The complete songs of Virgil Thomson for voice and piano.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989, composer.

Contributor:

Pelletier, Sarah, singer.

McMurtry, Lynne, singer.

Hite, William, singer.

Engebreth, Aaron, singer, musical director.

D'Amato, Alison, 1971- instrumentalist, musical director.

Osborn, Linda (Pianist), instrumentalist.

McDonald, John, 1959- instrumentalist.

Florestan Recital Project.

Standardized Title:

Songs. Selections

Language:

English

French

Latin

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Songs with piano.

Songs with percussion.

Vocal duets with piano.

Sacred vocal trios with piano.

Songs, Unaccompanied.

Genre:

Songs with piano.

Songs.

Masses.

Chamber music.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

3 audio discs (198 min., 21 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : New World Records, [2016]

Language Note:

Sung in English, French, Latin, and Spanish.

System Details:

digital optical

audio file CD audio

Contents:

disc 1, 25 songs: Vernal equinox (1920, unpublished) / text by Amy Lowell (1:49)

Ah, sunflower! (1920, unpublished) / text by William Blake (1:18)

Susie Asado (1926) / text by Gertrude Stein (1:42)

Preciosilla (1927) / text by Gertrude Stein (4:05)

Five songs from William Blake (1951). The divine image (2:33) ; The tiger (2:53) ; The land of dreams (3:05) ; The little black boy (4:01) ; And did those feet (3:01)

Portrait of F.B. (Frances Blood) (1929) / text by Gertrude Stein (5:58)

La valse grégorienne : quatre poèmes de Georges Hugnet (1927). Les écrivisses ; Grenadine ; La rosée ; Le wagon immobile (2:09)

Film : Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (1930) / text by Gertrude Stein (5:01)

The tiger (1926) / text by William Blake (1:50)

Le berceau de Gertrude Stein, ou Le mystère de la rue de Fleurus (1928) / text by Georges Hugnet (3:20)

Les soirées bagnolaises (1928, unpublished) / text by Georges Hugnet (7:07)

La belle en dormant (1931) / text by Georges Hugnet. Pour chercher sur la carte des mers (1:12) ; La première de toutes (1:21) ; Mon amour est bon à dire (1:23) ; Partis les vaisseaux (0:53)

Trois poèmes de la Duchesse de Rohan (1928, #1 unpublished). À son altesse la Princesse Antoinette Murat (1:52) ; La Seine (2:35) ; Jour de chaleur aux bains de mer (1:25)

Air de Phèdre (1930) / text by Jean Racine (6:09)

Commentaire sur Saint Jérome (1928, unpublished) / text by Marquis de Sade (1:05)

Le singe et le léopard (1930) / text by Jean de La Fontaine (3:33).

disc 2, 32 songs: At the Spring (1955) / text by Jasper Fisher (1:32)

Dirge (1939) / text by John Webster (1:25)

Shakespeare songs (1957). Was this fair face the cause? (2:19) ; Take, O, take those lips away (2:14) ; Tell me where is fancy bred (1:27) ; Pardon, Goddess of the Night (1:59) ; Sigh no more, ladies (2:34)

Consider, Lord (1955) / text by John Donne (1:35)

The bell doth toll (1955) / text by Thomas Heywood (1:39)

Remember Adam's fall (1955) / text by Anonymous, 15th century (2:45)

John Peel (1955) / text by John Woodcock Graves (3:21)

Look, how the floor of heaven (1955) / text by William Shakespeare (1:33)

If thou a reason dost desire to know (1955-58) / text by Sir Francis Kynaston (2:47)

Praises and prayers (1963). From the canticle of the sun / text adapted from Matthew Arnold's translation of St. Francis of Assisi (5:19) ; My master hath a garden / text by Anonymous (1:32) ; Sung by the shepherds / text adapted from Richard Crashaw ; music based on the Pange lingua hymn (4:05) ; Before sleeping / text, traditional child's prayer and nursery rhyme (2:32) ; Jerusalem, my happy home / text Anonymous, from The meditations of Saint Augustine (3:25)

Three sentences of Solomon (1924, unpublished) / text from Song of songs, Old Testament. Thou that dwellest in the gardens (1:18) ; Return, o Shulamite! (1:38) ; I am my beloved's (1:00)

Five phrases from the Song of Solomon (1926) / text from Gons of songs, Old Testament. Thou that dwellest in the gardens (0:53) ; Return, o Shulamite! (1:16) ; O, my dove (1:05) ; I am my beloved's (1:14) ; By night (1:21)

Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France, Reine de la Grande-Bretagne (1930/34, unpublished) / text by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (12:17)

Mass for solo voice (1960). Kyrie eleison (2:19) ; Gloria in excelsis (3:35) ; Sanctus (1:05) ; Benedictus qui venit (0:40) ; Agnus Dei (2:19).

disc 3, 20 songs. My shepherd will supply my need (1937/59) / text by Isaac Watts (4:17)

Two by Marianne Moore (1963). English usage, or "Strike till the iron is hot" (2:29) ; My crow Pluto, or "Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings" (2:13)

Go to sleep, Gabriel Liebowitz (1939, unpublished) / text, Virgil Thomson (:55)

The courtship of the Yongly-Bongly-Bo (1973) / text adapted from Edward Lear (6:35)

Chamber music (1931, unpublished) / text by Alfred Kreymborg (2:17). Sunset ; Twilight ; New moon ; Midnight

A lullaby for Margaret Wheeler (1987, unpublished) / text by Virgil Thomson (1:16)

From Sneden's Landing variations (1972) / text by Frank O'Hara (2:04)

What is it? (1979) / text by Thomas Campion (2:31)

Go to sleep, Pare McTaggett Lorentz : a lullaby (1935, unpublished) / text by Virgil Thomson (0:42)

The cat (1980) / text by Jack Larson (3:13)

Tres estampas de niñez (1957) / text by Reyna Rivas. Todas las horas (2:21) ; Son amigos de todos (0:55) ; Nadie lo oye como ellos (3:38)

Go to sleep, Alexander Smallens, Jr. (1937, unpublished) / text by Virgil Thomson (1:11)

Mostly about love (1959) / text adapted from Kenneth Koch. Love song (2:25) ; Down at the docks (2:08) ; Let's take a walk (1:24) ; A prayer to Saint Catherine (2:52)

Collected poems (1959) / texts by Kenneth Koch (5:31).

Participant:

Sarah Pelletier, soprano ; Lynne McMurtry, contralto ; William Hite, tenor ; Aaron Engebreth, baritone ; Alison D'Amato or Linda Osborn, pianist ; John McDonald, percussion ; Aaron Engebreth, Alison D'Amato, artistic co-cirectors.

Notes:

For 1-3 voices with piano; except Five phrases from the Song of Solomon for soprano and percussion; Five songs from William Blake and Collected poems originally with orchestra; My shepherd will supply my need originally for unaccompanied SATB chorus.

Title from disc label.

Recorded 2015 August 15-19 Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University's Granoff Music Center.

"Florestan Recital Project."

English program notes and song texts, and French, Latin, and Spanish song texts with English translation (75 pages : portraits) inserted in container.

Contains:

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Vernal equinox.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Ah, sunflower!.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Susie Asado.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Preciosilla.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Songs from William Blake; arranged.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Portrait of F. B.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Valse grégorienne.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Film, Deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Tiger.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Berceau de Gertrude Stein.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Soirées bagnolaises.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Belle en dormant.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Poèmes de la Duchesse de Rohan.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Air de Phèdre.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Commentaire sur Saint Jérome.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Singe et le léopard.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. At the Spring.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Dirge.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Shakespeare songs.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Consider, Lord.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Bell doth toll.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Remember Adam's fall.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. John Peel.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Look, how the floor of heaven.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. If thou a reason dost desire to know.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Praises and prayers.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Sentences of Solomon.

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

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

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Masses, voice, piano

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. My shepherd will supply my need; arranged.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Two by Marianne Moore.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Go to sleep, Gabriel Liebowitz.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Courtship of the Yongly Bongly Bo.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Chamber music (Vocal work).

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Lullaby for Margaret Wheeler.

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

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. What is it?, voice, piano

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Go to sleep, Pare McTaggett Lorentz.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Cat.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Estampas de niñez.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Go to sleep, Alexander Smallens, Jr.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Mostly about love.

Container of: Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989. Collected poems; arranged.

OCLC:

944198137

Publisher Number:

093228077527

80775-2 New World Records