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Africa sings

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Africa sings

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Duke Ellington's "Black, Brown & Beige" recorded on 28th of June 2017 at the Musiktheater Linz, Großer OrchestersaalOrchestra recording of Philip Glass' "Ife Songs" recorded on 3rd of March 2015 at the Musiktheater Linz, Großer OrchestersaalAlexander Zemlinsky's "Symphonische Gesange fur eine Baritonstlmme und Orchester, op.20" recorded on March 3, 2015 Brucknerhaus Linz (Brucknerfest 2015)

"Africa Sings is a probing celebration into African music, through classical music and jazz, through legacy and tradition. The recital begins with Angélique Kidjo singing Bella Bellow's Senye, segueing into the premiere recording of Philip Glass's orchestral song-cycle Three Ifé Songs, composed for Kidjo in 2014. The focus goes then to American music with Duke Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige in Maurice Peress orchestral arrangement, before shifting to Europe and Alexander Zemlinsky's Symphonic Songs sung by Martin Achrainer which set, in translation into German, the poems of the great Harlem Renaissance poets Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Frank Horne. Kidjo joins the venerable Bruckner Orchester Linz and conductor Dennis Russell Davies who cruise through the Ellington before digging deep into the Zemlinsky with baritone Martin Achrainer in tour-de-force performances from beginning to end."--Amazon.com

Senye -- Olodumare -- Yemandja -- Oshumare -- Black -- Brown -- Beige -- Song from Dixieland -- Song of the Cotton Picker -- Dead Brown Girl -- Bad Man -- Disillusion -- African Dance -- Arabesque

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