Swanson, Howard

Deep River: Music for Violin and Piano by Composers of African Descent / Merwin Siu, violin; Phoenix Park-Kim, piano

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2012-04-10

Works: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River, for piano (Negro Melodies), Op. 59/10; R. Nathaniel Dett: Cinnamon Grove, suite for piano; Howard Swanson: Nocturne for violin & piano; Hale Smith: Epicedial Vari...
Performers: Park-Kim, Phoenix; Siu, Merwin

This recording offers a program of music by black composers for piano and violin. Violinist Merwin Siu has appeared with the Toledo Symphony, the New...continue...
Recording information: Studio D, Summitville, IN (2006-2010)....continue...

Songs of America - Copland, Gershwin, Ellington, etc / Oral Moses, Rosalyn Floyd, Timothy Holley

1 CD / Albany Records / 2008-05-01

Works: Traditional: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning; Harry: I've Been in de Storm so Long, song; Hall Johnson: This River, for voice & piano; Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven, for voice & piano; Ain't G...
Performers: Floyd, Rosalyn; Holley, Timothy; Moses, Oral; Rosalyn Floyd; Timothy W. Holley

This recording is, in many respects, a unique and creatively conceived kaleidoscope of American culture presented through the expressions and influences of African Americans. Moses...continue...

American Classics - Dreamer -A Portrait of Langston Hughes

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-09-01

Works: Langston Hughes: My People (poem); The Weary Blues (poem); Negro (poem); Evil (poem); Sunday Morning Prophecy (poem); Madam and the Census Taker (poem); Sylvester's Dying Bed (poem); Still Here (poem...
Performers: Corley, Maria; Santos, Erik; Taylor, Darryl

Langston Hughes poetry lends itself so readily to musical setting that the composer Elite Siegmeister once declared him the "most musical poet of the twentieth...continue...

The Negro Speaks of Rivers /Odekhiren Amaize, David Korevaar

1 CD / MSR Classics / 2000-01-01

Works: Leslie Adams: Millay songs (5), for voice & piano; Margaret Bonds: Dream Portraits (3) for voice & piano; Charles Brown: The Barrier, for voice & piano; Cecil Cohen: Death of an old seaman, for voice...
Performers: Amaize, Odekhiren; Korevaar, David