Joan Baez: Baptism, A Journey Through Our Time (CD-79240): A selection of poetry sung and spoken by Joan Baez to original music by Peter Schickele. Digitally re-mastered with three additional tracks from the original recording sessions. (The original 1968 version of Baptism is also available, but only on LP.)
Credits
- Original music composed and conducted by Peter Schickele
- Selected and edited by Joan Baez
- Conceived and compiled by Maynard Solomon
Track Listing
[1] Old Welsh Song (Henry Treece)
[2] I Saw The Vision Of Armies (Walt Whitman)
[3] Minister of War (translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley)
[4] Song In The Blood (Jacques Prévert)
[5] Casida Of The Lament (Federico García Lorca)
[6] Of The Dark Past (Ecce Puer) (James Joyce)
[7] London (William Blake)
[8] In Guernica (Norman Rosten)
[9] Who Murdered The Minutes (Henry Treece)
[10] Oh, Little Child (Henry Treece)
[11] No Man Is An Iland (John Donne)
[12] from Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (James Joyce)
[13] All The Pretty Little Horses (Negro Lullaby)
[14] Childhood III (Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Louise Varèse)
[15] The Magic Wood (Henry Treece)
[16] Poems From The Japanese (Translated by Kenneth Rexroth)
[17] Colours (Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi)
[18] All In Green Went My Love Riding (e. e. cummings)
[19] Gacela Of The Dark Death (Federico García Lorca, translated by Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili)
[20] The Parable Of The Old Man And The Young (Wilfred Owen)
[21] Evil (Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Norman Cameron)
[22] Epitaph For A Poet (Countee Cullen)
[23] Old Welsh Song (Henry Treece)
*[24] Mystic Numbers: 36. Wedding Song (Henry Treece)
*[25] When The Shy Star Goes Forth In Heaven (James Joyce)
*[26] The Angel (William Blake)
*previously unreleased tracks
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