Heaven is Music

Heaven Is Music
Choral and Vocal Music of Virgil Thompson
Albany Records


Track List

# Track Title Time
1. De Profundis (1920/1951) 3:17
2. Tribulationes Civitatum (1922) 3:33
3. O my deir hert (1921/1978)
Rosalind Rees, soprano
1:39
4. Welcome to the New Year (1941)
Steven Vosatka, piano
0:45
5. The Holly and the Ivy (1955/1963)
Steven Vosatka, piano
4:07
 
Four Songs on Poems of Thomas Campion (1951)
Rosalind Rees, soprano | Katherine Greene, viola Steven Hartman, clarinet | Susan Jolles, harp
7:56
6. Four Songs on Poems of Thomas Campion: I - Follow Your Saint 1:57
7. Four Songs on Poems of Thomas Campion: II - There is a Garden in her Face 2:00
8. Four Songs on Poems of Thomas Campion: III - Rose-Cheek’d Laura, Come 2:12
9. Four Songs on Poems of Thomas Campion: IV - Rose-Cheek’d Laura, Come 2:12
 
Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Percussion (1934)
Thomas Mulvaney, percussion
9:37
10. Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Percussion: Kyrie 1:08
11. Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Percussion: Gloria 2:06
12. Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Percussion: Credo 4:05
13. Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Percussion: Sanctus 0:30
14. Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Percussion: Benedictus 0:26
15. Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Percussion: Agnus Dei 1:01
 
Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides (1934/1967) 12:27
16. Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides: I - O gentle heart 2:09
17. Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides: II - Love, like a leaf 1:55
18. Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides: III - O, happy were our fathers 1:43
19. Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides: IV - Weep for the little lambs 1:20
20. Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides: V - Go down, O Sun 0:35
21. Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides: VI - Behold, O Earth
Solo trio: Georgette Hutchins Gregory Davidson | Pedro d’Aquino
2:45
22. Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides: VII - Immortal Zeus controls the fate of Man
Michael Osrowitz, percussion
1:35
 
23. My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (1937) 3:44
 
Hymns from the Old South (1949) 5:49
24. Hymns from the Old South Morning Star 1:08
25. Hymns from the Old South Death, ‘tis a melancholy day 2:10
26. Hymns from the Old South Green Fields 2:18