Description
This collection is the companion to ALC1256 ‘Very Best of /Ol’ Man River’ and focuses more on his ‘Songs of struggle’ and on Spirituals and Lullabies Paul Robeson once said: ‘The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.’
| [1] Summertime (Porgy and Bess) New Mayfair Orch / Greenwood 2:34 |
| [2] Carry me Back to Green Pastures (Pepper) Orch / Ray Noble 2:50 |
| [3] Were You There when they Crucified my Lord? (Trad. spritual) 2:42 |
| [4] By and By (Trad. spritual) 2:24 |
| [5] John Henry (Trad; arr.Johnson) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:27 |
| [6] Joe Hill (Robinson, Hayes) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:39 |
| [7] The Peat-Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten; arr.Eisler) Lawrence Brown 2:25 |
| [8] Kevin Barry (Anon. Irish) 2:09 |
| [9] Native Land (Donayevsky) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:19 |
| [10] The Four Insurgent Generals (Anon. Spanish Civil War) 2:23 |
| [11] Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don (Dzerzhinsky) Lawrence Brown 3:18 |
| [12] Killing Song (Sanders of the River) (Spoliansky, Wimperis) 2:19 |
| [13] Congo Lullaby (Sanders of the River) (Spoliansky, Wimperis) 3:03 |
| [14] At Dawning (Cadman) 2:20 |
| [15] Didn’t my Lord Deliver Daniel ? (Trad. spiritual) 1:27 |
| [16] Steal Away to Jesus (Trad. spiritual) 2:57 |
| [17] St.Louis Blues (Handy) Orchestra / Ray Noble 3:26 |
| [18] Mah Lindy Lou (Strickland) Orchestra / Ray Noble 3:11 |
| [19] Cradle Song (Gretchaninov) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:07 |
| [20] Passing By (Purcell:Herrick) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:19 |
| [21] Lazin’ (from Big Fella) Orchestra / Eric Ansell 2:44 |
| [22] Thora (Weatherley:Adams) Orchestra / Walter Goehr 3:23 |
| [23] Love At My Heart (Graves:arr.Wood) Orchestra / Walter Goehr 2:03 |
| [24] Encantadora Maria (Kilyeni) Orchestra / Ronnie Munro 2:38 |
| [25] Ebenezer (The Proud Valley) with Male Chorus 2:26 |
| [26] All Men are Brothers / Ode to Joy (Beethoven/Schiller) 2:39 |
| [27] Song of the Plains (Red Army Song) (arr.Knipper) Lawrence Brown 3:05 |
| [28] The Soviet Anthem (edited) with Chorus 2:06 |
| [29] Jerusalem (Blake) 2:21 |
