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A Gift To Be Simple

Music for Early America

Rogers Shields (piano), Richard Muenz (baritone)

London Symphony Orchestra, Gregg Smith Singers, Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind, Siegfried Landau

A Gift To Be Simple

A Gift To Be Simple

Music for Early America

Rogers Shields (piano), Richard Muenz (baritone)

London Symphony Orchestra, Gregg Smith Singers, Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind, Siegfried Landau

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The pioneering spirit of the first explorers of the United States of America, from their own music from the earliest times to superb evocations of their lives, times and tunes from famous American composers of the twentieth century. Ainsworth Psalms, the Bay Psalter, Ives, Copland, Coolidge and more.

Contents and tracklist

Copland: Appalachian Spring
Work length2:57
Appalachian Spring: Variations on a Shaker Hymn
Track length2:57
Ainsworth: The Bay Book of Psalmes
Work length11:18
  • Gregg Smith Singers
Psalm 100
Track length0:23
Psalm 25
Track length0:36
Psalm 1
Track length0:43
Psalm 111
Track length0:49
Psalm 97
Track length0:33
Psalm 55
Track length1:01
Psalm 34
Track length0:54
Psalm 13
Track length0:42
Psalm 27
Track length0:45
Psalm 18
Track length1:00
Psalm 75
Track length1:03
Psalm 37
Track length0:27
Psalm 39
Track length0:32
Psalm 33
Track length0:21
Psalm 24
Track length0:34
Psalm 84
Track length0:55
Excerpt,Ives, C: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 19 'Concord, Mass., 1840-1860'
Work length6:13
  • Rogers Shields
Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-60", "Concord Sonata": III. The Alcotts
Track length6:13
Ravenscroft, T: The Whole Booke of Psalmes
Work length7:27
  • Richard Muenz
  • Gregg Smith Singers
Psalm 4, "Oxford Tune"
Track length2:05
Psalm 23, "Low Dutch Tune"
Track length1:39
Psalm 73, "York Tune"
Track length1:20
Psalm 39, "Martyr's Tune"
Track length1:28
Psalm 100, "Old Hundredth"
Track length0:55
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Work length2:56
Appalachian Spring: Coda: Moderato
Track length2:56
anon.: Standish - Isle of Wight - 100th Psalm Tune New
Work length2:43
  • Gregg Smith Singers
anon.: The Grounds and Rules of Music Explained
Work length1:29
  • Gregg Smith Singers
The Grounds and Rules of Music Explained: Southwell New - Windsor - Litchfield - Psalm 148
Track length1:29
anon.: Urania
Work length2:44
  • Gregg Smith Singers
Urania: Standisch - Isle of Wight - 100th Psalm of Tune New
Track length2:44
anon.: Cambridge Tune - Southwell Tune
Work length4:29
  • Gregg Smith Singers
Urania
Work length4:41
  • Gregg Smith Singers
The Lord descended from above
Track length2:42
Psalm 19
Track length1:59
Antes: How beautiful upon the mountains
Work length4:31
  • Gregg Smith Singers
Stuart-Coolidge: Pioneer Dances
Work length11:29
  • Westphalian Symphony Orchestra
  • Siegfried Landau
I. Allegro vivo
Track length3:20
II. Andante, quasi rubato
Track length4:46
III. Allegro vivo
Track length3:23
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