Mostly about love : [songs and vocal works] / Virgil Thomson.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.

Contributor:

Armstrong, Nancy (Soprano), performer.

Fortunato, D'Anna, performer.

Kelley, Frank, performer.

Sylvan, Sanford, performer.

Ripley, David (Baritone), performer.

Kirby, Paul H., 1946- performer.

Smith, James Russell, performer.

Tommasini, Anthony, 1948- performer.

Series:

Classical arts

Standardized Title:

Vocal music. Selections

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Songs with piano.

Sacred songs with piano.

Songs (High voice) with percussion.

Choruses, Secular (Men's voices, 4 parts) with piano.

Genre:

Songs with piano.

Sound recordings.

Songs.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Saxonville, MA : Northeastern Records, [1994]

Language Note:

Sung in English and French.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

Susie Asado / Gertrude Stein (1:41)

Pigeons on the grass alas / Gertrude Stein (3:19)

Praises and prayers. From "The canticle of the sun" / St. Francis of Assisi (5:08) ; My master hath a garden / anonymous (1:30) ; Sung by the shepherds / Richard Crashaw (3:58) ; Before sleeping / anonymous (1:55) ; Jerusalem, my happy home / anonymous, based on St. Augustine (4:46)

Five phrases from the Song of Solomon. Thou that dwellest in the gardens ; Return, O Shulamite! ; O, my dove ; I am my beloved's ; By night (4:57)

Mostly about love. Love song ; Down at the docks ; Let's take a walk ; A prayer to Saint Catherine / Kenneth Koch (8:51)

Commentaire sur saint Jérome / Marquis de Sade (1:02)

From "Sneden's landing variations" / Frank O'Hara (1:50)

Shakespeare songs. Was this fair face the cause? ; Take, O, take those lips away ; Tell me where is fancy bred ; Sigh no more, ladies (8:04)

Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France reine de la Grande-Bretagne / Jacques Bossuet (13:28)

Capital capitals / Gertrude Stein (16:57).

Participant:

Nancy Armstrong, soprano ; D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano ; Frank Kelley, Paul Kirby tenor ; Sanford Sylvan, baritone ; David Ripley, bass ; James Russell Smith, percussion ; Anthony Tommasini, piano

Notes:

Songs with piano or (in By night) percussion acc., and a male quartet (TTBarB) with piano (last work).

Subtitle from container.

Recorded July and Sept. 1993 at the Campion Center, Weston, MA.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Anthony Tommasini, texts with English translations, and notes on the performers (31 p. : port.) in container.

Contains:

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Susie Asado.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Four saints in three acts. Selections

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Praises and prayers.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Phrases from the Song of Solomon.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Mostly about love.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Commentaire sur St. Jérome.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. From Sneden's Landing variations.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Shakespeare songs.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France, Reine de la Grande-Bretagne.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Capital capitals.

OCLC:

31495942

Publisher Number:

096678025025

NR 250-CD Northeastern Records