This is a follow up to the astoundlingly successful Album "Black Swans: Earliest African-American Classical Stars". Produced by Leslie Gerber with painstaking re-mastering from Steve Smolian, this 2 CD set follows the canon through to the early 1960s.

Tracklist:

Handel: Messiah-Rejoice greatly
Bishop: Home, Sweet Home
Anon.: Every Time I feel the Spirit
Kern: Show Boat-Old Man River
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody / Carol Brice, contralto
Mortensen: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Frost)
Brockway (arr.): The Nightingale, `One Morning in May'
Burleigh (arr.): Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Johnson (arr.): Hold On
Jordan (arr.): His Name So Sweet
Mortensen: Adventures of Isabel
Rossini: Stabat Mater-Fac ut portem
Hayes (arr.): Sister Mary
Hayes (arr.): Little Boy
Bachelet: ChÃ¨re nuit
Sauguet: Berceuse creole
Delibes: LakmÃ©-Ou va la jeune indoue ("Bell Song")
Disc 2:Shulamit Ran: O, the Chimneys (poems by Nelly Sachs)
Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe
Saint-SaÃ«ns: Danse macabre
Mussorgsky: The Seminarianist
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess-My Man's Gone Now
Dawson: Talk About a Child that do Love Jesus
Johnson (arr.): Honor! Honor!
Foster: Old Folks at Home
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro-Dove sono
Verdi: Aida-Quest' asissa
Verdi: Aida-E in uo potere lo sto! In poser di lei!
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess-Summertime
Daugherty (arr.): Sea Shanties:Rio Grande
Blow Ye Winds
Across the Western Ocean
Mobile Bay
Shenandoah
Carpenter: When I bring you coloured toys

UPC: 602003690068
Label: Parnassus
Release Date: 1.21.22
Format: CD

Robert Mcferrin / Anderson,Marian / Warfield - Black Swans: Mid Century (CD)