Come to the river : an early American gathering.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Apollo's Fire (Musical group), performer.

Contributor:

Sorrell, Jeannette, conductor, arranger, author of introduction.

Series:

Naxos Music Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--United States.

Folk music.

United States.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Other Title:

Early American gathering

Place of Publication:

[United Kingdom] : Avie, [2011]

Language Note:

Sung in English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Contents:

Part I. Appalacian wagon train. Appalachian barn dance (instrumental): Swinging on a gate

Give the fiddler a dram / trad. New England / Appalachian fiddle tunes ; arr. Sorrell (2:23)

Nobody but the baby / trad. Southern lullaby, collected by Alan Lomax ; arr. Sorrell (2:00)

Hold on / Kentucky spiritual, collected by Cecil Sharp ; arr. Sorrell (2:28)

The fox went out on a chilly night text: trad. Elizabethan & Appalachian; melody by Custer LaRue (2:22)

Willie, prithee goe to bed / Thomas Ravenscroft, 1609; trad. New England/Appalachian ; arr. Sorrell (2:20)

Ways of the world/Dusty Miller / trad. Appalachian ; arr. Bergmann/Schiffer (2:58)

Part II. Love & death. The three ravens / Ravenscroft, 1610 ; trad. New England/Appalachian ; arr. Sorrell (8:33)

Lark in the morning medley / trad. Irish ; arr. Stewart (4:24)

Old Virginny / trad. Southern Appalachian, collected by Jean Ritchie ; arr. Sorrell (2:57)

The girl who broke my heart / trad. Southern ; arr. Schiffer (2:24)

Wild Bill Jones / trad. Appalachian/Kentucky ballad ; arr. Sorrell/Jones (3:50)

Part III. Revival meeting. Wayfaring stranger / The Kentucky Harmony, 1816 (titled Judgement) ; arr. Sorrell (3:49)

Glory in the meeting house / trad. Kentucky fiddle tune ; arr. Bergmann/Sorrell/Schiffer (3:20)

Return again/Saviour, visit Thy plantation / The Sacred Harp, 1844 (3:02)

What wondrous love is this / The Sacred Harp, 1844 ; arr. Sorrell (4:29)

Dances from New England & Ireland. The Rakes of Kildare ; Langstrom's Pony ; The kitchen girl ; The gravel walk ; Over the Isles to America (4:41)

Morning trumpet/Oh when shall I see Jesus / The Southern Harmony, 1835 (3:45)

Down in the river to pray / trad. Southern folk hymn (3:29)

Bonus track. Old Joe Clark (Appalachian barn dance-encore version) / Southern fiddle tune & breakdown dance ; arr. Sorrell (2:27).

Participant:

Apollo's Fire (Sandra Simon, Abigail Haynes Lennox, Scott Mello, Paul Shipper, vocals ; Tina Bergmann, hammered dulcimer ; Rachel Jones, violin/fiddle ; René Schiffer, violoncello ; Gary Stewart, historical guitar, banjo ; Kathie Stewart, wooden flutes, penny whistle ; Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord).

Notes:

Recorded in June 2009 and June 2010 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Performed on period instruments.

"Conceived & arranged by Jeannette Sorrell"--P. [2] of insert.

Description based on hard copy version record.

Other Format:

Source record: Apollo's Fire (Musical group). Come to the river.

OCLC:

840347945

Publisher Number:

GBELX1103875

GBELX1103876

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AV2205 Avie Records

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