Conspirare & Graig Hella Johnson: Sing Freedom!

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Label: harmonia mundi
Catalog: 807525
Format: SACD / CD Hybrid

Conspirare - choral ensemble, Graig Hella Johnson, conductor, piano and Company of Voices

African American Spirituals
Motherless Child / A City Called Heaven / Soon Ah Will Be Done... - I Wanna Die Easy / Soon Ah Will Be Done / Hard Trials / Hold On! / Been in de Storm... - Wayfaring Stranger / Oh Graveyard (Lay This Body Down) / Ain'-a That Good News! / Steal Away / Walk Together, Children / I Got a Home in-a Dat Rock / Lily of the Valley / Plenty Good Room (On the Glory Train) / My God is a Rock / Freedom Song / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

One of the seminal American musical traditions, the spiritual is dramatic, powerful, and profoundly beautiful - the bedrock for much of American music that was to follow. Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare explore here the genre's wide range of expression and its eloquence in speaking to universal aspects of the human condition. "One of America's leading vocal ensembles" (International Record Review)

Price: $22.98