Various Artists - River Songs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This is a great collection of songs inspired by the river. The album includes traditional folk songs, works by composers such as Stephen Foster and John Jacob Niles, as well as works by Korngold, Rorem, Weill, and others. All of these are brought to the listener in beautiful performances. The American baritone, Steven Kimbrough, studied at the University of Birmingham, Alabama, and at Princeton Theological Seminary (graduated in 1962). He had further studies in Italy. Kimbrough is well known as a recital and concert singer through many appearances at New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and with symphonies in the USA and abroad. He is the foremost interpreter of the Inchturn-of-the-centuryInch school of Viennese composers (most of whom were effaced by Hitler's Third Reich), as is demonstrated by his many highly praised recordings. He has presented in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and elsewhere a recital of their songs under the title InchForbidden Composers.Inch Album Tracks 1. The Boatmen's Dance, Minstrel Song (1943) 2. O Shenandoah 3. Deep River 4. My River Runs to Thee 5. Shall We Gather at the River 6. The River Flows, Op. 27, #2 7. The Lordly Hudson 8. Bendemeer's Stream 9. River Chanty 10. At the River 11. The Negro Speaks of Rivers 12. The Gambler's Song of the Big Sandy River 13. Flow Gently, Sweet Afton 14. The Green River 15. To the River 16. Old Folks at Home