BLACK COMPOSER
CD RECORDINGS - 2000
Updated 2008

Supplements the document:  Comprehensive Reference Guide to Black Composer Recordings

Composers recorded in 2000

• Adams, H. Leslie

• Baker, David Nathaniel

• Bethune, Thomas Greene

• Blake, J. Hubert "Eubie"

• Bonds , Margaret

• Brown, Charles

• Burleigh , Henry Thacker

• Capers, Valerie

• Carter, John

• Cohen, Cecil

• Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

• Dédé, Edmond

• Dent, Cedric

• Drew, James

• Europe, James Reese

• Fernandez, Oscar Lorenzo

• Gardner, Samuel

• Hailstork, Adolphus

• Hancock, Eugene

• Joplin, Scott

• Lambert, Charles Lucièn

• Lambert, Lucièn-Leon

• Logan, Frederick

• Marsalis, Ellis

• Moore, Undine Smith

• Newby, Stephen Michael

• Newton, James

• Owens, Robert

• Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor

• Price, Florence Beatrice

• Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne Chevalier de

• Singleton, Alvin

• Smith, Hale

• Smith, Wadada Leo

• Sowande, Fela

• Still, William Grant

• Swanson, Howard

• Whalum, Wendell

• Wilson, Olly

• Work, Henry Clay

• Walker, George

• White, Clarence C.

• Work, John Wesley, Jr.

Works For Violin & Organ Vol 4 - Airs & Romances / Murray

     Raven Recordings   #: 510 

     Released: November 2000

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
     - Suite de pièces for Violin and Piano/Organ, Op. 3

Coleridge-Taylor, Sowande, Still / Paul Freeman, et. al.

     Cedille Records   # 55 

     Released: November 2000

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
     - African Suite: Danse negre

     - Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77

Sowande, Fela
     - African Suite: no 1, Joyful Day

     - African Suite: no 2, Nostalgia

     - African Suite: no 5, Akinla

Still, William Grant
     - Symphony no 1 "Afro-American"

For BC - The Redlands Sessions / Marty Walker, et al

     Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI)   # 866

     Released: November 2000

Smith, Wadada Leo
     - Betty Shabazz - A Consistent Voice of Love, An Inspiration for Life (bass clarinet,
       piano)

Southwest Chamber Music Composer Portrait Series 

     Cambria   # 8800

     Released: October 2000

Smith, Wadada Leo
     - Grand Oak Trees at Dawn (flute)

     - Quartet for Strings no 1

     - Quartet for Strings no 3 "Black Church"

     - Bardsdale (guitar)

Let Us Break Bread Together/ Harold Jones, Colette Valentine  

     Leonarda   # 333

     Released: October 2000

Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor
     - Miniatures (3) for Flute and Piano

Introducing Kevin Sharpe

     Eroica Classical Recordings   # 3045

     Released: October 2000

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
     - Scènes (4) de ballet for Piano, Op. 64

Music Of Hale Smith - Innerflexions, etc / Shaw, et. al.

Smith, Hale
     - Innerflexions
     - Evocation (Natalie Hinderas, piano)
     - Toussaint L'Ouverture 1803
     - Dialogues and Commentaries
     - Variations à due
     - The Valley Wind
     - In Memoriam Beryl Rubinstein

Latin Album / Keith Lockhart, Boston Pops Orchestra

Fernandez, Oscar Lorenzo
     - Reisado do pastoreio: Batuque

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphonies and Concertos Vol 5 

     Avenira   # 9989

     Released: September 2000

Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne Chevalier de

     - Symphonies concertantes (2) for 2 Violins, Op. 9: no 1 in C major

     - Concertos (2) for Violin, Op. 3: no 2 in C major

     - Symphonies concertantes (2) for 2 Violins and Viola, Op. 10: no 2 in A major

     - Concerto for Violin in G major, Op. 8 no 11

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphonies and Concertos Vol 4 

     Avenira   # 9988

     Released: September 2000

Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne Chevalier de

     - Symphonies concertantes (2) for 2 Violins and Viola, Op. 10: no 1 in F major

     - Concertos (2) for Violin, Op. 5: no 2 in A major

     - Symphonie concertante for 2 Violins in G major, Op. 13

     - Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 8 no 10

Cello America Vol 2 - Foss, Creston, etc / King, Jensen

 Drew, James
     - Sonata for Cello and Piano "Appassionata"

Still: Afro American Symphony, etc; Olly Wilson / Cai 

     Centaur Records   # 2331

     Released: August 2000

Still, William Grant
     - Symphony no 1 "Afro-American"

     - Kaintuck (piano, orchestra)

     - Dismal Swamp (piano, orchestra)

Wilson, Olly
     - Expansions III

Magnetic Rags - Ragtime For Brass / Avatar Brass Quintet
     Klavier Records   # 77029

Joplin, Scott

     - Magnetic Rag

     - Bethena

     - Eugenia

     - The Ragtime Dance
     - Treemonisha: A Real Slow Drag

Blake, J. Hubert "Eubie"
     - Fizz Water

Europe, James Reese
     - Castle House Rag

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphonies and Concertos Vol 3 

     Avenira   # 9987

     Released: July 2000

Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne Chevalier de

     - Symphonies concertantes (2) for 2 Violins, Op. 9: no 2 in A major

     - Concertos (2) for Violin, Op. 5: no 1 in C major

     - Symphonie concertante for 2 Violins in E flat major, Op. 12

     - Concertos (2) for Violin, Op. 7: no 2 in B flat major

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphonies and Concertos Vol 2 

     Avenira   # 9986

Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne Chevalier de

     - Concerto for Violin in G major, Op. 8 no 9

     - Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 4

     - Concertos (2) for Violin, Op. 2: no 1 in G major

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphonies and Violin Concertos Vol 1 

     Avenira   # 9985

     Released: July 2000

Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de 

     - Symphony in D major, Op. XI No. 2 (Ouverture of “L’amant anonyme”)

     - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. III, No. 1

     - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. VIII, No. 1

     - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. II, No. 2

The Long Island Composers Alliance / Leonard Lehrman 

     Capstone Records   # 8661

     Released: July 2000

Smith, Hale
     - Evocation (piano)

Starker Plays Baker / János Starker, Alain Planès, et. al.

Baker, David Nathaniel
     - Sonata for Cello
     - Singers of Songs/Weavers of Dreams

As The Sound Of Many Waters - James Newton: Chamber Music 

     New World Records   # 80579

     Released: June 2000

Newton, James

     - As the Sound of Many Waters (flute)

     - Violet (cello, violin, marimba, clarinet, flute, piano)

     - Gihon (violin)

     - Like Jasper and Carnelian (flute)

     - The King's Way (bassoon, percussion)

Sence You Went Away - Art Songs & Spirituals

     Albany Records   # 387

     Released: May 2000

Adams, H. Leslie
     - Millay Songs (5)

     - Nightsongs (6): no 4, Sence you went away

Carter, John

     - Cantata

Capers, Valerie
     - Song of the Seasons

Whalum, Wendell
     - Sweet Jesus

     - God is a God

Hailstork, Adolphus
     - Slave Song

Dent, Cedric
     - Somebody's Knocking at Your Door

Hancock, Eugene
     - Absalom

Merit - Contemporary American Piano Trios Vol 2 

     Music & Arts Programs of America # 4933

     Released: April 2000

Wilson, Olly
     - Trio for Piano and Strings

Essential Soloists - Foden Courtois Band 

     Doyen   # 98

     Released: April 2000

Work, Henry Clay
     - Grandfather's clock

Paul Freeman Introduces David N. Baker / Czech National So
     Albany Records   # 377

Baker, David Nathaniel
     - Alabama Landscape

     - Refractions

     - Life Cycles

Brasil Piano - Mignone, Nazareth, et al / De Moura Castro

The Civil War / Douglas Jimerson

Work, Henry Clay
     - Marching Through Georgia

Burleigh , Henry Thacker
     - Go Down Moses

     - Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

American Classics - Lambert, Lucièn-Léon and Charles etc 

     Naxos   # 559037

     Released: March 2000

Lambert, Lucièn-Leon

     - Overture de Brocéliande

     - Hymnis

     - Esquisses Créoles sur des thèmes recueillis par Gottschalk

     - Prelude, fugue et postlude

     - Chants d'oiseaux

Lambert, Charles Lucièn

     - Bresiliana

     - L'Amazone, Op. 67

     - Le Castillian

     - L'Américaine

     - Le Calabrais, Op. 39

     - Variations et final sur l'air "Au Clair de la Lune", Op. 30

Made In The USA / Andrés Cárdenes, Luz Manriquez  (violin, piano)

     Ocean Records   # 103

     Released: March 2000

Gardner, Samuel

     - Jazzeto, Op. 24 (violin, piano)

     - Coquetterie, Op. 26

     - From the canebrake, Op. 5 no 1

Logan, Frederick

     - Pale Moon

White, Clarence C.

     - Levee Dance, Op. 27 no 2

Dark Fires Vol 2 - Marsalis, Baker, et al / Walwyn, et al

Marsalis, Ellis
     - Fourth Autumn (piano)

Baker, David Nathaniel
     - Sonata no 1 (piano)

Singleton, Alvin

     - In Our Own House (percussion, trumpet, saxophone, piano)
Hailstork, Adolphus
     - Sonata for Trumpet and Piano

American Classics - Edmond Dédé: Chicago, etc / Rosenberg

Dédé, Edmond

     - Chicago

     - Tond les chiens, coup les chats

     - Merliton fin de siècle

     - Rêverie champêtre

     - Mephisto masqué

     - Battez aux champs

     - El Pronunciamento

     - Cora La Bordelaise

     - Mon pauvre couer

     - Chicago

     - Mon Sous Off!

     - Françoise et Tortillard

     - Mon Sous Off!cier

     - Mephisto masqué

A Tree In Your Ear - Stephen Caplan, et. al. 

     MSR   # 1014

     Released: March 2000

Norma and Richard Mayer at the Rimsky-Korsakov Museum 

     The Orchard   # 590

     Released: March 2000

Still, William Grant
     - Here's One (flute, voice)

Johnson, Hall
     - Work(s) (flute, voice)

An American Portrait - Griffes, Beach, Et Al /Richard Crosby 

     Capstone Records   # 8671

     Released: February 2000

Still, William Grant

     - Seven Traceries (piano)

Amazing Grace - An American Tapestry / Wissinger, Klibonoff 

     Eroica Classical Recordings   # 3031

     Released: February 2000

Still, William Grant

     - Bayou Home (flute, piano)

Ah! Love, But A Day - Songs And Spirituals Of American Women

Bonds, Margaret
     - Songs of the Season
     - The Pasture

     - Little David play on your harp

Moore, Undine Smith
     - To be baptised

     - Set down!

     - I want to die while you love me

     - Come down angels
Price, Florence Beatrice

     - Sympathy

     - The glory of the day was in her face

Davis Plays Blind Tom
     Newport Classic   # 85660

     Released: January 2000

Bethune, Thomas Greene
     - Cyclone Galop                         - The Rainstorm

     - Battle of Manassas                  - Grand March Resurrection

     - Voice of the Waves                 - Oliver Galop

     - Virginia Polka                          - Water in the Moonlight

     - Vivo Galop                              - Daylight
     - March Timpani                        - Reve Charmant
     - Improvisation on "When this Cruel War is Over"
     - Sewing Song "Imitation of a Sewing Machine"

The Negro Speaks Of Rivers /Odekhiren Amaize, David Korevaar

     MSR   #1011

     Released: January 2000

Adams, H. Leslie - Millay Songs no 3, For you there is no song

Bonds, Margaret - Dream Portraits

Brown, Charles - The Barrier

Cohen, Cecil - Death of an Old Seaman

Moore, Undine Smith - Love, let the wind cry how I adore thee

Owens, Robert - Faithful One

     - Genius Child

Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor - Melancholy

Price, Florence Beatrice - Night

     - To the Dark Virgin

Swanson, Howard - A Death Song

     - The Negro speaks of rivers

Walker, George - A Red, Red Rose

Work, John Wesley, Jr. - Dancing in the sun by Soliloquy

     - Soliloquy

Christmas With The Master Chorale and Empire Brass

     Amis Musical Circle   # 011

     Released: 2000

Amis, Kenneth

     - Angels We Have Heard on High (arr.)

     - Bell-Tone’s Ring

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