Virgil Thomson
Resources / Discography

Selected Discography: Available & Historic

American String Quartets. The Kohon Quartet; VoxBox ‎ CDX 5090



Bennett Lerner ‎– American Piano Music. Bennett Lerner, piano; Et Cetera ETC 1019



Complete Film Scores: The River, The Plow that Broke the Plains. Philharmonia Virtuosi, Richard Kapp cond.; ESS.A.Y Recordings CD 1005



Early and As Remembered. With John Boudler, Yvar Mikhashoff, Martha Herr, David Kuehn; New Albion NA 034 CD



Four Saints in Three Acts. Orchestra of Our Time, Joel Thome, cond.; Nonesuch WBRV



From The Steeples and the Mountains (American Music For Brass). The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble, Christopher Larkin cond.; Helios ‎CDH55018



Heaven is Music. Greg Smith Singers, Greg Smith cond.; Albany Music 1166



Louisiana Story / The Plow That Broke The Plains. The New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp cond.; Hyperion CDA66576



Mostly About Love / Songs and Vocal Works. With Nancy Armstrong, D’Anna Fortunato, Sanford Sylvan and others; Anthony Tommasini, piano; Northeastern Records: Classical Arts NR 250-CD



Mother of Us All, The. Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater, Steven Osgood, cond.; Albany Records TROY1486-87



Paul Sperry Sings Romantic American Songs. Paul Sperry, tenor, Irma Vallecillo, piano; Albany Records ‎– TROY043-2



Piano Music By Virgil Thomson. Nigel Coxe, piano; Musical Heritage Society MHS 4804T



Plow that Broke the Plains / The River - World Première Recordings of the Complete Film Scores. Post-Classical Ensemble, Angel Gil-Ordóñez cond.; Naxos 8.559291



Plow That Broke The Plains, The / Suite From 'The River'. Symphony Of The Air, Leopold Stokowski cond.; Analogue Productions AP 001



Portraits and Other Works. Jacquelyn Helin, piano; New World Records ‎80429-2



Portraits and Self Portraits. Anthony Tommasini, piano, with Sharan Leventhal and others; Northeastern Records: Classical Arts NR240-CD



Rider on the Plains - Cello Concertos by Virgil Thomson and Charles Fussell and Short Pieces. Nashville Chamber Orchestra with Emanuel Feldman, cello and Joy Cline Phinney, piano; Paul Gambill cond.; New England String Ensemble, Susan Davenny Wyner, cond.



Symphony On A Hymn Tune · Symphony No. 2 In C Major · Symphony No. 3 · Pilgrims And Pioneers. New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares cond.; Naxos ‎8.559022



The Mask. The New York Concert Singers, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Judith Clurman cond.; With Margaret Kampmeier, William Blount, Sara Cutler, Louise Schulman, Benjamin Verdery; New World Records 80547-2



Three Pictures. Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose cond.; BMOP/sound 1018



Virgil Thomson / Ernest Bloch ‎– 3 Portraits For Orchestra, 3 Pictures For Orchestra, 4 Blake Songs / 3 Jewish Poems. The Philadelphia Orchestra; With Mack Harrell; Bay Cities BCD-1006



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



Virgil Thomson: Chamber Works. Various Artists; New World Records NWCR894



Virgil Thomson: Works by Virgil Thomson. Various Artists; Centaur CRC2180



Virgil Thomson. With Philip Frohnmayer, Logan Skelton, Ellen Phillips-Frohnmayer, Margery Tede, Kent Lyman, Steven Cohen, Rachel van Voorhees, Margery Tede, Jennifer Harris Cassin, H. Jac McCracken; Centaur Records CRC 2180