Negro Spirituals 1909-1940 / Various Negro Spirituals 1909-1940 / Various CD

(2-CD set) With outstanding renditions from talented soloists and vocal ensembles, using refined arrangements, negro spiritual - of popular folk origin - is regarded today as the classical art song-form of black America.

1. Deep River - Marian Anderson 2. My Lord, What a Morning - Marian Anderson 3. Lord, I Can't Stay Away/Heav'n, Heav'n - Marian Anderson 4. Crucifixion - Marian Anderson 5. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Jules Bledsoe 6. I Stood on de Ribber Ob Jerdon 7. Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray 8. Go Down Moses - Roland Hayes 9. Lit'l Boy (Christ in the Temple) 10. 'Roun' 'Bout de Mountain - Roland Hayes 11. Hear de Lambs a Cryin'/Plenty Good Room 12. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - Dorothy Maynor 13. Steal Away to Jesus - Dorothy Maynor 14. Go Down, Moses/Deep River - John Payne 15. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Paul Robeson 16. Witness - Paul Robeson 17. Were You There? - Paul Robeson 18. De Ole Ark's A-Movering/Ezekiel Saw de Wheel - Paul Robeson 19. Pickin' on the Harp Wid de Golden Strings - Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers 20. There Is a Balm in Gilead 21. Little David 22. Blow, Gabriel, Blow - Fisk University Jubilee Singers 23. I've Heard of a City Called Heaven - Hall Negro Quartette 24. De Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried - Morris Brown Quartet 25. Climbing Jacob's Ladder 26. Hallelujah - the Rust College Quintet 27. Let the Church Roll on - Southern University Quartet 28. Live A-Humble - Tuskegee Institute Singers 29. My Way's Cloudy/I'm A-Rolling - Tuskegee Institute Singers 30. Heaven Song - Tuskegee Institute Singers 31. Mary Don't You Weep 32. I'm So Glad Trouble Don't Last Always 33. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho - Dixie Jubilee Singers 34. Send One Angel Down - Dixie Jubilee Singers 35. Good News/Standin' in the Need of Prayer/Religion Is a Fortune 36. Old Ship of Zion - the Hall Johnson Choir, Kenneth Spencer