Marian Anderson - Softly Awakes My Heart
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Track List: Softly Awakes My Heart
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- Samson And Delilah, Act II: Softly Awakes My Heart
- Don Carlos, Act 4: Oh Fatal Gift
- I Got A Robe! - Marian Anderson/Lawrence Brown
- Deep River - Marian Anderson/Lawrence Brown
- Trampin' - Marian Anderson/Lawrence Brown
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- Ev'ry Time I Feel De Spirit - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- Messiah: He Was Despised - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- St. Matthew Passion: Erbarme Dich - Marian Anderson/Joseph Fuchs
- The Trout, D550 - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- Ave Maria, Op.52 No.6 - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- The Nut Tree, Op.25 No.3 - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- Holly Lullaby, Op.91 No.2 - Marian Anderson/Franz Rupp/William Primrose
- In The Silence Of The Secret Night, Op.4 No.3 - Marian Anderson/Franz Rupp/William Primrose
- The Pleasure Of Love - Marian Anderson/Franz Rupp/William Primrose
- The Maiden's Tryst, Op.37 No.5 - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- I Know De Lord's Laid His Hand On Me - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- Were You There? - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- Oh! What A Beautiful City! - Marian Anderson/Franz Rupp
- Go Down, Moses - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- Dere's No Hiding Place Down Dere - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
- My Old Kentucky Home - Marian Anderson/Kosti Vehanen
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Album Details: Softly Awakes My Heart
- Release Date:
- 06/22/1999
- Label:
- Asv Living Era
- UPC:
- 743625526226
Pro Reviews: Softly Awakes My Heart
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Living Era's tribute to Marian Anderson is composed of recordings she made between August 1928 and June 1946. This portrait album is divided into various chapters' representing different aspects of the European classical repertoire along with two distinct sections made up of what were then referred to as traditional Negro Spirituals. Marian Anderson's life and work occurred within a specific social context; because of her African ancestry she was refused admission to the Philadelphia Academy in 1923. In 1925 racism temporarily stymied her career even after she won a competition involving 300 other contestants in New York. Beginning in 1927 Marian Anderson toured through Russia, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Spain and England. She performed at New York's Town Hall in 1935 and at Carnegie Hall in 1936; after receiving an honorary degree from Harvard University in 1938, Marian Anderson was invited to the White House to sing for president Franklin D. and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Although internationally recognized as a phenomenally gifted artist and honored at home as a national treasure, Marian Anderson's African ancestry caused consternation among the bigoted elite in the United States of America. In 1939, certain members of the Daughters of the American Revolution essentially celebrated the tenth anniversary of the construction of their prestigious Constitution Hall by denying Marian Anderson the right to perform there. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her membership in protest of their ignorant vulgarity and made certain that Marian Anderson was treated with the respect that she deserved by arranging for this divine woman to sing instead at the Lincoln Memorial. Living Era's overview of Marian Anderson's musical legacy reflects the rich diversity of multiple traditions; in addition to AfroAmerican sacred songs and Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home", multilingual Marian Anderson performs arias from Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Carlos" and Camille SaintSaëns' "Samson and Delilah"; she presides over powerful passages from J.S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" and G.F. Handel's "Messiah" as well as a treasure trove of beautiful lieder by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergey Rachmaninoff, J.P. Martini and (in Swedish) Jan Sibelius. Marian Anderson's voice moved through tonal regions rarely traveled by other singers; it is a mystery realm that exists somewhere between the mezzosopranos and the altos. Ewa Podles seems to have been born there, and Mitsuko Shirai visits regularly, as did Jan DeGaetani and Arleen Auger from time to time. There is something disarmingly visceral and true to life about the way these women emanate Spirit. Anderson, like Podles, is capable of creating an arrested moment in eternity during which the rest of the cosmos might better stop and listen, as her marvelous voice seems to originate somewhere deep within invisible recessed realms. The word contralto' hardly does justice to this magical wavelength. Spend an hour listening to Marian Andersonher voice will transform you. - arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide |
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Marian Anderson was an opera singer. A contralto, she sang both opera and spirituals, beginning her concert career in 1924 and at first concentrating on Europe. In 1939, she became a cause célèbre of the civil rights movement when she was ba...Full Marian Anderson Biography
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