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Virgil Thomson: Heaven is Music

1 CD / Albany Records / 2010-02-09

Works: Virgil Thomson: De profundis; Tribulationes civitatum, for chorus; O My Deir Hert, carol for chorus; Welcome to the New Year, for 2-part children's chorus & piano; The Holly and the Ivy, a Carol of t...
Performers: Greene, Katherine; Hartman, Steven; Jolles, Susan [Harp]; Mulvaney, Thomas [Percussion]; Rees, Rosalind; Vosatka, Steven
Conductors: Smith, Gregg

The story of the wide-eyed lad from Kansas City who became the toast of Paris via Harvard, one of America's most influential music critics from...continue...

Harvard Glee Club - Randall Thompson, John Harbison, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2007-12-01

Works: Randall Thompson: Frostiana, cycle for chorus & piano (or orchestra); Quis multa gracilis, for chorus; Charles Fussell: A Walt Whitman Sampler, for chorus; John Harbison: Nunc Dimittis, for male chor...

2008 will mark the 150th anniversary of the internationally renowned Harvard Glee Club, the oldest college chorus in America. Under the direction of Jameson Marvin...continue...

Rider on the Plains - Thomson, Fussell / Feldman

1 Super Audio CD / Albany Records / 2006-10-01

Works: Virgil Thomson: Concerto for Cello; Four Portraits, for cello & piano (arranged by Luigi Silva); Etude for Cello and Piano; Charles Fussell: Right River, variations for cello & string orchestra; Ball...
Performers: Feldman, Emmanuel; Phinney, Joy Cline
Conductors: Gambil, Paul; Wyner, Susan Davenny
Ensemble: ; New England String Ensemble

This is undoubtedly the first commercial recording of the Virgil Thomson Cello Concerto (whose first movement provides the title for this disc) since the classic...continue...

New Waltzes for Piano / Eric Moe

1 CD / Albany Records / 2004-11-01

Works: Hayes Biggs: Susan's Waltz (Valse sentimentale), for piano; Wayne Peterson: Valse Subliminale, for piano; Robert Helps: Valse Mirage for piano; Andrew Imbrie: Waltz for piano, for piano; Eric Moe: Pu...
Performers: Moe, Eric [Composer]

Lopatnikoff, Helps, Thomson, Kurka: Works / Albany Symphony

1 Super Audio CD / Albany Records / 2003-07-01

Works: Nikolai Lopatnikoff: Festival Overture, Op. 40; Robert Helps: Concerto no 2, for piano & orchestra; Virgil Thomson: Filling Station, ballet; Robert Kurka: Symphony no 2, Op. 24
Performers: Feinberg, Alan [Piano]
Conductors: Miller, David A.
Ensemble: Albany Symphony Orchestra

Nothing Divine is Mundane - Thomson: Songs / Siebert, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 1997-12-01

Works: Virgil Thomson: Preciosilla, song for voice & piano; Susie Asado; La Belle en dormant, song cycle for voice & piano; Stabat mater; Five Songs from William Blake, for baritone & piano; Four Songs to P...
Performers: Bush, Phillip; Ohrenstein, Dora; Sharp, William [Baritone Vocal]; Siebert, Glenn

"Thomson's songs, like the many character pices for piano that he wrote throughout his life, show his range as a composer better than his most...continue...

Thomson: Symphony no 2, etc / James Bolle, Budapest Symphony

1 CD / Albany Records / 1995-04-08

Works: Virgil Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune ("Symphony no 1"); Symphony no 2; Lord Byron, opera; From Byron's Don Juan, for tenor & orchestra; A Solemn Music, for orchestra; A Joyful Fugue, for orchestra
Performers: Hill, Martyn
Conductors: Bolle, James
Ensemble: Budapest Symphony Orchestra; Monadnock Festival Orchestra

Paul Sperry Sings Romantic American Songs

1 CD / Albany Records / 1991-05-01

Works: Richard Hundley: Ballad on Queen Anne's Death, for voice & piano; Bartholomew Green, for voice & piano; Come Ready and See Me, for voice & piano; Sweet Suffolk Owl, for voice & piano; Spring, for voi...
Performers: Sperry, Paul [Tenor (Vocal)]; Vallecillo, Irma