Virgil Thomson: Virgil Thomson - Collected Songs: Low Voice: Vocal Album

Virgil Thomson was and still is renowned for his musical 'portraits' of friends and famous personalities of the day. These four have been transcribed for Cello and Piano and include the poet Lise Deharme designer Max Kahn the great Pablo Picasso and Thomson's friend Flavie Alvarez de Toledo.

Virgil Thomson's Courtship Of The Yongly Bongly Bo for Voice with Piano accompaniment.

Virgil Thomson's Half An Alphabet for SATB choir with Piano accompaniment.This composition is one movement of a larger work entitled 'Cantata on Poems of Edward Lear'. The complete work consists of five movements which are performed in the following order:1. The Owl and the Pussycat (Soprano and Baritone soli Piano)2. The Jumblies (Soprano solo SATB chorus Piano)3. The Pelican Chorus (Soprano and Baritone soli SATB chorus Piano)4. Half an Alphabet (SATB chorus Piano)5. The Akond of Swat (Baritnoe solo SATB chorus Piano)

Virgil Thomson's Family Portrait for Brass Quintet (2 Trumpets Horn in F 2 Trombones).Commissioned by the American Brass Quintet and first performed on 24 March 1975 at Carnegie Recital Hallin New York City.

Par THOMSON VIRGIL. Unison Chorus - Piano/Org/2 Cors - 2 Trompette - Trombone - / Contemporain / Répertoire / Travaux Pour Choeurs

Virgil Thomson's The Feast Of Love based on the Pervigilium Veneris Anonymous Latin Stanzas of the 2nd or 4th century A.D. For Baritone Voice and Piano.The Feast Of Love originally for Baritone and Orchestra was commissioned by the Library of Congress and first performed there at the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Birthday Festival on November 1 1964. The soloist was David Clatworthy and theconductor was Walter Hendl. The work is a setting in the composer's free translation of the Pervigilium Veneris a collection of rhymed Latin stanzas from the second or fourth century A.D. celebrating the tree day festival ofvenus.

Score & Parts-Virgil Thomson's Ode To The Wonders Of Nature for Brass Ensemble (3 Trumpets 2 Horns 3 Trombones) and Percussion (Timpani Snare Drum Field Drum).This work was composed for the SmithsonBicentennial Celebration of the Smithsonian Institution.

Virgil Thomson's My Master Hath A Garden for SATB choir with Piano accompaniment.

Score-Virgil Thomson's Five Portraits for 2 Soprano Clarinets Alto Clarinet and Bass Clarinet.