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American Classics - Thomson: A Continuum Portrait

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-09-20

Works: Virgil Thomson: Synthetic Waltzes; Songs (4) to Poems of Thomas Campion; Sonata for Violin and Piano; Two by Marianne Moore; Praises and Prayers (5)
Performers: Evans, Rachel; Krakauer, David; Lang, Ellen; Reit, Alyssa; Sachs, Joel; Seltzer, Cheryl; Wu, Mia

Much of Thomson's early music, which comprises setting of Stein's poetry and the 'Synthetic Waltzes', balances modernity and classicism, and the 'Sonata for Violin &...continue...

Sure on This Shining Night / Robert White, Samuel Sanders

1 CD / Hyperion / 1997-04-01

Works: Theodore Chanler: The Children, song for voice & piano (from The Children); These, My Ophelia, for voice & piano; Amy Beach: Browning Songs (3), Op. 44; George Whitefield Chadwick: When stars are in...
Performers: Agee, James; Feeney, Leonard; Hammerstein, Oscar II; Harbach, Otto; Hoffman, William M.; Sanders, Samuel [Piano]; White, Robert

'This is a very charming record' (Gramophone)

'I felt as if I was discovering these songs for the first time' (Soundscapes, Australia)

'A delightful, imaginatively...continue...

Thomson: Early and As Remembered

1 CD / New Albion / 1995-01-01

Works: Virgil Thomson: Prelude, for piano; La Valse grégorienne, song cycle for voice & piano; Preciosilla, song for voice & piano; Madame Dubost chez elle, portrait for piano (9 Portraits, no 1); Clai...
Performers: Boudler, John; Herr, Martha; Kuehn, David; Mikhashoff, Yvar