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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...

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...

Thomson, Bolcom, Castelnuovo-Tedesco / Judith Clurman, et al

1 CD / New World / 1998-10-01

Works: Virgil Thomson: Hymns from the Old South, for chorus; Four Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion, for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, harp & viola; William Bolcom: The Mask, for chorus, piano & chamber ensemble;...
Performers: Blount, William; Cutler, Sara; Kampmeier, Margaret A.; Schulman, Louise; Verdery, Ben
Conductors: Clurman, Judith
Ensemble: St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble