VA - Lives of the Saints - Portraits in Song with Words by David Hajdu (2025) Hi-Res

Quality: FLAC 24 bit / 96 kHz (Tracks)
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Lives of the Saints - Portraits in Song with Words by David Hajdu
Released: 2025
Style: Jazz
RAR Size: 884 Mb

Tracklist:

1. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - Enchantress of Number (for Ada Lovelace) (06:44)
2. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - Angelina's Cry (for Angelina Napolitano) (03:26)
3. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - I Weathered the Storm (for Lena Horne) (06:19)
4. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - The Seafaring Maiden (for Bessie Hall) (02:44)
5. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - The White Rose (for Sophie Sholl) (04:29)
6. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - Pure Thought (for Hypatia) (04:38)
7. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - Pretty Brilliant (for Hedy Lamar) (03:32)
8. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - The Nanny on Her Day Off (for Vivian Maier) (05:07)
9. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - The Conjurer (for Leonora Carrington) (06:59)
10. Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung & Dave Douglas - Song for My Sister (for Barbara Ann Hajdu) (03:38)

When writer-producer David Hajdu was growing up, he was drawn to a mystical book on his mother’s shelf entitled Lives of the Saints. This was a collection of tales of Catholic saints and their heroic martyrdom. Later in life, Hajdu began to collect his own stories of ordinary individuals who, through their deeds, attained exalted status in his mind, essentially created his own canon of secular saints.

For his new recording, which borrows the same title, Lives of the Saints, Hajdu enlists an assemblage of first-tier composers and performers to tell the stories of ten remarkable people from history, all of whom happen to be women. Women who did extraordinary things but suffered in some ways for what did or what they believed.