Virgil Thomson & Howard Hanson

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Release Date: 5th May 2008
Catalogue No: 2066122
Label: Warner Classics
Series: American Classics
Length: 76 minutes

Thomson, V: The Plow That Broke The Plains - Suite

Work length12:51

$7.80

$10.20

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (second vocals)
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded: 1976-01-01
Recording Venue: Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, California

Prelude

Track length1:24

$1.30

$1.70

Pastorale (Grass)

Track length1:25

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$1.70

Cattle

Track length2:29

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Blues (Speculation)

Track length2:26

$1.30

$1.70

Drought

Track length1:00

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Devastation

Track length4:07

$1.30

$1.70

Thomson, V: Autumn (Concertina For Harp, Strings & Percussion)

Work length9:10

$5.20

$6.80

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (second vocals)
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded: 1976-01-01
Recording Venue: Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, CA

Salute To The Wind

Track length1:50

$1.30

$1.70

Dialogue

Track length2:01

$1.30

$1.70

Love Scene

Track length3:24

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Promenade

Track length1:55

$1.30

$1.70

Thomson, V: The River Suite

Work length24:15

$5.20

$6.80

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded: 1976-01-01
Recording Venue: Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, CA

The Old South

Track length9:55

$1.30

$1.70

Industrial Expansion in the Mississippi Valley

Track length4:48

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Soil Erosion and Floods

Track length5:27

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Finale

Track length4:05

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Hanson, H: Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 'Romantic'

Work length30:28

Album only

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin
Recorded: 1986-04-01
Recording Venue: Recorded April 1986, Powell Hall, Saint Louis, MO

I. Adagio

Track length14:31

Album only

II. Andante Con Tenerezza

Track length8:08

$1.30

$1.70

III. Allegro Con Brio

Track length7:49

$1.30

$1.70

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Virgil Thomson and Howard Hanson were exact contemporaries, both being born in 1896, and both hailing from the mid-west: Thomson from Kansas and Hanson from Nebraska. While Thomson studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and lived there for 15 years, Hanson received his musical education entirely in America, except for a three-year stay at the American Academy in Rome.Although Thomson composed a good deal of music in various genres, including two operas with texts by his friend Gertrude Stein, he was equally well-known in his time as an influential music critic, journalist and composer for the stage and the movies. Indeed, two of his best-known works are the scores for the famous documentary films The Plow that broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1938), both contained on this CD.Although Hanson composed a fine catalogue of works, including seven symphonies and a well-known opera, Merry Mount, is was as an academic and conductor that he made his name. Shortly after returning from Rome, Hanson's conducting was noticed by George Eastman, founder of the Kodak Company and inventor of the roll film who, in 1921, had established the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Hanson remained as director there from 1924 to 1964, during which time he built up a large catalogue of recordings for the Mercury Company conducting works by mainly American composers, including many his own music.

Virgil Thomson & Howard Hanson

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