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℗ 2024 Cedille Records
Released | March 8, 2024 |
Duration | 1h 27m 23s |
Record Label | Cedille Records |
Catalogue No. | CDR 90000 226 |
Genre | Classical (Vocal) |
Show Me The Way
Will Liverman, Jonathan King
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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You Showed Me the Way (Arr. for Voice and Piano by J. King)
Ella Fitzgerald; Chick Webb; Budd Green; Jonathan King; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
4:26 | |||
A Sable Jubilee
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1.2
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No. 1, Inspiration
Jasmine Barnes; Tesia Kwarteng; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
6:45 | |||
1.3
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No. 2, Luxury
Jasmine Barnes; Tesia Kwarteng; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
4:42 | |||
1.4
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No. 3, Elevation
Jasmine Barnes; Tesia Kwarteng; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
3:50 | |||
1.5
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I Grew a Rose
Florence Beatrice Price; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
4:26 | |||
1.6
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A Prayer
Rene Orth; Sara Teasdale; Will Liverman; Jonathan King; J'Nai Bridges |
4:00 | |||
Four Songs
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1.7
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No. 1, Even in the Moment
Margaret Bonds; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
3:04 | |||
1.8
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No. 2, Feast
Margaret Bonds; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
1:26 | |||
1.9
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No. 3, I Know My Mind
Margaret Bonds; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
4:13 | |||
1.10
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No. 4, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
Margaret Bonds; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
3:02 | |||
Cabildo, Op. 149
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1.11
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"Ah, love is a jasmine vine”
Amy Cheney Beach; Nan Bagby Stephens; Will Liverman; Jonathan King; Nicole Cabell; Lady Jess; Tahirah Whittington |
7:16 | |||
1.12
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Spell to Turn the World Around
Kamala Sankaram; Kathryn Smith; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
6:55 | |||
1.13
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Songs to the Dark Virgin
Florence Beatrice Price; Langston Hughes; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
2:21 | |||
Machine Head. Ted Burke Poems
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1.14
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No. 1, Rexall
Libby Larsen; Ted Burke; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
5:03 | |||
1.15
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No. 2, My Father Intercepts My Trip to Another Planet
Libby Larsen; Ted Burke; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
8:36 | |||
1.16
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No. 3, Machine Head
Libby Larsen; Ted Burke; Will Liverman; Jonathan King |
5:58 | |||
1.17
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Everything That Ever Was
Sarah Kirkland Snider; Tracy K. Smith; Will Liverman; Jonathan King; Renée Fleming |
7:06 | |||
1.18
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If I Can Help Somebody (Arr. for Vocals and Piano by T. and W. Liverman)
Alma Bazel Androzzo; Will Liverman; Terry Liverman; Will Liverman; Terry Liverman |
4:14 | |||
Digital Booklet
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Grammy Award-winning, “velvet voiced” (NPR) baritone Will Liverman presents a recital program honoring women in classical music, past and present, on Show Me The Way, his second “passion project” recording for Cedille.
Praised as “nothing short of extraordinary” (Opera News), Liverman has 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.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Cedille Records Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.16 -3.23 to -0.13 | -22.78 -26.81 to -20.38 | -18.67 -21.00 to -16.70 | 13 11 to 16 | |
1 | You Showed Me the Way (Arr. for Voice and Piano by J. King) | -0.77 | -24.11 | -20.5 | 14 |
2 | No. 1, Inspiration | -0.26 | -20.99 | -17.8 | 14 |
3 | No. 2, Luxury | -1.68 | -23.26 | -19.4 | 14 |
4 | No. 3, Elevation | -0.22 | -20.91 | -16.7 | 12 |
5 | I Grew a Rose | -0.39 | -21.86 | -17.9 | 13 |
6 | A Prayer | -0.13 | -24.01 | -18.4 | 14 |
7 | No. 1, Even in the Moment | -0.77 | -23.13 | -18.9 | 12 |
8 | No. 2, Feast | -1.48 | -21.11 | -17.5 | 11 |
9 | No. 3, I Know My Mind | -1.01 | -21.49 | -18.5 | 13 |
10 | No. 4, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed | -1.40 | -22.28 | -18.6 | 12 |
11 | "Ah, love is a jasmine vine” | -1.84 | -20.38 | -16.9 | 11 |
12 | Spell to Turn the World Around | -0.76 | -24.95 | -19.4 | 15 |
13 | Songs to the Dark Virgin | -1.31 | -21.94 | -17.9 | 12 |
14 | No. 1, Rexall | -3.23 | -24.66 | -20.3 | 14 |
15 | No. 2, My Father Intercepts My Trip to Another Planet | -1.08 | -26.81 | -21.0 | 16 |
16 | No. 3, Machine Head | -0.34 | -21.00 | -16.7 | 13 |
17 | Everything That Ever Was | -1.35 | -23.23 | -19.3 | 12 |
18 | If I Can Help Somebody (Arr. for Vocals and Piano by T. and W. Liverman) | -2.88 | -23.83 | -20.4 | 13 |