classical music: thomson

classical music: thomson

classical music:

Thomson

Jamestown Concerto - American Music for Cello and Orchestra
Perry, Schuman, ...

Naxos American Classics, 2008

The Beggar's Opera: Original Songs & Airs

John Gay, Broadside Band, ...

Hmf Musique D'abord, 2003

music and musicology
i've had the original release for more years than i will admit. it's as enjoyable today as it was the first time i listened to it. in addition to the john gay versions are the earliest known versions of the songs and some that came afterwards. for example, the tune ...

The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World...Ever!

Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

EMI Classics, 2001

Beautiful piano music!
This is simply an exquisite collection of beautiful piano pieces. I am very satisfied with this purchase. I can read while listening to this music-call it background music...maybe, but even when you're doing something else-the music is there...it does not intrude, but ...

Virgil Thomson: Four Saints In Three Acts

Virgil Thomson, Orchestra Of Our Time, ...

Nonesuch, 1992

Say what....?
What fun this opera is! Virgil Thomson likes to play with the orchestra and singers as much as Gertrude Stein likes to play with the English language. It's nonsense, but it's not. Part of the fun is trying to make some sense of the cryptic libretto....indeed, you can't ...

The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever!

Johann Sebastian Bach, Léo Delibes, ...

Angel Records, 1999

Good for relaxing pregnant women
I stumbled onto this album whilst searching bit torrent websites for classical music. I don't normally listen to classical music but thought it might be relaxing for my pregnant wife. After hearing the quality of the performances, the arrangement, and the recording I ...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Piano Concerto in A Minor and B Minor

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Bryden Thomson, ...

Chandos, 1992

UTTERLY ASTONISHING!
I based this purchase on a tiny snippet heard in the background on internet radio. The music was engaging, but what caught my ear was the playing. I purchased the disc on a sort of whim, being relatively unfamiliar with Hummel. I am on cloud nine because I took ...

Virgil Thomson: Symphony No 1-3

Virgil Thomson, James Sedares, ...

Naxos American, 2000

Great American Music
I must confess that my opinion of Virgil Thomson has been colored by his somewhat sharp tongued music criticism so I have not been much interested in his music. This was until I heard his Symphony on a Hymn Tune over the radio. The charm of the music and its wealth ...

Corigliano: The Red Violin Caprices / Thomson: Three Portraits; Five Ladies; Eight Portraits
Corigliano, Thomson

Naxos American Classics, 2008

John Corigliano has revisited his score for the 1997 film The Red Violin several times. In The Red Violin Caprices, content is allied to a technique making strenuous demands on the performer. The pensive Theme is identical in substance to that heard in the earlier Chaconne (Naxos 8.559306), and its five variations range in style from the ...

I Never Saw Another Butterfly; Songs of the Twentieth Century

Sharon J. Paul, Alberto Grau; Pablo Casals; Ernst Krenek; Virgil Thomson; Arne Mellnas; Einojuhani Rautavaara; Judith Shatin; Laszlo Halmos Charles Davidson, ...

SFGC 9601, 1996

Stunning!
This is one of the most beautiful CDs I've heard. Charles Davidson has set the Terezin Poems to music so perfectly that they demand a choir of this caliber to perform them. This disc will take your breath away.

The Plow That Broke the Plains & The River / Gil-Ordonez, Post-Classical Ensemble

Virgil Thomson, Post-Classical Ensemble

Naxos, 2007

Two Masterpieces of Documentary Film Restored with Newly Recorded Musical Scores by Virgil Thomson
Pare Lorentz's two groundbreaking 1930s documentaries, paid for by the US government and making no apologies for their propagandist intentions, are here presented with the evocative scores by composer Virgil Thomson played in modern sound by the Post-Classical Ensemble ...

Aaron Copland and Virgil Thompson Sacred & Secular Choral Music
Luke Norman, Aaron Copland, ...

Eroica Classical, 1998

Celebrating the centenary of Aaron Copland's birth, Gloriae Dei Cantores presents a broad spectrum of choral music by Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson. These two musical giants exemplified the ideals of American culture and established a truly American style for music. The centerpiece for this recording is the first American recording in many ...

Lord's Prayer

Johann Sebastian Bach, William Billings, ...

Collectables, 1996

Re-released at Last!!!
I have been waiting to find this on CD for years, and am so happy to have found it. One of the best albums of religious music ever. The interpretations are simple and exquisite, the phrasing clear, and each choice harmonious and moving. Now if you'd just offer the ...

Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem, etc / Bryden Thomson

Brian Rayner Cook, Ralph Vaughan Williams, ...

Chandos, 1992

Music for our Time
Ralph Vaughan Williams remains an anachronism in music: some dismiss him as a pudgy old pompous British routineer whose time is past (if it ever was); others find the depth of beauty in his music that somehow seems even more pertinent today than it was during his ...

Martinu: Symphonies

Bohuslav Martinu, Bryden Thomson, ...

Chandos, 2005

An unexpected gem
This has been my record find of the past few years. I've been raised on the Ancerl, Neumann and Belohlavek versions, all fine performances dead centre in the Czech tradition with Czech orchestras. Czech recordings too, at Supraphon studios or Prague Castle, venues with ...

American Masterpieces

Samuel Barber, Arthur Benjamin, ...

Sony, 1997

excellent collection
i'm just going to write about my favorite piece on here, which has been heard by all who saw Platoon. that is Barber's Adagio. hearing this piece conducted here by Bernstein sends chills down my spine, especially in the well done section using silence after the ...