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Reginald Mobley
Baptiste Trotignon
Cover ALPHA936
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Alpha Classics
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Classical
Code
ALPHA936
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    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

    03:10
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    Were You There?
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Were You There?

    03:48
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    I Got a Robe
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    I Got a Robe

    02:35
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    Why
    Composer(s) Baptiste Trotignon
    Artist(s) Baptiste Trotignon

    Why

    02:29
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    Because
    Composer(s) Florence Price
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Because

    01:58
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    Steal Away
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Steal Away

    03:40
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    Save Me Lord, Save Me
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Save Me Lord, Save Me

    02:05
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    Bright Sparkles in the Churchyard
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Bright Sparkles in the Churchyard

    04:07
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    Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

    03:38
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    Resignation
    Composer(s) Florence Price
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Resignation

    03:23
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    A Great Campmeetin'
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    A Great Campmeetin'

    02:53
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    Sunset
    Composer(s) Florence Price
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Sunset

    02:16
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    My Lord, What a Morning
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    My Lord, What a Morning

    04:13
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    Jean
    Composer(s) Harry Burleigh
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Jean

    03:11
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    By an’ by / There is a Balm in Gilead
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    By an’ by / There is a Balm in Gilead

    04:56
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    I Heard It Through the Grapevine
    Composer(s) Barrett Strong
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    03:08
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    Deep River
    Composer(s) Anonymous
    Artist(s) Reginald Mobley Baptiste Trotignon

    Deep River

    03:47
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Total running time: 55 minutes.

Album information

During the long era when Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were creating the musical canon of Western Europe, the songs of African slaves resounded in the colonies on the other side of the Atlantic, expressing pain and longing, but also joy and the desire for freedom.

The American countertenor Reginald Mobley - a rising figure in baroque music, notably under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner with whom he sings very regularly - and the French pianist Baptiste Trotignon, winner of numerous awards (Victoires du Jazz, Django d'Or) have combined their talents and sensibilities to celebrate these spirituals and the music of Black composers including Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) and Florence Price (1887-1953), whose beautiful transcriptions and melodies blend with Baptiste Trotignon's subtle arrangements of the famous Sometimes I feel like a motherless child or I got a robe... The melody "Because", composed by Florence Price on a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, inspired the title of the album: Because I had loved so hard (...) Because I had loved so vainly... Why this album? Because...

This recording won the 2024 Opus Klassik 'Classics Without Borders' Award and was nominated for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album at the 66th Annual GRAMMY® Awards.

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