Virgil Thomson

Brahms Reimagined Orchestrations

Brahms*, Virgil Thomson, Bright Sheng, Arnold Schoenberg, Michael Stern (3), Kansas City Symphony*

2024

Reference Recordings

CD

Songs Of Love From The American Songbook

Rorem*, Barber*, Hoiby*, Crumb*, Thomson*, Musto*, Wheeler*, Heggie*, Bernstein*, Lorna Windsor, Gian Francesco Amoroso

2021

Da Vinci Classics

CD, Album

Eight Portraits For Violin Alone

Virgil Thomson, Freya Creech

2020

Not On Label

CD, Album, Ltd

Composers-Critics of the New York Herald Tribune

Paul Bowles, Lou Harrison, Virgil Thomson, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, John Cage

2017

Other Minds

CD, Album

Four Saints In Three Acts

Virgil Thomson / Charles Blandy, Simon Dyer, Aaron Engebreth, Tom McNichols, Gigi Mitchell-Velasco*, Sarah Pelletier, Deborah Selig, Sumner Thompson, Lynn Torgove, Stanley Wilson (4), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose

2016

BMOP/sound

2xSACD, Album

The Mother Of Us All

Virgil Thomson - Manhattan School Of Music Opera Theater, Steven Osgood, Dona D. Vaughn

2014

Albany Records

2xCD

Three Pictures

Virgil Thomson, Thomas Meglioranza, Kristen Watson, Boston Modern Orchestra Project

2010

BMOP/sound

CD, Album

Jamestown Concerto, American Music For Cello And Orchestra

Perry*, Schuman*, Thomson*, Yehuda Hanani, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland)*, William Eddins

2008

Naxos

CD, Album

The Red Violin Caprices

John Corigliano - Virgil Thomson

2008

Naxos

CD, Album

The Plow that Broke the Plains - The River - Symphony No.2 'Romantic'

Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson / Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra*, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Leonard Slatkin

2008

EMI Classics, EMI Classics

CD, Album, Comp, RE, RM

The Plow That Broke The Plains / The River

Virgil Thomson, Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordóñez

2007

Rider On The Plains: Cello Concertos by Virgil Thomson And Charles Fussell

Virgil Thomson & Charles Fussell – Emmanuel Feldman • Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Paul Gambill • New England String Ensemble, Susan Davenny Wyner • Joy Cline Phinney

2006

Albany Records

SACD, Hybrid

Four Songs To Poems Of Thomas Campion, Violin Sonata, Praises And Prayers

Virgil Thomson, Continuum (4), Cheryl Seltzer, Joel Sachs (2)

2005

Naxos

CD, Album, RE

Festival Overture, Piano Concerto No. 2, Filling Station, Symphony No. 2

Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Robert Helps, Virgil Thomson, Robert Kurka, Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller

2003

Albany Records

SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album

Chamber Works

Virgil Thomson

2002

Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)

CD, Album

Sacred & Secular Choral Music

Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Gloriae Dei Cantores, Elizabeth C. Patterson, Luretta Bybee

2000

Gloriae Dei Cantores

CD, Album

Modern American Vocal Works: Premiere Recordings 1950-1953

Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson

1999

Sony Classical

CD, Comp, Mono, RE

By The Rivers Of Babylon (American Psalmody Vol. II)

Adler* · Thomson* · Schoenberg* · Loeffler* · Starer* · Taylor* · Near* · White* · Newbury* · Berger* · Neswick* - Gloriæ Dei Cantores*, Elizabeth C. Patterson, James E. Jordan Jr.*

1999

Gloriae Dei Cantores, Paraclete Recordings

CD

Works For Piano Four-Hands

Arthur Berger (2), Harold Shapero, Virgil Thomson - David Kopp (2), Rodney Lister

1999

New World Records

CD, Album

Symphony On A Hymn Tune • Symphony No. 2 In C Major • Symphony No. 3 • Pilgrims And Pioneers

Virgil Thomson, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares

1999

The Mask

William Bolcom / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco / Virgil Thomson - The New York Concert Singers*, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Judith Clurman

1998

New World Records

CD

American Masterpieces

Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives, William Schuman, Samuel Barber, Morton Gould, Charles Griffes, Edward MacDowell, George Gershwin, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Arthur Benjamin, Richard Rodgers, Virgil Thomson, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, New York Philharmonic, André Kostelanetz

1997

Four Saints In Three Acts (Abridged) / The Plow That Broke The Plains

Virgil Thomson

1996

RCA Victor Gold Seal, BMG Classics

CD, Comp, Mono, RM

Nothing Divine Is Mundane

Virgil Thomson, Dora Ohrenstein, Glenn Siebert, William Sharp (2), Phillip Bush, Cassatt String Quartet

1996

Albany Records

CD

USA (The Flag Series)

Barber* / Bernstein* / Copland* / Gershwin* / Grofé* / Hanson* / Thomson*

1996

Angel Records

CD, Comp

Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson

1994

Centaur Records

CD, Album

Symphony No. 2 / Louisiana Story

Barber* / Thomson* – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra • Andrew Schenck – Westphalian Symphony Orchestra* • Siegfried Landau

1994

Excelsior

CD, Album, Comp

The Plow That Broke The Plains · Suite From 'The River'

Virgil Thomson, Symphony Of The Air, Leopold Stokowski

1994

Portraits And Other Works

Virgil Thomson, Jacquelyn Helin

1993

New World Records

CD, Album

American String Quartets 1900 - 1950

Gershwin*, Copland*, Ives*, Schuman*, Thomson*, The Kohon Quartet*

1993

Tabuh-Tabuhan / The Black Maskers / Symphony On A Hymn Tune / The Feast Of Love

McPhee* / Sessions* / Thomson* / Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra

1992

Mercury, Mercury Living Presence

CD, Comp, RE

American Miniatures

Barber* • Copland* • Thomson*

1992

Angel Records

CD, Album, Comp, RE

Great American Landscapes

Grofé* / Thomson* / Copland*

1992

Angel Records

CD, Comp

Lord Byron, An Opera In Three Acts

Virgil Thomson, Jack Larson / Monadnock Music, James Bolle, Jeanne Ommerlé, D'Anna Fortunato, Matthew Lord, Richard Zeller

1992

Koch International Classics

2xCD, Album

From The Steeples And The Mountains

Ives*, Barber*, Harris*, Thomson*, Cowell*, Ruggles*, Carter*, Glass* / The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble, Christopher Larkin

1992

Louisiana Story / The Plow That Broke The Plains

Virgil Thomson - The New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp

1992

Early and As Remembered

Virgil Thomson, Yvar Mikhashoff, Martha Herr, John Boudler (2), David Kuehn (3)

1991

New Albion

CD, Album

Portraits and Self Portraits

Virgil Thomson, Anthony Tommasini, Sharan Leventhal

1990

Northeastern Records

CD, Album

Paul Sperry Sings Romantic American Songs

Paul Sperry, Irma Vallecillo - Bowles* / Chanler* / Farwell* / Hundley* / Thomson*

1990

3 Portraits For Orchestra, 3 Pictures For Orchestra, 4 Blake Songs / 3 Jewish Poems

Virgil Thomson / Ernest Bloch

1989

Bay Cities

CD, Comp

Symphony No. 3 / Romeo And Juliet / Piano Concerto

Virgil Thomson, David Diamond (2), Lee Hoiby

1989

Bay Cities

CD, Comp, RM

Symphony On A Hymn Tune / Symphony No. 2 / A Solemn Music And A Joyful Fugue / Shipwreck And Love Scene From Byron's Don Juan / Five Tenor Solos From The Opera Lord Byron

Virgil Thomson, James Bolle, Martyn Hill

1989

The Complete Film Scores: The River, The Plow that Broke the Plains

Virgil Thomson, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Richard Kapp

1989

Untitled

William Sharp (2), Steven Blier - Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, Lee Hoiby, Richard Hundley, John Musto, Eric Klein (5)

1989

20th Century Harpsichord Music

Barbara Harbach - Martinu* • Thomson* • Persichetti* • Albright* • Adler* • Sowash* • Templeton*

1988

20th Century American Chamber Music

The Mirecourt Trio - Reale*, Barber*, Harris*, Thomson*, Creston*, Riegger*

1986

Audax, Audax

LP

Ballet And Film Scores As Arranged For Piano

Virgil Thomson, Jacquelyn Helin

1986

Musical Heritage Society

LP

American Piano Music

Copland* / Thomson* / Bowles* / Barber* / Bernstein* / Ramey* - Bennett Lerner

1984

Piano Music By Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson, Nigel Coxe

1983

Musical Heritage Society

LP

At The Tomb Of Charles Ives / Divertimento / Party Pieces / Academic Graffiti

The Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra*, Lukas Foss - Lou Harrison / Vladimir Ussachevsky / John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Virgil Thomson / Leo Smit

1983

A Portrait Album

Virgil Thomson - Paul Jacobs (3), Joseph Silverstein, The American Brass Quintet*

1982

Nonesuch

LP, Album

The Plow That Broke The Plains / A Tuesday In November (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)

Virgil Thomson

1982

Benchmark (3)

LP, Comp, Mono

Sixty Years Of Piano Music

Virgil Thomson - Yvar Mikhashoff

1982

Spectrum Records (5)

LP

Four Saints In Three Acts

Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein - Orchestra Of Our Time*, Joel Thome, Betty Allen, Gwendolyn Bradley, William Brown (3), Clamma Dale, Benjamin Matthews, Florence Quivar, Arthur Thompson (2)

1982

Symphonies

Virgil Thomson / Robert Helps

1980

Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)

LP

The Piano Music of Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson, Arthur Tollefson

1980

Finnadar Records

LP

American Historic

Virgil Thomson With The Philadelphia Orchestra

1979

Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)

LP

An American Anthology

Gershwin*, Carter*, Copland*, Thomson*, Cage* With Meriel* & Peter Dickinson

1978

The Mother Of Us All

Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein, The Santa Fe Opera, Raymond Leppard

1977

Music For The Films The Plow That Broke The Plains, The River

Virgil Thomson - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra*, Neville Marriner*

1976

Symphony No. 6 / Louisiana Story (Suite)

Howard Hanson / Virgil Thomson, Siegfried Landau

1973

Quintet In B Minor For Flute, String Trio & Piano / Serenade For Flute & Violin / Quintet For A-Clarinet, String Trio & Piano

David Diamond (2) / Virgil Thomson / Robert Palmer (6)

1972

Two Chamber Works And A Song-Cycle

Virgil Thomson

1967

Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)

LP, Album, Mono

HiFi/Stereo Review Presents Three Works by Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson, Lillian Fuchs, Betty Allen, Joseph Fuchs, Artur Balsam*

1965

HiFi / Stereo Review

LP

Symphony On A Hymn Tune / Feast Of Love / Four Psalms

Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson Conducting Eastman-Rochester Orchestra

1965

The Plow That Broke The Plains / Suite From 'The River'

Virgil Thomson - Leopold Stokowski Conducting The Symphony Of The Air

1961

La Fiesta Mexicana/Canzona/A Solemn Music/Chorale And Alleluia

Frederick Fennell Conducting The Eastman Symphonic Wind Ensemble*, Mennin*, Perischetti*, Thomson*, Hanson*, H. Owen Reed*

1956

Quartet No. 2 / Voyage

Virgil Thomson / William Schuman, Juilliard String Quartet, Beveridge Webster

1955

Variations On Sunday School Tunes / Four Chorale Preludes

Virgil Thomson / Roger Sessions - Marilyn Mason (2)

1954

Western Symphony / Filling Station

Kay* - Balanchine*, Thomson* - Christensen*, New York City Ballet Orchestra, Leon Barzin

1954

Four Saints In Three Acts

Virgil Thomson • Gertrude Stein

1954

Modern American Music Series: Stabat Mater / Capital, Capitals / Suite For 'Cello And Harp / Suite No. 2 For String Quartet

Virgil Thomson, Lou Harrison

1953

Columbia Masterworks

LP, Album

10 Etudes For Piano

Maxim Schapiro, Virgil Thomson

1953

Decca

10"

Concerto For Violin And Orchestra / String Quartet No. 1 / Trio, For Violin, Viola Violoncello, Op. 45

Berg* / Thomson* / Schoenberg* - William Steinberg, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / New Music String Quartet

1953

American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers

LP, Mono

Our Town / Orchestra Suite From The Plow That Broke The Plains

Aaron Copland / Virgil Thomson - The Little Orchestra Society, Thomas Scherman

1953

A Concert Of American Music In Schönbrunn

Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Randall Thompson, Virgil Thomson

1952

VOX (6)

LP

The River / Prelude On A Hymn Tune By William Billings And Two Symphonic Interludes

Virgil Thomson, Otto Luening, American Recording Society Orchestra

1952

American Recording Society

LP

Three Pictures For Orchestra / Five Songs From William Blake

Virgil Thomson, The Philadelphia Orchestra

1952

Columbia Masterworks

LP, Mono

Concerto For Violoncello And Orchestra / The Mother Of Us All Suite For Orchestra

Virgil Thomson, Janssen Symphony Of Los Angeles, Luigi Silva, Werner Janssen

1951

Louisiana Story / Five Portraits

Virgil Thomson, The Philadelphia Orchestra

1950

Columbia Masterworks

10", Mono

The Plow That Broke The Plains

Leopold Stokowski And The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra / Virgil Thomson

1947

RCA Victor Red Seal

2xShellac, 12", Album

Symphony No. 5 / Concerto For Flute

Bohuslav Martinů / Virgil Thomson - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney

First Edition Records

LP

Bicentenaire U.S.A Bicentennial 1776 - 1976

John Philip Sousa, Edward MacDowell, Charles Griffes, Charles Ives, Ferde Grofé, Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Robert Russell Bennett, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Morton Gould, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Leroy Anderson

Philips

10xLP, Comp, S/Edition

Orchestral Works

Virgil Thomson – Monadnock Festival Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Hill, James Bolle

Albany Records

CD

Music Of Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson

Anthology Series (3), Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)

Cass, Comp

Zirkuspolka / Ragtime Bass Cis-dur

Igor Strawinsky* / Virgil Thomson – Andor Foldes

Deutsche Grammophon

7", Single, Mono

Untitled

Walton*, Thomson*, The Walden Quartet*, The New Music Quartet*

American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers

LP, Mono

Music Of Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson, Rodney Lister, Scott Wheeler (5), Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra

Not On Label

LP, Album

Margery Tede And Friends Perform Virgil Thompson

Margery Tede And Friends, Virgil Thomson

American Concert Association

Cass, Album, Promo

Millenium Overture: Music By American Composers

Randall Snyder, Hilary Tann, Allan Crossman, Sarah Meneely-Kyder, Virgil Thomson

North/South Recordings

CD

Four Saints in Three Acts

Virgil Thomson

RCA Victor Red Seal

5x12", Album

American Chamber Ensemble: American Clarinet Treasures

George Kleinsinger, Elliott Carter, Virgil Thomson, Douglas Moore, Gary Shocker

Elysium Recordings, Inc.

CD

Cornet Favorites

Herbert L. Clarke / Frank Simon (12) / J.B. Arban* / Virgil Thomson / Carl Höhne, Gerard Schwarz, William Bolcom

Children's Suite From The Red Pony / Acadian Songs And Dances (From "Lousiana Story")

Aaron Copland / Virgil Thomson - The Little Orchestra Society, Thomas Scherman

Virgil Thomson: Suite "The River" / Robert Ward: Symphony No. 1

Virgil Thomson, Robert Ward (6) – Vienna Symphony Orchestra* / Walter Hendl, Dean Dixon (2)

Complete Everest & Vanguard Recordings

Leopold Stokowski

2024

Alto

10xCD, Comp, Mono, RM + Box

The Complete Epic And Columbia Album Collection

Louis Lane Conducts The Cleveland Orchestra

2024

American Masterpieces

Maurice Abravanel, Morton Gould, Leopold Stokowski, Antal Doráti*

2022

Alto

CD, Comp

The Columbia Legacy

Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra

2021

Sony Classical

120xCD, Comp, Mono, RM + Box

The Early Columbia Recordings 1949-1956

Juilliard String Quartet

2021

Sony Classical

16xCD, Mono, RE, RM + Box, Comp