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.

Tracklist:

Lingering Last Drops
6 Songs: No. 2, World Take Good Notice
Songs At Parting: No. 2, The Last Invocation
Songs At Parting: No. 7, Whispers Of Heavenly Death
Songs At Parting: No. 5, One Thought Ever At The Fore
Songs At Parting: No. 3, Darest Thou Now, O Soul
Songs At Parting: No. 1, Grand Is The Seen
Songs To The Dark Virgin
My Dream
4 Negro Songs: No. 1, Shake Your Brown Feet, Honey
4 Negro Songs: No. 2, The Cryin' Blues
4 Negro Songs: No. 3, Jazz-Boys
3 Dream Portraits: No. 1, Minstrel Man
3 Dream Portraits: No. 2, Dream Variation
3 Dream Portraits: No. 3, I, Too
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
2 Songs, Op. 33: No. 1, Elegy
Gitanjali: Credo
Gitanjali: No. 1, When I Bring To You Colour'd Toys
Gitanjali: No. 2, On The Day When Death Will Knock At Thy Door
Gitanjali: No. 3, The Sleep That Flits On Baby's Eyes
Gitanjali: No. 4, I Am Like A Remnant Of A Cloud Of Autumn
Gitanjali: No. 5, On The Seashore Of Endless Worlds
Gitanjali: No. 6, Light, My Light
Gitanjali: Epilogue

UPC: 735131918022
Label: Cedille
Release Date: 9.14.18
Format: CD

Price / Hampson - Songs from Chicago (CD)