Paul Robeson—African-American bass-baritone, stage and film actor, All-American football player, lawyer, and advocate for civil rights—was outspoken against racism, colonialism, and social injustice. Rutgers graduate, scholar of world cultures, and speaker of more than 20 languages, he worked tirelessly to break down political and racial barriers, and to build bridges between the peoples of this world. However, with the advent of the Cold War and the Red Scare following World War II, the political climate changed. Doors began to close for Robeson as concert halls and radio stations shut him out. In July 1950, the US State Department revoked the blacklisted artist’s passport thus preventing him from pursuing his successful international career as a singer and actor. But international audiences continued to honor and call out for him, and he found technologically advanced and effective ways to reach his communities all over the world.
Today, his remarkable voice and unrivaled stage presence live on in sound recordings and films. This 14-CD edition is the first ever release of his complete Columbia, Victor, and HMV recordings from 1925 to 1947. All of his American recordings have been meticulously restored from the original master discs and tapes, and 25 studio recordings—as well as his complete historic New York and London recitals from 1958—are here presented for the first time on CD. The richly illustrated 160-page book, with essays by Shana L. Redmond and Susan Robeson, pays tribute to a cultural icon of the 20th century
CD 1
- Were You There? (When They Crucified my Lord) (2024 Remastered Version)
- Steal Away (2024 Remastered Version)
- Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
- Joshua fit the Battle ob Jericho (2024 Remastered Version)
- Bye and Bye (I'm Goin' to Lay Down Dis Heavy Load) (2024 Remastered Version)
- Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
- Li'l Gal (2024 Remastered Version)
- I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound (2024 Remastered Version)
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (2024 Remastered Version)
- On Ma Journey (2024 Remastered Version)
- Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen (2024 Remastered Version)
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2024 Remastered Version)
- Down de Lover's Lane (2024 Remastered Version)
- Hear, de Lam's a-Cryin' (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (2024 Remastered Version)
- Deep River (2024 Remastered Version)
- I'm Goin' to Tell God All O' My Troubles (2024 Remastered Version)
- I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
- Witness (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat") (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ballad for Americans (2024 Remastered Version)
- I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
- Witness (2024 Remastered Version)
CD 2
- Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
- Since You Went Away "Seems Lak To Me"
- Down De Lover's Lane
- Scandalize My Name
- Sinner Please Doan' Let dis Harves' Pass
- Weepin' Mary
- I Want to Be Ready
- My Lord What a Mornin'
- De Li'l Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
- Git on Board Li'l Children
- Dere's No Hidin' Place
- Plantation Songs (Part 1): So Early in the Morning - Carry Me Back to Old Virginia - Old Folks at Home - Goodnight Ladies
- Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie - Poor Old Joe - Oh, Susanna - My Old Kentucky Home
- Oh! Rock Me Julie
- Oh, Didn't It Rain
- Mammy
- Roll Away, Clouds (From "Virginia")
- Sonny Boy (From the 1928 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "The Singing Fool")
- Little Pal (From "Say It with Songs")
- The Lonesome Road
- Just Keepin' On
- Mighty Lak' a Rose
- Mammy is Gone
CD 3
- Hail De Crown
- Exhortation
- I Stood on the Ribber Jordan - Peter Go Ring dem Bells
- Go Down Moses
- High Water
- Old Folks at Home, "Swanee River"
- Poor Old Joe
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River"
- River Stay 'way from My Door
- Rockin' Chair
- Medley of Spirituals
- My Heart is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
- The Folks I Used to Know
- Yes Lord, Oh Lord (Variation of "Mary Had a Baby")
- Lil' Gal
- Bear De Burden - All God's Chillun Got Wing
- That's Why Darkies Were Born (From "George White's Scandals of 1931")
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South (From the 1931 William A. Wellman's Movie "Safe in Hell")
- Seekin'
CD 4
- Nearer, My God, to Thee
- There is a Green Hill Far Away
- Mah Lindy Lou
- Ma Curly-Headed Babby
- Pilgrim's Song
- Roll the Old Chariot Along
- Since You Went Away
- Wid De Moon Moon Moon
- Got the South in My Soul
- Hush-a-bye Lullaby, "Rock-a-bye Baby"
- Round the Bend of the Road
- Take Me Away from the River, "Song from the Viper"
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- On Ma Journey
- Bye and Bye - I'm Goin' to Lay Down dis Heavy Load
- Were You There?
- Swing Along!
- Piccaninny Shoes
- In a Narrow Street
- Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
- Lazy Bones
- Blue Prelude
- Medley I, Pt. 1: Roll De Ole Chariot - Mary Had a Baby - Swing Low - Heav'n, Heav'n
- Medley I, Pt. 2: Carry me Back - Mighty Lak' a Rose - Round the Bend of the Road - River Stay 'Way From my Door - O'l Man River
CD 5
- Fat Li'l Feller wid His Mammy's Eyes
- Short'nin' Bread
- Snowball
- Water Boy
- Doan' You Cry Ma Honey
- Steal Away
- Scarecrow
- Wagon Wheels
- So Shy
- Piccaninny Slumber Song
- St. Louis Blues
- Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy
- Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
- I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin'
- Bandanna Ballads, Op. 22: IV. The Banjo Song
- Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green Pastures - Old Folks at Home
- Love Song (From "Sanders of the River")
- Congo Lullaby (From "Sanders of the River")
- Canoe Song (From "Sanders of the River")
- Killing Song (From "Sanders of the River")
- Shenandoah
- Jes' Mah Song
- De Ole Ark's A-Movering
- Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
- Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
CD 6
- Honey, Dat's All
- Gloomy Sunday "Hungarian Suicide Song"
- Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
- Ah Still Suits Me (From "Show Boat")
- Sleepy River (From "Song of Freedom")
- Lonely Road (From "Song of Freedom")
- Song of Freedom (From "Song of Freedom")
- The Black Emperor (From "Song of Freedom")
- Mam'selle Marie
- Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere
- Oh! No John!
- Passing By: "There is a Lady Sweet and Kind"
- Hammer Song
- Li'l David
- My Way (From "Jericho")
- Golden River (From "Jericho")
- The Wagon Song "Ho! Ho!" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
- The Mountain Song "Climbing up" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
- Lazin' (From "Big Fella")
- I Don't Know What's Wrong (From "Big Fella")
- Roll up Sailorman (From "Big Fella")
- You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things (From "Big Fella")
- Deep Desert (From "Jericho")
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- Minstrel Man
- The Wanderer
CD 7
- Dere's a Man Goin' Round' Takin' Names
- No More Auction Block
- Work All de Summer
- Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
- Silent Night, Holy Night
- All Through the Night
- Solitude
- Mood Indigo
- Summertime (From "Porgy and Bess")
- It Take a Long Pull to Get There (From "Porgy and Bess")
- It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy and Bess")
- A Woman Is a Sometime Thing (From "Porgy and Bess")
- 7 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose: 3. Just A-Wearyin' For You
- At Dawning
- Song of the Volga Boatmen
- An Eriskay Love-Lilt
- Encantadora Maria
- Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot
- Every Time I Feel de Spirit
- Lay Down Late
- Forgotten in E-Flat Minor
- David of the White Rock
- Trees
- Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4
- Loch Lomond
- Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
CD 8
- Down de Lovers' Lane
- Berceuse, Op. 1, No 5
- O Thou Silent Night
- The Little Black Boy (From "Songs of Innocence")
- Dear Old Southland
- Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time)
- The Blind Ploughman
- The Cobbler's Song (From "Chu Chin Chow - A Musical Tale of the East)
- Oh, Could I But Express in Song
- Love At My Heart
- Nothin'
- The Rosary: "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart"
- A Perfect Day
- Absent: "Sometimes, between long shadows on the grass"
- Black Eyes, Russian Gipsy Song
- Oh Promise Me (From "Robin Hood")
- Plaisir d'amour
- Sylvia
- She is Far from the Land (Irish Folk Song)
- Thora
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
- Sea Fever: "I must go down to the seas again" (Lento)
- Ebenezer "Ton-y Botel"
- Land of My Fathers
- Deep River
- Lord God of Abraham - Baal Chorus (From "Elijah")
CD 9
- Quiet Flows the Don: From Border to Border (2024 Remastered Version)
- Quiet Flows the Don: Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don (2024 Remastered Version)
- No for an Answer: The Purest Kind of Guy (Joe's Birhday Song) (2024 Remastered Version)
- Joe Hill (2024 Remastered Version)
- The Peat-Bog Soldiers (2024 Remastered Version)
- The Four Insurgent Generals - Spanish Folk Song (2024 Remastered Version)
- Song of the Plains "Meadowland" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Native Land "Shiroka strana moya rodnaya" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Balm in Gilead (2024 Remastered Version)
- Chassidic Chant (2024 Remastered Version)
- Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel (From "Elijah, Op. 70") (2024 Remastered Version)
- Berceuse, Op. 1, No 5 (2024 Remastered Version)
- Sunless: 1. Within Four Walls (2024 Remastered Version)
- Song of the Plains "Meadowland" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ol' Man River (From the Film "Show Boat") (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ah Still Suits Me (From the Film "Show Boat") (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ma Curly-Headed Babby (2024 Remastered Version)
- Mah Lindy Lou (2024 Remastered Version)
- The House I Live in (2024 Remastered Version)
- Wagon Wheels (2024 Remastered Version)
- Sylvia (2024 Remastered Version)
- It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy and Bess") (2024 Remastered Version)
- King Joe "Joe Louis Blues" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat") (2024 Remastered Version)
CD 10
- Go Down, Moses (2024 Remastered Version)
- Balm in Gilead (2024 Remastered Version)
- Bye and Bye (2024 Remastered Version)
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (2024 Remastered Version)
- John Henry (2024 Remastered Version)
- Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
- Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen (2024 Remastered Version)
- Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho (2024 Remastered Version)
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2024 Remastered Version)
- Every Time I Feel The Spirit (2024 Remastered Version)
- I Got A Home In Dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
- Gimme Your Han' (2024 Remastered Version)
- No More Auction Block (2024 Remastered Version)
- Great Gettin' Up Morning (2024 Remastered Version)
- Hear Da Lam's A Cryin' (2024 Remastered Version)
- Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot (2024 Remastered Version)
- I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ezekial Saw De Wheel (2024 Remastered Version)
- Poor Wayfarin' Stranger (2024 Remastered Version)
- Hammer Song (2024 Remastered Version)
- Dere's a Man Goin' Round (2024 Remastered Version)
- I Know de Lord (2024 Remastered Version)
- Git on Board, Li'l Children (2024 Remastered Version)
- L'il David (2024 Remastered Version)
CD 11
- Over the Mountain - Love will find Out the Way (2024 Remastered Version)
- Balm in Gilead (2024 Remastered Version)
- Freedom - Moravian Hussite Hymn (2024 Remastered Version)
- A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, BWV 80 (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ode to Joy "Choral Section of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Oh No, John! (2024 Remastered Version)
- An Eriskay Love Lilt (2024 Remastered Version)
- In a Place Far, Far Away "Chinese Folk Song" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Comments on Languages and Music of Many Lands (2024 Remastered Version)
- Borris Godunov, Act IV, Scene 2: "Gospodi! Gospodi! Vozzri, molyu" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, the Moor of Venice: "Soft you, a word or two before you go" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Introduction of Lawrence Brown (2024 Remastered Version)
- Didn't my Lord Deliver Daniel? (2024 Remastered Version)
- Swing Low Sweet Chariot (2024 Remastered Version)
- No More Auction Block (2024 Remastered Version)
- Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
- The Four Insurgent Generals (2024 Remastered Version)
- We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder (2024 Remastered Version)
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (2024 Remastered Version)
- How Does the Keyser Live (2024 Remastered Version)
- Mexican Lullaby (2024 Remastered Version)
- Closing Thanks (2024 Remastered Version)
- The Ballad of Joe Hill (2024 Remastered Version)
- House I Live In (2024 Remastered Version)
CD 12
- Balm in Gilead (2024 Remastered Version)
- L'amour de moi (2024 Remastered Version)
- Symphony No. 9: Ode to Joy (2024 Remastered Version)
- The Orphan Girl (2024 Remastered Version)
- Chassidic Chant (2024 Remastered Version)
- Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? (2024 Remastered Version)
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2024 Remastered Version)
- Every Time I Feel the Spirit (2024 Remastered Version)
- I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (2024 Remastered Version)
- No More Auction Block (2024 Remastered Version)
- Scandalize My Name (2024 Remastered Version)
- Git on Board, Li'l Children (2024 Remastered Version)
- How does the Czar Live (2024 Remastered Version)
- An Eriskay Love Lilt (2024 Remastered Version)
- An Eriskay Love Lilt - Encore (2024 Remastered Version)
- Song of the Volga Boatman (2024 Remastered Version)
- Song of the Volga Boatman - Encore (2024 Remastered Version)
- Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
- Oh No John (2024 Remastered Version)
- Oh Thou Silent Autumn Night (2024 Remastered Version)
- The Ballad of Joe Hill (2024 Remastered Version)
- Ol' Man River (2024 Remastered Version)
- Let the Rail Splitter Awake - Pablo Neruda (2024 Remastered Version)
CD 13
- Othello, Act I, Scene 1: Venice. A Street "Tush! never tell me" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, Act I, Scene 2: "Though in the trade of war I have slain men" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, Act I, Scene 3:"Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, Act II, Scene 1: "The Moor! I know his trumpet!" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, Act II, Scene 3: "Welome Iago - we must to the watch" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, Act III, Scene 3: "Madam I'll take my leave" (2024 Remastered Version)
CD 14
- Othello, Act III, Scene 4: "Emilia where should I lose that hankerchief?" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, Act IV, Scene 1: "Will you think so?" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, Act IV, Scene 2: "You have seen nothing then" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, Act IV, Scene 3: "How goes it now" (2024 Remastered Version)
- Othello, Act V, Scene 2: "It is the cause" (2024 Remastered Version)
| Utgivelsesår | 2024 |
| Produksjonsår | 2014 |
| Format | 14CD |
| Sjanger | Klassisk, Soul |
| Bestillingsnummer | 0194399774526 |
