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Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 - September 30, 1989) was an American composer from Kansas City, Missouri who was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music so often associated with the patriotic compositions of Aaron Copland. Thomson displayed an extraordinary intelligence at an early age. As a child, he befriended Alice Smith, granddaughter of Joseph Smith, foun...read more

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Top Tracks of Virgil Thomson

My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (arr. V. Thomson)
Three Antiphonal Psalms: Psalm 123
At The Beach: AT THE CHELSEA HOTEL
The Plow That Broke The Plains - Suite: Cattle
Three Portraits: Clair Leonard'S Profile
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
A Solemn Music
The River: Finale
At the Beach
Andante
Valse Gregoienne
The Plow That Broke the Plains: Cattle
Allegretto
Four Saints in Three Acts: Prelude: A Narrative of Prepare for Saints
10 Études: No. 10, Ragtime Bass
The Plow that Broke the Plains: Prelude
Three Parision Portraits: Poltergeist: A Portrait Of Hans Arp
The Plow that Broke the Plains
The Plow That Broke The Plains: Pastorale (Grass)
Piano Sonata No. 3 - Bold - Softer - Very Soft And With Accent - Gay And Gettiing Gradually Louder And Gayer - Sustained
Follow your saint
Before Sleeping (txt. Anon.)
Symphony No. 2: Andante
Four New England Portraits: Meditation: A Portait Of Jere Abbott
The Plow That Broke the Plains: The Homesteader
Jone Bowles: Early And As Remebered
Four New England Portraits: Meditation: A Portait Of Josiah Marvel
Pilgrims and Pioneers
There is a garden in her face
Peter Monro Jack: Scottish Memories
I Allegro militaire
Souvenir: A Portrait of Paul Bowles
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I: Tableau I "A Garden at Avila"
Prelude: IN PARIS
Jay Rozen, Portrait and Fugue: Portrait
Five Tenor Solos from the opera Lord Byron: Sweet Lady
The Plow That Broke the Plains: Devastation
The River: Prelude
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I: Tableau II "St. Teresa II With Dove"
The River: First Forest
The Plow That Broke The Plains - Suite: Pastorale (Grass)
Four New England Portraits: Meditation: A Portait Of A.E. Austin
The Plow That Broke the Plains: Drought
The Plow That Broke the Plains: Wind and Dust
The Plow That Broke the Plains: War and the Tractor
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II: Might it be Mountains
Four New England Portraits: A Day-Dream: A Portrait Of Herbert Whiting
The River: A Big River
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I: Tableau VI "St. Teresa II in Ecstasy"
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I: Tableau III "St. Teresa II Seated"
Jay Rozen, Portrait and Fugue: Fugue
I. Allegro
The Plow that Broke the Plains: Warning
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I: Tableau V "St. Ignatius Showing St. Teresa II the Model of a Heavenly Mansion"
Three Parisian Portraits: Swiss Waltz: A Portrait Of Sophie Tauber-Arp
Mally Davies: Terminations
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II: Dance of the Angels
The Plow That Broke The Plains - Suite: Prelude
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I: Tableau IV "St. Ignatius Presents Flowers"
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I: Tableau VIII "No Pose"
Mislabelled!!! Barcarolle/ a Portrait Of George Hugnet
Symphony on a Hymn Tune
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I: Tableau VII "St. Teresa II, with Halo"
My Crow Pluto
Family Portrait: I. A Fanfare (Robin Smith)
Ten Etudes: Ragtime Bass
The Plow That Broke The Plains - Suite: Blues (Speculation)
The River: Logging
Autumn (Concertina For Harp, Strings & Percussion): Salute To The Wind
Ragtime Bass In C Sharp
Three Portaits: Madame Dubost Chez Elle
Five Shakespeare Songs: 1. 'Was This Fair Fave The Casue?'; 2. 'Take, O, Take Those Lips Away';3. 'Tell Me Where Us Fancy Bred'; 4. 'Pardon, Goddess Of The Night'; 5. 'Sigh No More, Ladies'
Three Portraits: Five Phrases From The Sing Of Solomon
The Plow that Broke the Plains: Speculation (Blues)
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II: Love Scene
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II: Game
The River: Cotton Pickers
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III: Saints’ Procession
The River: Ruins
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II: Drinking Song
The Mother of Us All: Overture - A Political Meeting
Three French Boys: Maurice Bavoux: Young And Alone
Symphony on a Hymn Tune: I Introduction and Allegro
Symphony on a Hymn Tune: III Allegretto
Symphony No. 3: III Adagio sostenuto
The River: Floods
The River: Coal
capital capitals
Four Saints in Three Acts: Intermezzo
Four Saints in Three Acts: Prologue to Act IV
Three French Boys: Portrait Of Claude Biais
Dr. Marvel Rock: Making A Decision
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III: Vision of Holy Ghost
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III: Barcelona
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III: Ballet
Cello Concerto: II. Variations on a Southern Hymn
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act IV: The Sisters and Saints Reassembled
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II: Vision of a Heavenly Mansion
Homage To Marya Freund And To The Harp
Cattle
IV. Andante - Doppio movimento
Symphony No. 2: I Allegro Militaire
The River: Requiem
Three Portraits: Russell Hitchcock, Reading
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II: Pantomime
Susie Asado
Three Portraits: Russell Hitchcock, Reading
Symphony on a Hymn Tune: II Andante cantabile
Symphony No. 3: II Tempo di Valzer
Symphony No. 3: I Allegro moderato
The River: Tenancy
Stabat Mater for Soprano and String Quartet - Remastered
Five Songs from William Blake: Tiger! Tiger!
Three French Boys: A French Boy Of Ten: Louis Lange
Preciosillo
Autumn (Concertina For Harp, Strings & Percussion): Dialogue
Louisiana Story Suite: I. Pastoral
Symphony No. 2: III Allegro
Symphony on a Hymn Tune: IV Alla breve
The Feast Of Love
Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III: Saint Ignatius Predicts the Last Judgment
Two By Marianne Moore
Five Songs from William Blake: The Divine Image
Man Of Iron: A Portrait Of Will Eisenhart
III Allegretto
The Plow That Broke The Plains - Suite: Devastation
Symphony No. 2: II Andante
Three Pictures for Orchestra: The Seine at Night
Cattle (I Ride An Old Paint) from The Plow that Broke the Plains
Prelude
Three Parisian Portraits: Aria: A Portrait Of Germaine Hugnet
Praises and Prayers
4 Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion (arr. for tenor and piano): Follow thy fair sun
Symphony No. 3: IV Allegretto
Five Songs from William Blake: And did those feet
Synthetic Waltzes
The Courtship Of The Yongly Bongly Bo
Drought
II Andante cantabile
Autumn (Concertina For Harp, Strings & Percussion): Promenade
The River Suite: The Old South
String Quartet No. 2: III. Adagio sostenuto
Filling Station: Motorist & Mac
A Joyful Fugue
Five Songs from William Blake: The Little Black Boy
Devastation
Five Songs from William Blake: The Land of Dreams
II. Andante nobile
Prologue
String Quartet No. 2: I. Allegro moderato
Three Pictures for Orchestra: Wheat Field at Noon
Portraits for Piano Solo, Album 3: No. 7, Souvenir (Paul Bowles)
Portrait of F.B. (Frances Blood)
String Quartet No. 2: II. Tempo di valzer
Collected Poems
String Quartet No. 2: IV. Allegretto
Autumn (Concertina For Harp, Strings & Percussion): Love Scene
Three Pictures for Orchestra: Sea Piece With Birds
0 Prelude, To Know To Know
Louisiana Story - Acadian Songs & Dances: Sadness
Cello Concerto: III. Children's Games
Cello Concerto: I. Rider on the Plains
The River
Speculation (Blues)
I Allegro moderato
III. Tempo di Valzer
Acadian Songs and Dances from the film score Louisiana Story (Excerpts): Sadness
Quartet for strings No.2
The River Suite: Industrial Expansion in the Mississippi Valley
Louisiana Story Suite: II. Chorale
String Quartet No. 1: I. Allegro Moderato
Sonata da Chiesa: I. Chorale
A Prayer to St. Catherine
Sonata da Chiesa: II. Tango
Capital, Capitals for Four Men and a Piano (1927) - Remastered
III Allegro
De Profundis
Louisiana Story - Acadian Songs & Dances: A Narrative
The River Suite: Finale
Louisiana Story - Acadian Songs & Dances: Papa's Tune
5 Ladies: I. Cynthia Kemper, A Fanfare
Five 2-Part Inventions: Firmly
5 Ladies: II. Anne Miracle
The Mother of Us All: Act I, Scene I - Prologue
Pastorale (Grass)
Finale
Wind and Dust
Jerusalem, my happy home (txt. St. Augustine)
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need: My shepherd will supply my need
Ragtime Bass in C-sharp major
String Quartet No. 1: II. Adagio
Stabat Mater for Soprano and String Quartet
10 Etudes for Piano: For the Weaker Fingers "Music Box Lullaby"
8 Portraits for Violin Alone: No. 3. Georges Hugnet, Poet and Man of Letters
5 Ladies: V. Mary Reynolds
Vernal Equinox
Louisiana Story - Acadian Songs & Dances: Walking Song
Stabat Mater
I Introduction and Allegro
Sung by the Shepherds (txt. Richard Crashaw)
II Andante
English Usage
Follow thy fair sun
II Tempo di Valzer
IV Alla breve
Louisiana Story: I. Pastoral (Suite from the Film Score)
The River Suite: Soil Erosion and Floods
Symphony on a Hymn Tune: III. Allegretto
1, St Teresa In A Storm
Hymns From the Old South: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
5 Ladies: No. 1, Cynthia Kemper (A Fanfare)
The TIger
Symphony on a Hymn Tune: III. Allegretto
Ragtime bass in C sharp major
Sonata da Chiesa: III. Fugue
The Mother of Us All Suite: Prelude
Seventeen Portraits for piano: David Dubal - In Flight
O My Deir Hert
Filling Station: Introduction
Tango Lullaby (Mlle Flavie Alvarez de Toledo)
Filling Station: Dance of Family Life
Virgil Thomson: Excerpts From Historic Interviews
Sonata for Flute Alone: Adagio - Allegro
Piano Sonata No. 3
5 Ladies: No. 3, Alice Toklas
The Holly and the Ivy
Hymns from the Old South: Green Fields
2, St Teresa Could Be Photographed
Louisiana Story Suite: I. Pastoral. The Bayou and the Marsh Buggy
String Quartet No. 1: IV. Lento, Presto
Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree: IV. The Pitcher and the Bucket
5 Ladies: IV. Yvonne de Casa Fuerte
Hymns from the Old South: The Morning Star
Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree: XI. Cavalry Manoeuvers
5 Ladies: No. 2, Anne Miracle
Four Saints in Three Acts (1927-28) Act I Tableau I
Louisiana Story - Acadian Songs & Dances: Super Sadness
Louisiana Story - Acadian Songs & Dances: The Alligator and the 'coon
Overture: A Political Meeting
Five 2-Part Inventions: Freely
The Homesteader
Coal
My Master hath a garden (txt. Anon.)
From "The Canticle of the Sun" (txt. St. Francis of Assisi)
III Adagio sostenuto
Louisiana Story: III. Passacaglia and Fugue (Suite from the Film Score)
Quartet No. 2: I. Allegro Moderato
Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree: VIII. Crossing the Delaware
Sentimental tango no 2
3, St Teresa As A Young Girl Being Widowed
Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree: VI. Martha's Secret Love
Solitude - A Portrait of Lou Harrison
Five 2-Part Inventions: With marked rhythm
Louisiana Story Suite: III. Passacaglia. Robbing the Alligator's Nest - IV. Fugue. Boy Fights Alligator
Feast Of Love
Five Songs from William Blake: I. The Divine Image
Nine Portraits for piano: Awake or Asleep - Pierre Mabille
Symphony On A Hymn Tune ("Symphony No. 1")
Seventeen Portraits for piano: Louis Rispoli - In a Boat
5 Portraits: Cantabile for Strings
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