As an actor, singer, linguist and political thinker, Paul Robeson was one of the most accomplished Black men in America. A newly-released box set will finally give him the attention his work deserves.

Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings is a lavish 14CD box set that serves at the definitive account of Robeson on record: a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance whose expressive bass-baritone preserved scores of American spirituals and folk songs, and a versatile actor whose stage presence anchored the most successful Broadway production of a William Shakespeare play. The set is grouped into five "categories" of his recordings:

• A disc of recordings primarily released by the Victor label in the mid-to-late '20s, newly restored or remastered with five previously unreleased recordings
• Seven discs of songs recorded for the U.K. label His Master's Voice between 1928 and 1939 and released on 78 RPM singles
• Two newly remastered discs of material cut for Columbia Records, including four early "albums" released on 78 RPM discs plus non-album material, including a previously unreleased alternate take
• Two historic concerts recorded in 1958 but not heard by record buyers until the early '70s - now fully presented with 33 unreleased tracks
• A two-disc restoration of Robeson's legendary appearance in Shakespeare's Othello, recorded in 1944 by Columbia as their first album of a stage production

All of Robeson's American recordings have been painstakingly remastered and restored from original sources. An accompanying 160-page book includes a wealth of photos, papers and reproductions from Robeson's family trust, the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and the Sony Music archives; plus new essays by Columbia University professor Shana L. Redmond and Robeson's granddaughter Susan, and a full discography.

From the opening notes of Robeson's first two recordings - versions of the spirituals "Steal Away" and "Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord?)" issued in 1925 - it was clear that this was no mere jazz singer or ordinary interpreter. Robeson, all of 25 at the time, had already accomplished much in a racially-divided nation. The son of a former slave born in Princeton, NJ in 1898, Paul Robeson had already graduated from Rutgers as valedictorian and an All-American football player, played in the NFL, earned a law degree from Columbia University and graced stages in both New York and England. His turn in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones made him an overnight sensation. Before long, he would record nearly two dozen spirituals for Victor Records and soon starred in a British production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat. That play's showstopper "Ol' Man River" remains one of Robeson's signature songs, recorded by him many times through his storied career.

Even as he graduated to filmed versions of The Emperor Jones and Show Boat - and became one of the first to record in EMI's London recording facility on Abbey Road - the irony of receiving wealth and acclaim but not equal rights in his birth country was not lost on Robeson. In Europe, he continued his education at the University of London, studying phonetics and Swahili and immersing himself in the history of African culture; traveling throughout Eurasia, he was struck by his fair treatment in the Soviet Union, and committed much of the rest of his life to becoming an outspoken anti-fascist and sympathizer to communism when not performing.

And perform he still did: in 1943, more than a decade after doing so in the West End in London, Robeson delivered a command performance of the title character from William Shakespeare's Othello at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway; with 296 performances alongside real-life couple Uta Hagen and José Ferrer as Othello's wife Desdemona and the villainous Iago, it is still the longest-running play by The Bard to grace a Broadway stage. It was also the first stage production to receive a release on record from the storied Columbia label, who recorded the play for a series of 78 RPM discs packaged in a photo album-styled, bound package. It was one of several such releases by Robeson Columbia would issue in the '40s, including Songs of Free Men (1943), Spirituals (1946), A Robeson Recital of Popular Favorites (1947) and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (1949).

But challenging times were ahead for Robeson. Despite visible support for the Allies in World War II - in his view, the only path forward for Black equality in America - after the war ended, his rhetoric saw him blacklisted and subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Commission, and his passport revoked. He never backed down from the pressure over his beliefs - in the '50s, he and activist W.E.B. Du Bois co-founded the outspoken newspaper Freedom - and once his passport was finally reinstated in 1958, he immediately left America to perform a series of well-received concerts; one such engagement at Royal Albert Hall that same year is one of the live shows included in Voice of Freedom. (The other took place months before, at a New York parish of the historically Black AME Zion Church, which Robeson and his father were both members of.)

Sadly, Robeson never regained his stature over the political fallout. Health issues led to his essential retirement by the mid-'60s; he died in 1976, a few months before he turned 78. For all his impact and posthumous honors - from a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award to commemorations from the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, NJ to the Washington Heights building he once resided in - many of these recordings were only fleetingly in print. That oversight is corrected in vivid detail on Voice of Freedom, an essential musical document of one of the nation's most extraordinary talents.

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Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV, and Victor Recordings (Sony Classical 19439 97745-2, 2024) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

* previously unreleased

Disc 1: The Early Victor and RCA Recordings 1925-1940

1. Were You There?
2. Steal Away
3. Water Boy *
4. Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho
5. Bye and Bye
6. Water Boy
7. Li'l Gal
8. I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound *
9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
10. On Ma Journey
11. Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen
12. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
13. Down de Lover's Lane *
14. Hear, de Lam's A-Cryin'
15. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
16. Deep River
17. I'm Goin' to Tell God All O' My Troubles
18. I Got a Home in-a Dat Rock
19. Witness
20. Ol' Man River
21. Ballad for Americans
22. I Got a Home in-a Dat Rock *
23. Witness *

Tracks 1-2 released as Victor 78 RPM 10" 19742, 1925
Tracks 4-5 released as Victor 78 RPM 10" 19743, 1925
Tracks 6-7 released as Victor 78 RPM 10" 19824, 1926
Tracks 9-10 released as Victor 78 RPM 10" 20013, 1926
Tracks 11-12 released as Victor 78 RPM 10" 20068, 1926
Tracks 14-15 released as Victor 78 RPM 10" 20604, 1927
Tracks 16-17 released as Victor 78 RPM 10" 20793, 1927
Tracks 18-19 released as Victor 78 RPM 10" 21109, 1928
Track 20 released on Victor 78 RPM 12" 35912, 1928
Track 21 released as RCA Victor 78 RPM double 10" P-20, 1940

Disc 2: The HMV Recordings 1928-1929

1. Ol' Man River
2. Since You Went Away (Seems Lak to Me)
3. Down de Lover's Lane
4. Scandalize My Name
5. Sinner, Pleas Doan' Let Dis Harves' Pass
6. Weepin' Mary
7. I Want to Be Ready
8. My Lord, What a Mornin'
9. De Li'l Piccaninny's Gone to Sleep
10. Git on Board, Li'l Children
11. Dere's No Hidin' Place
12. Plantation Songs - Part 1
13. Plantation Songs - Part 2
14. Oh! Rock Me, Julie
15. Oh, Didn't It Rain
16. Mammy
17. Roll Away, Clouds
18. Sonny Boy
19. Little Pal
20. The Lonesome Road
21. Just Keepin' On
22. Mighty Lak' a Rose
23. Mammy is Gone

Track 1 released on Brunswick 78 RPM 12" BR-20114, date unknown
Tracks 2-3 released as HMV 78 PRM 10" B-2777, 1928
Tracks 4-5 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-2771, 1928
Tracks 6-8 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-2897, 1929
Tracks 9 and 18 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-2948, 1929
Tracks 10-11 and 14-15 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3033, 1929
Tracks 12-13 released as HMV 78 RPM 12" C-1585, 1928
Tracks 16-17 released as HMV 78 RPM 12" C-1591, 1929
Tracks 19-20 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3146, 1929
Tracks 21-22 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3199, 1930
Track 23 released on HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3663, 1931

Disc 3: The HMV Recordings, 1930-1931

1. Hail the Crown
2. Exhortation
3. I Stood on de RIbber Jordan/Peter Go Ring Dem Bells
4. Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go)
5. High Water
6. Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
7. Poor Old Joe
8. My Old Kentucky Home
9. Ol' Man River
10. River Stay 'Way from My Door
11. Rockin' Chair
12. Medley of Spirituals
13. My Heart is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
14. The Folks I Used to Know
15. Mary Had a Baby (Yes, Lord)
16. Li'l Gal
17. Bear de Burden/All God's Chillun Got Wings
18. That's Why Darkies Were Born
19. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
20. Seekin'

Tracks 1-2 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3409, 1930
Tracks 3-4 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3381, 1930
Track 5 released on HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3663, 1931
Tracks 6-7 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3664, 1930
Tracks 8-9 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3653, 1930
Tracks 10-11 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-3956, 1931
Track 12 released on HMV 78 RPM 12" C-2287, 1932
Tracks 13-14 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4052, 1932
Tracks 15 and 17 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4336, 1933
Tracks 16 and 20 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4093, 1932
Tracks 18-19 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4058, 1932

Disc 4: The HMV Recordings 1932-1933

1. Nearer, My God, to Thee
2. There is a Green Hill Far Away
3. Mah Lindy Lou
4. Ma Curly-Headed Babby
5. Pilgrim's Song
6. Roll de Ole Chariot Along
7. Since You Went Away (Seems Lak to Me)
8. Wid de Moon, Moon, Moon
9. Got the South in My Soul
10. Hush-a-Bye Lullaby
11. Round the Bend of the Road
12. Take Me Away from the River
13. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
14. On Ma Journey
15. Bye and Bye (I'm Goin' to Lay Down Dis Heavy Load)
16. Were You There?
17. Swing Along!
18. Piccaninny Shoes
19. In a Narrow Street
20. Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
21. Lazy Bones
22. Blue Prelude
23. Paul Robeson Medley No. 1 - Part 1
24. Paul Robeson Medley No. 1 - Part 2

Tracks 1-2 released as HMV 78 RPM 12" C-2517, 1933
Tracks 3-4 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4309, 1932
Tracks 5-6 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4421, 1933
Tracks 7-8 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4396, 1933
Tracks 9-10 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4354, 1933
Tracks 11-12 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4352, 1933
Tracks 13-14 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8372, 1935
Tracks 15-16 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4480, 1933
Tracks 17 and 22 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8018, 1933
Tracks 18-19 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-4499, 1933
Tracks 20-21 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8010, 1933
Tracks 23-24 released as HMV 78 RPM 12" C-2621, 1933

Disc 5: The HMV Recordings 1933-1936

1. A Fat Li'l' Feller wid His Mammy's Eyes
2. Short'nin' Bread
3. Snowball
4. Water Boy
5. Doan' You Cry, Ma Honey
6. Steal Away
7. Scarecrow (Scared t' Go t' Bed)
8. Wagon Wheels
9. So Shy
10. Piccaninny Slumber Song (Little Alabama Coon)
11. St. Louis Blues
12. Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy
13. Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
14. I Ain't Lazy - I'm Just Dreamin'
15. The Banjo Song
16. Paul Robeson Medley No. 2
17. Love Song (from the film Sanders of the River)
18. Congo Lullaby (from the film Sanders of the River)
19. Canoe Song (from the film Sanders of the River)
20. Killing Song (from the film Sanders of the River)
21. Shenandoah
22. Jes' Mah Song
23. De Ole Ark's A-Movering
24. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
25. Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho

Tracks 1-3 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8060, 1933
Tracks 4 and 6 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8103, 1934
Tracks 5 and 10 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8156, 1934
Tracks 7 and 9 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8132, 1934
Tracks 8 and 12 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8135, 1934
Tracks 11 and 15 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8219, 1934
Tracks 13-14 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8202, 1934
Track 16 released on HMV 78 RPM 12" C-2708, 1934
Tracks 17 and 19 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8316, 1935
Tracks 18 and 20 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8315, 1935
Tracks 21-22 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8438, 1936
Tracks 23-25 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8478, 1937

Disc 6: The HMV Recordings 1936-1937

1. Honey, Dat's All
2. Gloomy Sunday
3. Ol' Man River (from the film Show Boat)
4. Ah Still Suits Me (from the film Show Boat)
5. Sleepy River (from the film The Song of Freedom)
6. Lonely Road (from the film The Song of Freedom)
7. Song of Freedom (from the film The Song of Freedom)
8. The Black Emperor (from the film The Song of Freedom)
9. Mam'selle Marie (from the film The Song of Freedom)
10. Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere (from the film The Song of Freedom)
11. O No, John! (from the film The Song of Freedom)
12. Passing By (from the film The Song of Freedom)
13. Hammer Song (from the film The Song of Freedom)
14. Li'l David (from the film The Song of Freedom)
15. My Way (from the film Jericho)
16. Golden River (from the film Jericho)
17. Ho! Ho! (The Wagon Song) (from the film King Solomon's Mines)
18. Climbing Up (The Mountain Song) (from the film King Solomon's Mines)
19. Lazin' (from the film Big Fella)
20. I Don't Know What's Wrong (from the film Big Fella)
21. Roll Up, Sailorman (from the film Big Fella)
22. You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things (from the film Big Fella)
23. Deep Desert
24. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
25. Minstrel Man
26. The Wanderer

Tracks 1-2 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8423, 1936
Tracks 3-4 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8497, 1936
Tracks 5 and 7 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8482, 1936
Tracks 6 and 8 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8483, 1936
Tracks 9-10 and 13-14 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8550, 1937
Tracks 11-12 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8541, 1937
Tracks 15-16 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8572, 1937
Tracks 17-18 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8586, 1937
Tracks 19 and 22 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" 8-8607, 1937
Tracks 20-21 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8591, 1937
Track 23 released on HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8621, 1937
Tracks 24-26 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8604, 1937

Disc 7: The HMV Recordings 1937-1938

1. Dere's a Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names
2. No More Auction Block
3. Work All de Summer
4. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
5. Silent Night
6. All Through the Night
7. Solitude
8. Mood Indigo
9. Summertime (from Porgy & Bess)
10. It Take a Long Pull to Get There (Oh, I'm A-Goin' Out to the Blackfish Banks) (from Porgy & Bess)
11. It Ain't Necessarily So (from Porgy & Bess)
12. A Woman is a Sometime Thing (from Porgy & Bess)
13. Just A-Wearyin' for You
14. At Dawning (I Love You)
15. Song of the Volga Boatmen
16. An Eriskay Love Lilt
17. Encantadora Maria
18. Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot
19. Every Time I Feel de Spirit
20. Lay Down Late
21. Forgotten
22. David of the White Rock (Dafydd y Garreg Wen)
23. Trees
24. Songs My Mother Taught Me Op. 55/4
25. Loch Lomond
26. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes

Tracks 1 and 3-4 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8637, 1937
Tracks 2 and 17 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8781, 1938
Tracks 5-6 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8668, 1937
Tracks 7-8 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8664, 1937
Tracks 9-10 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8698, 1938
Tracks 11-12 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8711, 1938
Tracks 13-14 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8731, 1938
Tracks 15-16 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8750, 1938
Tracks 18-20 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8813, 1938
Tracks 21-22 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-9149, 1941
Tracks 23-24 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8830, 1938
Tracks 25-26 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8831, 1938

Disc 8: The HMV Recordings 1939

1. Down de Lover's Lane
2. Berceuse Op. 1/5
3. O Thou Silent Night
4. The Little Black Boy (Poem)
5. Dear Old Southland
6. Jerusalem (and Did Those Feet in Ancient Time)
7. The Blind Ploughman
8. The Cobbler's Song
9. Oh, Could I But Express in Song
10. Love At My Heart
11. Nothin'
12. The Rosary
13. A Perfect Day
14. Absent
15. Black Eyes
16. Oh, Promise Me Op. 50
17. Plaisir D'amour
18. Sylvia
19. She is Far from the Land
20. Thora
21. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Op. 3/2
22. Sea Fever
23. Ebenezer (Ton-y-Botel) (from the film The Proud Valley)
24. Land of My Fathers (Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau) (from the film The Proud Valley)
25. Deep River
26. Elijah Op. 70

Tracks 1-2 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8915, 1939
Tracks 3-4 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8918, 1939
Tracks 5 and 11 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-9001, 1940
Tracks 6 and 19 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-9010, 1940
Tracks 7-8 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8977, 1939
Tracks 9 and 15 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8989, 1939
Tracks 10 and 21 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-9281, 1942
Tracks 12-13 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-8988, 1939
Tracks 14 and 22 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-9257, 1942
Tracks 16-17 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-9059, 1940
Tracks 18 and 20 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-9037, 1940
Tracks 23-24 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-9020, 1940
Tracks 25-26 released as HMV 78 RPM 10" B-9024, 1940

Disc 9: The Columbia Masterworks Recordings 1942/1947

1. From Border to Border
2. Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
3. The Purest Kind of Guy
4. Joe Hill
5. Peat Bog Soldiers (Die Moorsoldaten)
6. The Four Insurgent Generals
7. Song of the Plains (Meadowland)
8. Native Land (Shiroka Strana Moya Rodnaya)
9. Balm in Gilead
10. Chassidic Chant
11. Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel
12. Berceuse Op. 1/5
13. Within Four Walls
14. Song of the Plains (Meadowland) *
15. Ol' Man River
16. Ah Still Suits Me
17. Ma Curly-Headed Babby
18. Mah Lindy Lou
19. The House I Live In (That's America to Me)
20. Wagon Wheels
21. Sylvia
22. It Ain't Necessarily So
23. King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)
24. Ol' Man River

Tracks 1-8 released as Songs of Free Men - Columbia Masterworks M-534, 1943
Tracks 9-11 released on Songs of Free Men (Masterworks Heritage Vocal Series) - Sony Classical MHK 63223, 1997
Tracks 12-13 released as Columbia Masterworks 78 RPM 12" 71367-D, 1942
Tracks 15-22 released as A Robeson Recital of Popular Favorites - Columbia Masterworks M-732, 1947
Track 23 released on Okeh 78 RPM 10" 6475, 1941
Track 24 released on Here Comes the Showboat - Columbia C-55, 1946

Disc 10: The Columbia Masterworks Recordings 1945/1947

1. Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go)
2. Balm in Gilead
3. Bye and Bye (I'm Goin' to Lay Down Dis Heavy Load)
4. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
5. John Henry
6. Water Boy
7. Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen
8. Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho
9. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
10. Every Time I Feel de Spirit
11. I Got a Home in-a Dat Rock
12. O Gimme Your Han'
13. No More Auction Block
14. Great Gittin' Up Mornin'
15. Hear, de Lam's A-Cryin'
16. Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot
17. I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound
18. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
19. Poor Wayfarin' Stranger
20. Hammer Song
21. Dere's a Man Goin' 'Round
22. I Know de Lord
23. Git on Board, Li'l Children
24. Li'l David

Tracks 1-8 released as Spirituals - Columbia Masterworks M-610, 1946
Tracks 9-24 released as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Columbia Masterworks M-819, 1949

Disc 11: Live at Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, New York, NY - 6/1/1958

1. Over the Mountains (Love Will Find the Way) *
2. Balm in Gilead *
3. Freedom *
4. A Mighty Fortress is Our God BWV 80 *
5. Ode to Joy *
6. O No, John! *
7. An Eriskay Love Lilt *
8. In a Place Far, Far Away
9. Comments on Languages and Music of Many Lands *
10. Gospodi! Gospodi! Vozzri, Molyu *
11. Othello, The Moor of Venice: Soft You, a Word or Two Before You Go *
12. Introduction *
13. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? *
14. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
15. No More Auction Block
16. Water Boy
17. The Four Insurgent Generals *
18. We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
19. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
20. Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser? (How Does the Czar Live?) *
21. Hush, My Pretty Baby (Duermete, Niño Lindo) *
22. Closing Words *
23. Joe Hill *
24. The House I Live in (That's America to Me)

Tracks 8, 14-16, 18-19 and 24 released on In Live Performance - Columbia Masterworks M 30424, 1971

Disc 12: Live at Royal Albert Hall, London, England - 8/10/1958

1. Balm in Gilead *
2. L'amour de Moi
3. Ode to Joy *
4. The Orphan Girl *
5. Chassidic Chant *
6. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? *
7. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot *
8. Every Time I Feel de Spirit
9. I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound
10. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
11. No More Auction Block *
12. Scandalize My Name *
13. Git on Board, Li'l Children
14. Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser? (How Does the Czar Live?) *
15. An Eriskay Love Lilt *
16. An Eriskay Love Lilt - Encore *
17. Song of the Volga Boatmen
18. Song of the Volga Boatmen - Encore *
19. Water Boy *
20. O No, John! *
21. O Thou Silent Night *
22. Joe Hill
23. Ol' Man River
24. Let the Rail Splitter Awake (Poem) *

Tracks 2, 8-10, 13, 17 and 22-23 released on In Live Performance - Columbia Masterworks M 30424, 1971

Discs 13-14: Shakespeare - Othello: The Moor of Venice (A Tragedy in 5 Acts) (released as Columbia Masterworks M/MM-554, 1944)

1. Act I, Scene 1: Venice, a Street - "Tush! Never Tell Me"
2. Act I, Scene 2: Another Street - "Though in the Trade of War I Have Slain Men"
3. Act I, Scene 3: A Council-chamber - "Here Comes Brabantio and The Valiant Moor"
4. Act II, Scene 1: A Sea-port in Cyprus. An Open Place Near the Quay - "The Moor! I Know His Trumpet"
5. Act II, Scene 3: A Hall in the Castle - "Welcome, Iago, We Must to the Watch"
6. Act III, Scene 3: The Garden of the Castle - "Madam, I'll Take My Leave"

1. Act III, Scene 4: Before the Castle - "Where Should I Lose That Handkerchief, Emilia?"
2. Act IV, Scene 1: Cyprus. Before the Castle - "Will You Think So?"
3. Act IV, Scene 2: A Room in the Castle - "You Have Seen Nothing Then?"
4. Act IV, Scene 3: Another Room in the Castle - "How Goes It Now?"
5. Act V, Scene 2: A Bedchamber in the Castle; Desdemona in Bed Asleep; Light Burning - "It is the Cause"