| “ | 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 | ” |
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