Thomas Hampson – Songs from Chicago (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Thomas Hampson – Songs from Chicago (2018)
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Thomas Hampson, America’s leading baritone and a champion of the art of classic song — poetry set to music — makes his Cedille Records debut with a program of songs by five composers of the early 20th century associated with the city of Chicago: Ernst Bacon, Florence Price, John Alden Carpenter, Margaret Bonds, and Louis Campbell-Tipton. All of them, Hampson says, “have distinguished themselves in history as great voices of the artistic American narrative.”

Hailed as “an outstanding recitalist” by Grove Music Online, the much-honored international opera star, recording artist, and “ambassador of song” performs compositions based on poems by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet who became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Hampson, whose discography includes more than 170 albums, including Grammy and Grand Prix de Disque award winners, is accompanied on Songs from Chicago by collaborative pianist extraordinaire Kuang-Hao Huang, accompanist of choice for Chicago’s top singers and instrumentalists.

The New York Philharmonic’s first Artist-in-Residence, Hampson also has been honored with a Concertgebouw Prize, Library of Congress Living Legends Award, and the Hugo-Wolf-Medal for outstanding achievements in the art of song interpretation, among many other awards.

Notes by Thomas Hampson: I have long been a fan of Cedille Records and its mandate to record the works of Chicago-based composers and performers. It was a casual conversation with the label’s President and producer, James Ginsburg, about when he might make a recording of Chicago-based song composers that led to the birth of this album. Knowing that Ernst Bacon and John Alden Carpenter were local originals, I immediately took up the challenge to explore what other colleagues might be Chicago-based and was surprised at the list of prominent, yet still relatively unknown American composers of song who emanated from or settled in Chicago. …

Tracklist:
1-01. Thomas Hampson – Songs at Parting – No. 1. Lingering Last Drops (01:37)
1-02. Thomas Hampson – 6 Songs – No. 2. World Take Good Notice (00:57)
1-03. Thomas Hampson – Songs at Parting – No. 3. The Last Invocation (02:05)
1-04. Thomas Hampson – Songs at Parting – No. 4. On the Frontiers (03:45)
1-05. Thomas Hampson – Songs at Parting – No. 5. The Divine Ship (02:03)
1-06. Thomas Hampson – Songs at Parting – No. 6. Darest Thou Now, O Soul (04:01)
1-07. Thomas Hampson – Songs at Parting – No. 7. Grand Is the Seen (02:35)
1-08. Thomas Hampson – Songs to the Dark Virgin – Songs to the Dark Virgin (01:57)
1-09. Thomas Hampson – My Dream (02:06)
1-10. Thomas Hampson – 4 Negro Songs – No. 1. Shake your brown feet, honey (02:05)
1-11. Thomas Hampson – 4 Negro Songs – No. 3. The Cryin’ Blues (02:22)
1-12. Thomas Hampson – 4 Negro Songs – No. 2. Jazz-Boyz (01:15)
1-13. Thomas Hampson – 3 Dream Portraits – No. 1. Minstrel Man (01:41)
1-14. Thomas Hampson – 3 Dream Portraits – No. 2. Dream Variation (01:44)
1-15. Thomas Hampson – 3 Dream Portraits – No. 3. I, Too (01:42)
1-16. Thomas Hampson – The Negro Speaks of Rivers – The Negro Speaks of Rivers (03:56)
1-17. Thomas Hampson – 2 Songs, Op. 33 – No. 1. Elegy (02:47)
1-18. Thomas Hampson – Gitanjali – Credo (01:01)
1-19. Thomas Hampson – Gitanjali – When I bring to You Colour’d Toys (02:23)
1-20. Thomas Hampson – Gitanjali – On the Day When Death Will Knock at Thy Door (03:03)
1-21. Thomas Hampson – Gitanjali – The Sleep that Flits on Baby’s Eyes (02:27)
1-22. Thomas Hampson – Gitanjali – I am Like a Remnant of a Cloud of Autumn (04:27)
1-23. Thomas Hampson – Gitanjali – On the Seashore of Endless Worlds Children Meet (05:30)
1-24. Thomas Hampson – Gitanjali – Light, My Light (02:21)
1-25. Thomas Hampson – Gitanjali – Epilogue (00:23)

Personnel:
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano

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