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Special offer. American Classics - Virgil Thomson

Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordóñez

American Classics - Virgil Thomson

Special offer. American Classics - Virgil Thomson

Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordóñez

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Virgil Thomson’s scores for both films are among the most famous ever composed for the movies. Aaron Copland praised the music for The Plow for its “frankness and openness of feeling”, calling it “fresher, more simple, and more personal” than the Hollywood norm. He called the music for The River “a lesson in how to treat Americana”.

World Première Recordings

Contents and tracklist

Prelude
Track length4:04
Pastorale (Grass)
Track length1:19
Cattle
Track length2:06
The Homesteader
Track length2:47
Warning
Track length1:29
War and the Tractor
Track length3:54
Speculation (Blues)
Track length2:54
Drought
Track length1:45
Wind and Dust
Track length2:03
Devastation
Track length4:33
Prelude
Track length0:40
First Forest
Track length1:00
A Big River
Track length2:46
Cotton Pickers
Track length2:42
Ruins
Track length1:19
Logging
Track length2:00
Coal
Track length2:37
Floods
Track length7:38
Requiem
Track length1:13
Tenancy
Track length3:20
Finale
Track length3:23
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