More Spirituals from Marian Anderson

This is a companion to a post on my main blog that presents a Marian Anderson 10-inch LP of spirituals dating from 1952.

Here we have an EP that brings together four additional spirituals that Miss Anderson recorded for Victor in May 1947.

As with the LP, the singing here is magnificent, and the identification with the material is total. The contralto was in all ways a phenomenon.

As usual, Miss Anderson's pianist is Franz Rupp, who accompanied her from 1940 until her 1964 retirement.

The sound from RCA's New York Studio No. 2 is very good.

Marian Anderson and Franz Rupp