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Virgil Thomson - Mostly About Love: Songs and Vocal Works (1994)
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Virgil Thomson - Mostly About Love: Songs and Vocal Works (1994)
Classical | EAC (APE+CUE+LOG) | 290 MB (WinRAR - 3% Rec.) | Complete Artwork
Nancy Armstrong, sop. • D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo • Anthony Tommasini, piano, etc.
Classical | EAC (APE+CUE+LOG) | 290 MB (WinRAR - 3% Rec.) | Complete Artwork
Nancy Armstrong, sop. • D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo • Anthony Tommasini, piano, etc.
| “ | The neglect of Thomson's vocal works is inexplicable. There are close to 100 works - songs, duets, quartets, even a complete mass setting for solo voice. In the best of these, including those presented on this disc, the music is clear-headed, unmannered and direct. When the emotional content heats up, as in his proclamatory setting of Bossuet's Oraison funèbre, it never boils over, restrained by the French sensibility that Thomson, from his many years living in Paris, adopted into his own aesthetic. He selected literate, witty texts and set them with scrupulous clarity and conversational naturalness. In this way his vocal music is unabashedly American. European Romance languages have lilting sounds and long-short rhythms. English, particularly American English, is all jerky and asymmetrical. Thomson gloried in setting it just that way. - Anthony Tommasini, liner notes | ” |
Tracklist
01. Susie Asado (1926) 1:41 Gertrude Stein
02. Pigeons on the Grass Alas (1935) 3:19 Gertrude Stein, from Four Saints in Three Acts
03. Praises and Prayers: From "The Canticle of the Sun" (1963) 5:08 St. Francis of Assisi
04. Praises and Prayers: My Master Hath a Garden (1963) 1:30 Anonymous
05. Praises and Prayers: Sung by the Shepherds (1963) 3:58 Richard Crashaw
06. Praises and Prayers: Before Sleeping (1963) 1:55 Anonymous
07. Praises and Prayers: Jerusalem, My Happy Home (1963) 4:46 Anonymous
08. Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon: Thou That Dwellest in the Gardens (1926) 0:40
09. Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon: Return, O Shulamite! (1926) 1:00
10. Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon: O, My Dove (1926) 0:52
11. Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon: I Am My Beloved's (1926) 0:47
12. Five Phrases from the Song of Solomon: By Night (1926) 1:29
13. Mostly About Love: Love Song (1959) 2:27 Kenneth Koch
14. Mostly About Love: Down at the Docks (1959) 2:09 Kenneth Koch
15. Mostly About Love: Let's Take a Walk (1959) 1:27 Kenneth Koch
16. Mostly About Love: A Prayer to Saint Catherine (1959) 2:40 Kenneth Koch
17. Commentaire sur Saint Jérome (1928) 1:02 Marquis de Sade
18. From "Sneden's Landing Variations" (1972) 1:50 Frank O'Hara
19. Shakespeare Songs: Was This Fair Face the Cause? (1956-57) 2:14
20. Shakespeare Songs: Take, O, Take Those Lips Away (1956-57) 2:12
21. Shakespeare Songs: Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred (1956-57) 1:20
22. Shakespeare Songs: Sigh No More, Ladies (1956-57) 2:08
23. Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France reine de la Grande-Bretagne (1930) 13:28 Jacques Bossuet
24. Capital Capitals (1927) 16:57 Gertrude Stein
Served thru RS
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Classical Arts NR 250-CD
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Posted By:
v4v
Date:
26 May 2010 13:03:49
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea. May be it's a challenge to compose on Gertrude Stein's 'S'-charged lyrics; anyway the scores are 'a correct and clear relation to the language in which the vocal part is written'. Thanks!
Posted By:
savaal
Date:
02 Jun 2010 21:36:01
Great! Great! Great! Thanks
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