablo Neruda
Disc: 13
1 Othello, Act I, Scene 1: Venice. A Street "Tush! never tell me"
2 Othello, Act I, Scene 2: "Though in the trade of war I have slain men" - Hagen, Uta
3 Othello, Act I, Scene 3:"Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor" - Scourby, Alexander / Hagen, Uta
4 Othello, Act II, Scene 1: "The Moor! I know his trumpet!"
5 Othello, Act II, Scene 3: "Welome Iago - we must to the watch"
6 Othello, Act III, Scene 3: "Madam I'll take my leave"
Disc: 14
1 Othello, Act III, Scene 4: " Emilia where should I lose that hankerchief?"
2 Othello, Act IV, Scene 1: "Will you think so?"
3 Othello, Act IV, Scene 2: "You have seen nothing then"
4 Othello, Act IV, Scene 3: "How goes it now"
5 Othello, Act V, Scene 2: "It is the cause"