Discography

Posthumous Songs of Alexander Zemlinsky Centaur Records CRC 3843, released 2020 Steven Kimbrough, Baritone; Dalton Baldwin, Piano Songs from the period 1889 to 1909. Young Zemlinsky begins to hone his skills with settings of texts by Eichendorf, Heine, Liliencron, Dehmel, and others.

Jugendlieder (Early Songs) of Alban Berg Centaur Records CRC 3842 released 2019 Steven Kimbrough, Baritone; Dalton Baldwin, Piano; Margaret Jackson, Soprano; The songs on this album are from volume 3 of Berg's Jugendlieder published in 2015 by Universal Edition AG in Vienna and edited by Christopher Hailey, who says, "These are gems in the rough . . . and all shot through with flashes of genius."

River Songs from North Americam, Ireland, & Scotland Centaur Records CRC 3853 Steven Kmbrough, Baritone; Dalton Baldwin, Piano; Maureen Kelly, Flute Kimbrough and Baldwin first collaborated on American song with the album Songs of the Wild West. The songs on this album focus on river themes in four categories: folk songs, musical theater, and classical art songs, including settings by Copland, Ives, Foster, Weill, and Korngold.

Shakespeare Songs: 17th to 21st Century Composers with Korngold's Settings Arabersque Recordings Z6901 Steven Kimbrough, Baritone; Courtney Budd, Soprano; Dalton Baldwin, Piano; Mark Terwilliger, Guitar This album includes songs from Shakespeare's plays and songs based on excerpts from his plays by earlier composers, e.g. Schubert, Purcell, and modern composers, e.g.Arthur Sullivan, Erich Korngold, and Mary K. Jackson. Many songs come from Charles Vincent's Fifty Shakespeare Songs.

Michelangelo Cycle and Selected Songs of Erich Jacques Wolff Arabesque Records CD 6853 . Steven Kimbrough, Baritone; Dalton Baldwin, Piano This album is released in honor of the 100th anniversary of Wolff's death (d. 1913). Without the attention to song tradition in the USA, composer Erich J. Wolff would be forgotten. Praised by Johannes Brahams, these songs indicate in part why he did.

Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) German Folk Songs Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) German Folk Songs VMS 197 Musical Treasures; Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Erich Becht, orchestra This recording (The Seasons) includes German folk songs for spring, summer, winter, and fall, as well as the world premiere of the song "Wintertraum" by Steven Kimbrough and Erich Becht and the famous song "The Last Rose of Summer."

Christmas Lullabies from Around the World Arabesque Records CD 6845 Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Mary K. Jackson, piano On this album, “Christmas Lullabies,” Kimbrough brings together an exquisite group of songs from Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Scotland, Spain, and the USA.

The Life of Christ in Song On August 26, 2011, the program on this recording was presented by Stevern Kimbrough at Kampong Kapor Methodist Church in Singapore honoring the Rev. Dr. Kang Ho Soon. In the selections on the program many authors and composers set to music various events in the life of Christ.

Sacred Songs of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Arabesque Records CD Z6821: Steven Kimbrough, baritone, accompanied on the organ and harpsichord by Wolfgang Schmid and cellist Andreas Kreisel, performs nineteen of the Johann Sebastian Bach settings and arrangements of diverse German-language texts from the 1736 songbook of Georg Christian Schemelli (b.1676?–1762).

The Wonder of Christmas GMMP Music #0701, released in 2010 Steven Kimbrough, baritone includes lively and inspiring performances of new and familiar carols from Europe, North America, and the Caribbean Region with a variety of music ensembles.

Christmas on Broadway Arabesque Y2004 Baritone Steven Kimbrough is featured on one of the first albums of Christmas songs from Broadway shows to be released.under the artistic director of Broadway conductor Jack Lee with the exciting and innovative arrangements of John Dryman: "We Need a Little Christmas," "Christmas in Manhattan," "Christmas Child," "Dear Mr. Santa Claus," et al.

Charles Wesley: Sacred and Secular Songs VMS 618 Musical Treasures Staven Kimbrough, baritone, Dalton Baldwin, piano. Many of Charles Wesley's known sacred hymns, "Hark! The Herald Angels are included here with new arreangements. But poems he wrote to entertain his children are not known and are presented here is a delightful song cycle by Mary K. Jackson.

Korngold Hollywood Songbook VMS 159 Musical Treasures Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Courtnay Budd, soprano; Dalton Baldwin, piano. Songs by Erich W. Korngold from films and the operetta "The Silent Serenade" were given to Kimbrough by Korngold's son, George, and some are recorded here for the first time.

Kurt Weill: This is the Life and other unrecorded songs

Arabesque Records Z6579: Steven Kimbrough, baritone, Dalton Baldwin, piano

This album once again proves Kimbrough as one of the foremost interpreters of forgotten and undiscovered song literature. Here are early songs from Weill;s study under Busoni and later songs, e.g., settings of Walt Whitman texts, which demonstrate Weill's amazing ability to make culturally sensitive shifts in his music.

Sweet Singer: Selections from a Musical Drama about Charles Wesley

Musical Texts: Charles Wesley Steven Kimbrough, baritone; John Innes and Timothy E. Kimbrough, p iano. Composers: diverse, including G. F. Handel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Many well-known hymns of Wesley are included, as well as lesser known ones with new arrangements and compositions

Auf dem Meere meiner Seele: Alexander Zemlinsky Lieder

Acanta/Pilz CD 43509 Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Cord Garben, piano. At the time of this recording in 1983, many of the songs on this album had not been recorded. This was one of Kimbrough's early efforts to record forgotten and undiscovered song literature, musch of which had been forbidden by the Nazis. Some of the Zemlinsky songs are recorded here for the first time.

Lieder (Songs) by Eric Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) Acanta/Pilz CD 43539 Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Dalton Baldwin, piano With the release of his recoerding of Frank Schreker songs, Kimbrough became an apologist for the song literature of many distinguished composers effaced by the Third Reich. This album demonstates his special gift for the nuance of German art song.

Lieder (Songs) by Wilhelm Kienzl

Koch/Schwann CD 314020 Steven Kimbrough (baritone); Dalton Baldwin (klavier, piano) Kimbrough discovered over 400 hundred published songs of Kienzl, known for his folk opera Der Evangelimann, in a music library in Vienna and decided immediately to recorded some of his extensive and delightful repertory.

Heinrich Marschner: Love Songs and Ballads

Koch/Schwann CD 3-6742-2 Marschner became known for the success of his operas in Dresden and became Kapellmeister in Hanover, where his importance as a composer was confirmed with his opera Hans Heiling. However, with the strong impact of the works of Meyerbeer and Wagner, his works struggled to have great influence. He composed over 400 songs of which the ballads and romantic and humerous ones certainly deserve a place with the best of Germany's composers. 28 are performed here.

Songs of Rossini

Areabesque CD Z6623
Steven Kimbrough (baritone), Arleen Auge (soprano), Jennifer Larmore (mezzo soprano), John Aler (tenor), Dalton Baldwin (piano) Rossini, who composed over thirty operas, wrote that he did not wish to leave the public nothing, so he hoped they would discover his songs for voice and piano. These songs are from the volumes of songs published by the Rossini Pesaro Foundation.

Lieder (Songs) by Korngold, Schreker, Schönberg, and Weigl

(Koch/Schwann CD 3-1094-2)

Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Dalton Baldwin, piano

Composers: Erich W. Korngold, Franz Schreker, Arnold Schönberg, and Karl Weigl This is another album by Kimbrough of songs by composers who were deeply threatened by the Third Reich. They are indeed worthy of being performed and heard.

Happy End by Kurt Weill (The First Complete Recording)

Capriccio 60015-1

A Songspiel by Dorothy Lane

Performers: Gabrielle Ramm, Walter Raffeiner, Karin Ploog, Steven Kimbrough

Kurt Weill on Broadway Koch/Schwann CD 3-1416-2 Steven Kimbrough with the Cologne Radio Orchestra conducted by Victor Symonette. Here are songs from a number of Weill's Broadway successes. Of particular interest are two songs "The Bachelor Song" and 'The Westpointer Song" though fully orchestrated by Weill were never used and are performed her with orchestrea for the first time,

Classics From Hollywood to Broadway (Songs by Robert Wright amd George Forrest)

Koch/Schwann CD 3-1064-2 Steven Kimbrough (baritone) and Melanie Holliday (soprano) with Hessian Radio Orchestra sing songs from Kismet, Song of Norway, The Great Waltz, I Married an Angel, et al. The songs include "Stranger in Paradise," "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads," and many more.

God Be in My Heart, 20th Century Sacred Solos and Duets

GBGMusik CDI-021

Four singers—Robin Fisher (soprano), Cynthia Sanner (mezzo soprano), Richard Kennedy (tenor) and Steven Kimbrough (baritone) performs sacred songs by twentieth and twenty-first century composers such as Albert Hay Mallotte, Florence B. Price, Aaron Copland, Lee Hoiby, Charles ives, Mary K. Jackson, et al.

FAITH•HOPE•LOVE: Songs for the New Millenium

GBGMusik CDI-013

This recording was a part of a global music program with old and new songs and old and new composers from Latin America, Singapore, Russia, Sweden, England, and the USA. The instrumentation varies from solo piano accompaniment to an instrumental ensemble for Tango for music that is lively and inspiration with a vocal ensemble and Steven Kimbrough as soloist.

Ich steh an deiner Krippern hier (I Stand Before Your Manger) RM 0379 Steven Kimbrough, baritone with arrangements and music ensemble by Dieter Reith including the Munich Voices. These are well known and new songs for Advent and Christmas. The title of the album is Paul Gerhardt's text sung to a melody by J. S. Bach. Some songs appear her for the very first time.

Songs of the Wild West (The Art of American Song)

VMS CD 126 Musical Treasures

Steven Kimbrough, baritone; Dalton Baldwin, piano; John Darnall,guitar Familiar songs of the west composed and arranged by David Guion, Oscar Fox, Mary K. Jackson, and others. "Home on the Range," "The Old Chisholm Trail," and many more.

Global Praise song books: Kimbrough has been a pioneer in the gathering and publishing of global songs for Christian worship. He founded GBGMusik and the Global Praise Program of the General Board of Global Ministries and has published numerous books of songs from around the world and has produced many accompanying CD recordings.