MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: To The Soul: Thomas Hampson Sings The Poetry Of Walt Whitman

 
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: To The Soul: Thomas Hampson Sings The Poetry Of Walt Whitman
Thomas Hampson (baritone) Craig Rutenbery (piano)

[ EMI Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 1 August 1996

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TO THE SOUL is a collection centered on a poet rather than a composer. Walt Whitman's words have inspired over a thousand song settings, whose range is suggested here. Towering behind them all is the figure of Whitman himself, the excited voice of an emergent nation, champion of individual freedom and spirituality, lover of nature, at once the most public and personal of poets. Thomas Hampson has chosen an intriguing recital, filled with names both familiar and obscure.

Among the rarities is the quotationally evocative "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" by Henry Thacker Burleigh - a student of Dvorák and one of the first conservatory-trained African American composers. The program also includes the provocatively plain setting of "As I Watched the Ploughman Ploughing" by Philip Dalmas, for whom we have not even a birth date. There are contributions from Ralph Vaughan Williams, Paul Hindemith, Ned Rorem and even Kurt Weill, but the highlight is Leonard Bernstein's "To What You Said," a moving statement culled from an unpublished Whitman letter and one of the great American art songs. Hampson sings throughout with the art which conceals art, beautiful, but just right. (AllMusic)

"The performances throughout are exceptionally fine, intimately and subtly expressive but opening out nobly to expressions of passionate idealism." Gramophone

Tracks:

One's Self I Sing [Spoken] 0:43
As Adam Early In The Morning 1:40
The Last Invocation 3:04
To The Soul 4:02
A Clear Midnight 1:51
Joy, Shipmate, Joy! 1:22
The Mystic Trumpeter [Spoken] 1:20
Prayer Of Columbus 6:38
One Thought Ever At The Fore 1:30
As I Watch'd The Ploughman Ploughing 2:04
Sing On There In The Swamp 2:11
Look Down Fair Moon 2:47
Memories Of Lincoln 7:36
Look Down Fair Moon 1:21
Ethiopia Saluting The Colors 6:32
Dirge For Two Veterans 4:53
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me [Spoken] 0:38
Walt Whitman 0:51
Behold This Swarthy Face 1:36
We Two 2:40
Among The Multitude 2:14
Sometimes With One I Love 1:30
We Two Boys Together Clinging 6:03
That Shadow, My Likeness 1:57
To What You Said 5:35
Song Of Myself [Spoken] 2:00