Marian Anderson: Rarities (Broadcast Performances, 1943-1952) (CD)

VAI continues its survey of the art of Marian Anderson with a disc of live radio performances.
[2001, Mono, 54 minutes]

"Concert Hall" 1943
Divinités du Styx, from Alceste (Gluck)
I Was There When They Crucified My Lord (Traditional)
The Hills (La Forge)
Traditional: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Traditional) [with piano accompaniment]
She Never Told Her Love (Haydn)
My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair (Haydn)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Traditional; arr. Lawrence Brown)
Dreamin', Dreamin' (Traditional)
Casta Diva, from Norma (Bellini)

"Music from America" 1944
Songs My Mother Taught Me (Dvorak)
Lord, I Can't Stay Away (Traditional; arr. Roland Hayes)
Every Time I Feel the Spirit (Traditional; arr. Lawrence Brown)
Pace, pace, mio Dio, from La forza del destino (Verdi)

"Music from America" 1946
He Shall Feed His Flock, from Messiah (Handel)
Plus grand dans son obscurité, from La reine de Saba (Gounod)

Untitled program, August 10, 1952
De Gospel Train (Traditional; arr. Burleigh)
Go Down, Moses (Traditional; arr. Burleigh)
Bright Phoebus (Hook)

Marian Anderson, contralto
Orchestra conducted by Donald Voorhees