Will Liverman, Jonathan King – Show Me The Way (Extended Version) (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Will Liverman, Jonathan King – Show Me The Way (Extended Version) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:30:34 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Cedille Records

Grammy Award-winning, “velvet voiced” (NPR) baritone Will Liverman and pianist Jonathan King present a recital program honoring women in classical music, past and present, on Show Me The Way, Liverman’s second “passion project” recording for Cedille.Praised as “nothing short of extraordinary” (Opera News), Liverman and King have curated a moving and poignant recital celebrating American female composers from 20th-century trailblazers Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Amy Cheney Beach to present-day composers commissioned for this program.

This new album, Liverman’s second with longtime recital partner pianist Jonathan King, is inspired by and honors the singer’s mother, gospel singer Terry Liverman, and their mutual love of song. The Livermans perform together on recording for the first time in their own arrangement of Alma Bazel Androzzo’s cherished hymn If I Can Help Somebody.

Two new song cycles serve as pillars of the recording: Jasmine Barnes’ A Sable Jubilee with a newly commissioned libretto by Tesia Kwarteng that celebrates Black Joy and Libby Larsen’s three movement Machine Head: Ted Burke Poems depicting everyday American life. Liverman premiered the cycles in an “extraordinary recital… as meaningful in content as it was rich with his resonant voice—both elements impressive for their range” (Aspen Times).

Liverman, “one of the most versatile singing artists performing today,” (Bachtrack) is joined by all-star special guests including J’Nai Bridges in a somber new work by Rene Orth and Renée Fleming in Sarah Kirkland Snider’s mysterious and affecting Everything That Ever Was. He sings a duet from Amy Beach’s rarely performed opera, Cabildo, with Nicole Cabell, featuring violinist Lady Jess and cellist Tahirah Whittington.

Also featured on the album are Jonathan King’s arrangement of Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb’s You Show Me The Way originally performed by the duo at New York’s Savoy Ballroom, as well as a new work, Spell to Turn the World Around, by Kamala Sankaram, with a text that calls awareness to the destruction caused by wildfires.

Tracklist:

1-1. Will Liverman – You Showed Me the Way (Arr. for Voice and Piano by J. King) (04:26)
1-2. Lady Jess – Lady Jess speaking (01:00)
1-3. Will Liverman – No. 1, Inspiration (06:45)
1-4. Will Liverman – No. 2, Luxury (04:42)
1-5. Will Liverman – I Grew a Rose (04:26)
1-6. Sarah Kirkland Snider – Sarah Kirkland Snider speaking (01:47)
1-7. Will Liverman – A Prayer (04:00)
1-8. J’nai Bridges – J’nai Bridges speaking (00:28)
1-9. Will Liverman – No. 1, Even in the Moment (03:04)
1-10. Will Liverman – No. 2, Feast (01:26)
1-11. Will Liverman – No. 3, I Know My Mind (04:13)
1-12. Will Liverman – No. 4, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (03:02)
1-13. Will Liverman – Ah, love is a jasmine vine” (07:16)
1-14. Nicole Cabell – Nicole Cabell speaking (00:43)
1-15. Will Liverman – Spell to Turn the World Around (06:55)
1-16. Will Liverman – Songs to the Dark Virgin (02:21)
1-17. Tahirah Whittington – Tahirah Whittington speaking (00:17)
1-18. Will Liverman – Machine Head. Ted Burke Poems: No. 1, Rexall (05:03)
1-19. Libby Larsen – Libby Larsen speaking (01:23)
1-20. Will Liverman – No. 2, My Father Intercepts My Trip to Another Planet (08:36)
1-21. Will Liverman – No. 3, Machine Head (05:58)
1-22. Renée Fleming – Renée Fleming speaking (00:34)
1-23. Will Liverman – Everything That Ever Was (07:06)
1-24. Terry Liverman – Terry Liverman speaking (00:38)
1-25. Will Liverman – If I Can Help Somebody (Arr. for Vocals and Piano by T. and W. Liverman) (04:14)

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