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A portrait album

Title
A portrait album / Virgil Thomson.
Author
Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.
Publication
Los Angeles, Calif. : Nonesuch, [1982], ©1982.

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  • Jacobs, Paul
  • Silverstein, Joseph, 1932-2015
  • Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.
  • American Brass Quintet, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Description
1 audio disc (53 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo; 12 in.
Uniform Title
Instrumental music. Selections
Alternative Title
Instrumental music.
Subject
  • Piano music
  • Sonatas (Piano)
  • Violin music
  • Brass quintets (Horn, trombones (2), trumpets (2))
Note
  • 1st work (11 portraits) for piano ; 2nd work (sonata) for piano, played on harpsichord ; 3rd work (8 portraits) for violin alone ; 4th work (5 portraits) for brass quintet.
  • Recorded May and June 1981 at Columbia 30th St. Studio and RCA Studio A, New York.
  • Digital recording.
  • Program notes in English by the composer on container.
Contents
  • [Portraits for piano] Bugles and birds : a portrait of Pablo Picasso (2:03) ; With fife and drums : a portrait of Mina Curtis (2:07) ; An old song : a portrait of Carrie Stettheimer (1:44) ; Tango lullaby : a portrait of Mlle. Alvarez de Toledo (1:54) ; Solitude : a portrait of Lou Harrison (1:07) ; Barcarolle : a portrait of Georges Hugnet (1:42) ; Alternations : a portrait of Maurice Grosser (1:44) ; In a bird cage : a portrait of Lise Deharme (1:00) ; Catalan waltz : a portrait of Ramon Senabre (1:29) ;
  • Chromatic double harmonies : a portrait of Sylvia Marlowe (2:37) ; Aaron Copland : Persistently pastoral (2:58) -- Sonata no. 4 (Guggenheim Jeune) (6:29) -- Eight portraits for violin alone : Ruth Smallens (3:52) ; Sauguet, from life (00:51) ; Señorita Juanita de Medina in the company of her mother (2:06) ; Miss Gertrude Stein as a young girl (1:30) ; Georges Hugnet, poet and man of letters (00:59) ; Cliquet-Pleyel in F (1:43) ; Marthe-Marthine (1:54) ; Mrs. C.W.L. (2:00) -- Family portrait for brass quintet : A fanfare, Robin Smith (00:35) ; At fourteen : Annie Barnard (2:30) ; Digging : a portrait of Howard Rea (2:58) ; A scherzo : Priscilla Rea (2:34) ; Man of iron : Willy Eisenhart (1:49).
LCCN
82761964
OCLC
  • 8097892
  • ocm08097892
  • SCSB-2353896
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries