180g High Quality Pressing!
Re-mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering!
A singer and actor, Paul Robeson was also a football player at Rutgers College. His involvement in politics led to his being blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
Robeson had an international music career, singing with a distinctive and powerful deep bass voice. For this concert recording, he is accompanied by pianist Alan Booth.
"This is a classic album, offering a measured, sometimes repressed emotional performance that is all the more powerful because of that. It is well mastered too while providing the only time that Robeson appears in stereo and recorded with more modern equipment." - Hi-Fi World, June 2016
"The singing legend is in excellent voice throughout, his rich bass-baritone reveling in performances of a repertory that encompassed Bach, Mussorgsky, Schubert, Dvorák, Beethoven, traditional gospel, Russian and Chinese folk songs, "Old Man River" from Show Boat, and monologues from Shakespeare and the opera Boris Godunov. With a piano accompaniment by Alan Booth, Robeson ranged across a huge part of his own performing history. The 60-year-old singer, despite the decade of artificially imposed inactivity, still had much of his vocal power intact and all his dramatic instincts, and makes every moment count in his performance, investing immense power in every note and nuance." - Bruce Eder, allmusic.com
Features:
180g High Quality Pressing
Re-mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Musicians:
Paul Robeson, vocals
Alan Booth, piano
Selections:
Side A:
1. Every Time I Feel the Spirit
2. Balm In Gilead
3. Volga Boat Song
4. Monologue From Othello (Shakespeare)
5. O Thou Silent Night (Alexadnrov)
6. Chinese Children's Song
7. My Curly Headed Baby (G.H. Clutsam)
8. Old Man River
9. Going Home (Dvorak, arr. Fisher)
Side B:
1. Monologue from Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky)
2. The Orphan (Mussorgsky)
3. Christ lag in Todesbanden (J.S. Bach)
4. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
5. Lullaby (Franz Schubert)
6. O No John
7. Joe Hill
8. Jacob's Ladder
Re-mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering!
A singer and actor, Paul Robeson was also a football player at Rutgers College. His involvement in politics led to his being blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
Robeson had an international music career, singing with a distinctive and powerful deep bass voice. For this concert recording, he is accompanied by pianist Alan Booth.
"This is a classic album, offering a measured, sometimes repressed emotional performance that is all the more powerful because of that. It is well mastered too while providing the only time that Robeson appears in stereo and recorded with more modern equipment." - Hi-Fi World, June 2016
"The singing legend is in excellent voice throughout, his rich bass-baritone reveling in performances of a repertory that encompassed Bach, Mussorgsky, Schubert, Dvorák, Beethoven, traditional gospel, Russian and Chinese folk songs, "Old Man River" from Show Boat, and monologues from Shakespeare and the opera Boris Godunov. With a piano accompaniment by Alan Booth, Robeson ranged across a huge part of his own performing history. The 60-year-old singer, despite the decade of artificially imposed inactivity, still had much of his vocal power intact and all his dramatic instincts, and makes every moment count in his performance, investing immense power in every note and nuance." - Bruce Eder, allmusic.com
Features:
180g High Quality Pressing
Re-mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Musicians:
Paul Robeson, vocals
Alan Booth, piano
Selections:
Side A:
1. Every Time I Feel the Spirit
2. Balm In Gilead
3. Volga Boat Song
4. Monologue From Othello (Shakespeare)
5. O Thou Silent Night (Alexadnrov)
6. Chinese Children's Song
7. My Curly Headed Baby (G.H. Clutsam)
8. Old Man River
9. Going Home (Dvorak, arr. Fisher)
Side B:
1. Monologue from Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky)
2. The Orphan (Mussorgsky)
3. Christ lag in Todesbanden (J.S. Bach)
4. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
5. Lullaby (Franz Schubert)
6. O No John
7. Joe Hill
8. Jacob's Ladder
