CDs with: Thomson, Virgil

3 pictures : for orchestra ; 3 portraits : for orchestra ; 4 Blake songs / Virgil Thomson. 3 Jewish poems / Ernest Bloch.

3 pictures. The Seine at night (7:51) ; Wheat field at noon (6:02) ; Sea piece with birds (4:37) 3 portraits. Bugles and birds (2:05) ; The tango lullaby (2:05) ; The fugue (2:33) 4 Blake songs. The divine image (2:33) ; Tiger! tiger! (2:45) ; The land of dreams (3:05) ; And did those feet (2:59) / V. Thompson -- 3 Jewish poems. Danse (7:24) ; Rite (6:23) ; Cortege funebre (8:46) / E. Bloch.

CD 832

American brass music

From the steeples and the mountains / Charles Ives (4:12) -- Mutations from Bach / Samuel Barber (5:33) -- Chorale for organ and brass / Roy Harris (12:41) -- Family portrait / Virgil Thomson (11:17) -- Grinnell fanfare (3:01) ; Tall tale (4:12) ; Hymn and fuguing tune : no. 12 (4:18) ; Rondo (4:36) / Henry Cowell -- Brass sextet / Philip Glass (7:27) -- Angels / Carl Ruggles (2:57) -- A fantasy about Purcell's Fantasia upon one note / Elliott Carter (3:08) -- Processional : Let there be light / Charles Ives (2:32).

CD 1580

American organ music

Three voluntaries / Thomson (9:36) -- Requiem for "The Challenger" / Ashdown (16:38) -- Song of David / Persichetti (5:44) -- Pipedreams / Sokolov (13:30) -- Blessings / Pinkham (14:25).

CD 2033

An American celebration, vol. 1.

Fanfare for the common man / Aaron Copland -- Melpomene, dramatic overture / George Whitefield Chadwick -- Suite no. 2 in E minor : Indian / Edward MacDowell -- The white peacock, op. 7, no. 1 / Charles Tomlinson Griffes -- A victory ball : fantasy for orchestra / Ernest Schelling -- Three places in New England / Charles Ives -- Music for the theatre / Aaron Copland -- Intégrales / Edgard Varèse -- Memories of my childhood : life in a Russian village / Charles Martin Loeffler -- Concerto grosso no. 1 : for string orchestra with piano obbligato / Ernest Bloch -- An American in Paris / George Gershwin -- Symphony no. 2, op. 30 : Romantic / Howard Hanson -- Four saints in three acts : Acts III and IV (abridged) / Virgil Thomson -- El salón México / Aaron Copland -- Sun-treader / Carl Ruggles -- Prairie journal / Aaron Copland -- Third symphony / Roy Harris -- Essay no. 1 / Samuel Barber -- The devil and Daniel Webster : suite / Bernard Herrmann -- Old California / William Grant Still -- Serenade : for solo flute, harp, and strings / Howard Hanson -- Lincoln portrait / Aaron Copland -- Appalachian spring : suite / Aaron Copland -- Symphony no. 2, op. 35 / Paul Creston -- Hymn and fuguing tune no. 2 / Henry Cowell -- Symphony no. 6 / William Schuman.

CD 2413

Contemporary American organ music.

Three voluntaries / Thomson (9:36) -- Requiem for "The Challenger" / Ashdown (16:38) -- Song of David / Persichetti (5:44) -- Pipedreams / Sokolov (13:30) -- Blessings / Pinkham (14:25).

CD 2033

From the steeples and the mountains : American brass music.

From the steeples and the mountains / Charles Ives (4:12) -- Mutations from Bach / Samuel Barber (5:33) -- Chorale for organ and brass / Roy Harris (12:41) -- Family portrait / Virgil Thomson (11:17) -- Grinnell fanfare (3:01) ; Tall tale (4:12) ; Hymn and fuguing tune : no. 12 (4:18) ; Rondo (4:36) / Henry Cowell -- Brass sextet / Philip Glass (7:27) -- Angels / Carl Ruggles (2:57) -- A fantasy about Purcell's Fantasia upon one note / Elliott Carter (3:08) -- Processional : Let there be light / Charles Ives (2:32).

CD 1580

Pictures

3 pictures. The Seine at night (7:51) ; Wheat field at noon (6:02) ; Sea piece with birds (4:37) 3 portraits. Bugles and birds (2:05) ; The tango lullaby (2:05) ; The fugue (2:33) 4 Blake songs. The divine image (2:33) ; Tiger! tiger! (2:45) ; The land of dreams (3:05) ; And did those feet (2:59) / V. Thompson -- 3 Jewish poems. Danse (7:24) ; Rite (6:23) ; Cortege funebre (8:46) / E. Bloch.

CD 832

Sure on this shining night : 20th-century romantic songs of America.

The children / Theodore Chanler -- The year's at the spring / Mrs. H.H.A. Beach -- When stars are in the quiet skies / G.W. Chadwick -- Orpheus with his lute / William Schuman -- Rose Marie / Rudolf Friml -- The sideshow / Charles Ives -- Song to the witch of The Cloisters / John Corigliano -- Sure on this shining night / Samuel Barber -- Sigh no more, ladies / Virgil Thomson -- Come away, death / Erich Korngold -- On hearing "The last rose of summer" ; Echo / Paul Hindemith -- If I could tell you / Idabelle Firestone -- The collection / Charles Ives -- The Lord's prayer / Albert Hay Malotte -- Nature, the gentlest mother / Aaron Copland -- The tiger / Eric Ewazen -- Never more will the wind / William Bolcom -- Little elegy / Ned Rorem -- One alone / Sigmund Romberg -- Do not go, my love / Richard Hageman -- To a stranger / Marc Marder -- When I have sung my songs / Ernest Charles -- These, my Ophelia / Theodore Chanler -- An old song re-sung / Charles T. Griffes -- Ah! sweet mystery of life / Victor Herbert -- June night / Horatio Parker -- Triolet / John Musto.

CD 2348

Three pictures

3 pictures. The Seine at night (7:51) ; Wheat field at noon (6:02) ; Sea piece with birds (4:37) 3 portraits. Bugles and birds (2:05) ; The tango lullaby (2:05) ; The fugue (2:33) 4 Blake songs. The divine image (2:33) ; Tiger! tiger! (2:45) ; The land of dreams (3:05) ; And did those feet (2:59) / V. Thompson -- 3 Jewish poems. Danse (7:24) ; Rite (6:23) ; Cortege funebre (8:46) / E. Bloch.

CD 832

Works. Selections

3 pictures. The Seine at night (7:51) ; Wheat field at noon (6:02) ; Sea piece with birds (4:37) 3 portraits. Bugles and birds (2:05) ; The tango lullaby (2:05) ; The fugue (2:33) 4 Blake songs. The divine image (2:33) ; Tiger! tiger! (2:45) ; The land of dreams (3:05) ; And did those feet (2:59) / V. Thompson -- 3 Jewish poems. Danse (7:24) ; Rite (6:23) ; Cortege funebre (8:46) / E. Bloch.

CD 832