VAIMusic.com: Marian Anderson, Contralto, Sings With Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra in Radio Broadcasts of 1944-1951, on VAI CD (72 Min., Mono)

Marian Anderson: Rare Live Broadcast Performances; 

VAI 1275 (2013) (72 min., Mono)

VAI Music

Previously unpublished radio performances by one of the greatest vocal artists of the twentieth century. This collection presents Anderson in a wide range of repertoire, including songs and arias by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Brahms, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and Sibelius, as well as spirituals. Booklet includes notes by Anderson biographer Allan Keiler.

[2013, Mono, 72 minutes]

Program:

J.S. Bach: My Heart Ever Faithful, from Cantata BWV 68 (with Lucien Schmidt, cello obbligato)

J.S. Bach: Komm, süsser Tod

J.S. Bach: Prepare Thyself, Zion, from Christmas Oratorio

Handel: Ombra mai fu (aria of Serse) from Serse

Handel: Per rapir quel tesoro... Un cenno leggiadretto (aria of Atalanta) from Serse

Handel: Te Deum (date unknown)

Handel: Oh, what pleasure (“Vanne, segui’l mio desio”) from Floridante (with piano)

Bononcini: The Trumpet is calling (“Un’ombra di pace”) from Calfurnia (with piano)

Mozart: Alleluia from Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165

Bellini: Odiò la pastorella

Verdi: O don fatale, from Don Carlo

Saint-Saëns: Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix, from Samson et Dalila

Schubert: Serenade

Schubert: Die Allmacht

Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe

Fauré: Après un rêve

Franck: Air de l’Archange, from Rédemption

Greetings to Jan Sibelius on his 86th birthday

Sibelius: Solitude, from Belshazzar’s Feast (arranged by Sibelius for Anderson)

arr. Burleigh: Deep River

arr. Burleigh: My Way’s Cloudy

arr. Burleigh: Hard Trials

Marian Anderson, contralto

Radio broadcasts, 1944-1951

All selections with Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra / Donald Voorhees, conductor, unless otherwise noted

[Henry "Harry" T. Burleigh  (1866-1949) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a Works List and a Bibliography by Dr. Dominique-René de Lerma, www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com]