Sing Freedom! African American Spirituals
Music/settings by Craig Hella Johnson, David Lang, Robert Kyr, Tarik O’Regan and others
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2011
Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson & Company of Voices
Harmonia Mundi HMU 807525 – 72’07″
Recorded October 2010 at Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen, IN
Craig Hella Johnson, Conductor
Conspirare presents some of the beloved twentieth-century arrangements alongside some lesser known settings. Includes premiere recordings of new settings by important composers of our day: David Lang, Tarik O’Regan and an original composition by Robert Kyr based on African musical traditions. Settings by Craig Hella Johnson (CHJ) are also included.
Track listing and audio samples:
- Motherless Child (arr. CHJ)
- A City Called Heaven (arr. Leonard de Paur)
- Soon Ah Will Be Done / I Wanna Die Easy (arr. CHJ)
- Soon Ah Will Be Done (arr. William L. Dawson)
- Hard Trials (arr. CHJ)
- Hold On (arr. Moses Hogan)
- Been in de Storm / Wayfaring Stranger (arr. CHJ)
- Oh Graveyard (Lay this Body Down) (arr. David Lang)
- Ain’-a That Good News! (arr. William L. Dawson)
- Steal Away (arr. Michael Tippett)
- Walk Together, Children (arr. Moses Hogan)
- I Got a Home in-a Dat Rock (arr. Moses Hogan)
- Lily of the Valley (arr. Wendell Whalum)
- Plenty Good Room (On the Glory Train) (Kirby Shaw)
- My God Is a Rock (arr. Alice Parker & Robert Shaw)
- Freedom Song (Robert Kyr)
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (arr. Tarik O'Regan)Trac