Hyperion Records | Thomson: Louisiana Story

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CDH55169
(Originally issued on CDA66576)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Recording details: October 1991
All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Christopher Palmer
Engineered by Mike Clements
Release date: July 2004
Total duration: 67 minutes 46 seconds

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'Hyperion's recording is faultless; the notes... are sagacious and rewarding. If your interest is in American music or in film scores, this is indispensable' (American Record Guide)

'Not to be missed' (Classic CD)

'Thomson's music is as American as apple pie and wonderfully evocative' (Gramophone)

Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)

Louisiana Story

The film music of Virgil Thomson

New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

		The Plow that Broke the Plains. Suite
1		Part 1: Prelude. Prologue [1'51]
2		Part 2: Grass. Pastorale [1'27]
3		Part 3: Cattle [3'08]
4		Part 4: Blues [2'54]
5		Part 5: Drought [1'00]
6		Part 6: Devastation [5'42]
		Louisiana Story. Suite
7		Part 1: Pastoral. The bayou and the marsh buggy [6'56]
8		Part 2: Chorale. The derrick arrives [3'30]
9		Part 3: Passacaglia. Robbing the alligator's nest [6'37]
10		Part 4: Fugue. Boy fights alligator [3'34]
		Louisiana Story. Acadian Songs and Dances
11		Part 1: Sadness [2'44]
12		Part 2: Papa's Tune [0'59]
13		Part 3: A Narrative [2'01]
14		Part 4: The alligator and the 'coon [2'22]
15		Part 5: Super-sadness [1'42]
16		Part 6: Walking Song [1'45]
17		Part 7: The Squeeze Box [3'25]
		Power Among Men. Fugues and Cantilenas
18		Part 1: Prelude with Fugal Exposition [1'58]
19		Part 2: Fugue No 1 [1'35]
20		Part 3: Ruins and Jungles [2'40]
21		Part 4: Fugue No 2 [3'30]
22		Part 5: Joyous Pastorale [2'08]
23		Part 6: Finale [4'18]