℗ 2023 Everbest Music and Media
| Released | August 18, 2023 |
| Duration | 2h 32m 07s |
| Record Label | Everbest Music and Media |
| Catalogue No. | 1003 |
| Genre | Classical (Modern Era) |
Virgil Thomson: A Gallery of Portraits for Piano and Other Piano Works
Craig Rutenberg
Available in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Madame Dubost chez elle
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
0:58 | |||
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1.2
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Russell Hitchcock, Reading
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:04 | |||
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1.3
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A Portrait of R. Kirk Askew, Jr.
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:01 | |||
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1.4
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Sea Coast: A Portrait of Constance Askew
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:10 | |||
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1.5
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Souvenir: A Portrait of Paul Bowles
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:01 | |||
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1.6
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Meditation: A Portrait of Jere Abbott
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:30 | |||
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1.7
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Helen Austin at Home and Abroad
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:11 | |||
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1.8
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Harold Lewis Cook: Connecticut Waltz
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:41 | |||
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1.9
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A Day Dream: A Portrait of Herbert Whiting (orig. version)
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:13 | |||
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1.10
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A Day Dream: A Portrait of Herbert Whiting (printed version)
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:14 | |||
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1.11
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Prelude and Fugue: A Portrait of Miss Agnes Rindge
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:11 | |||
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1.12
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Travelling in Spain: Alice Woodfin Branlière
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:07 | |||
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1.13
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Catalan Waltz: A Portrait of Ramon Senabre
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:43 | |||
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1.14
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Clair Leonard's Profile
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:14 | |||
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1.15
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Pastorale: A Portrait of Tristan Tzara
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
4:05 | |||
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Selections from Filling Station
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1.16
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I. Introduction
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:03 | |||
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1.17
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II. Mac's Dance (Pas Seul)
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
3:24 | |||
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1.18
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III. Scene (Mac and Motorist
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:24 | |||
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1.19
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IV. Acrobatics (Mac and Truck-drivers)
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:56 | |||
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1.20
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V. Scene (State-Trooper & Truck-drivers)
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:13 | |||
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1.21
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A French Boy of Ten: Louis Lange
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:10 | |||
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1.22
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Maurice Bavoux: Young and Alone
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:51 | |||
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1.23
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Florine Stettheimer: Parades
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:33 | |||
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1.24
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Ettie Stettheimer
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:10 | |||
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1.25
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An Old Song: A Portrait of Carrie Stettheimer
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:55 | |||
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1.26
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Homage to Marya Freund and to the Harp
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:40 | |||
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1.27
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Duet: Clarita, Comtesse de Forceville
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:49 | |||
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1.28
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Peter Monro Jack: Scottish Memories
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:28 | |||
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1.29
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Toccata: A Portrait of Mary Widney
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:03 | |||
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1.30
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Fanfare for France: A Portrait of Max Kahn
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:41 | |||
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1.31
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Aria: A Portrait of Germaine Hugnet
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:49 | |||
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1.32
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With Trumpet and Horn: A Portrait of Louise Ardant
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:48 | |||
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1.33
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Cantabile: A Portrait of Nicolas de Chatelain
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
3:59 | |||
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1.34
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Awake or Asleep: Pierre Mabille
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:44 | |||
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1.35
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Dora Maar, or The Presence of Pablo Picasso
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:40 | |||
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1.36
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Bugles and Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Picasso
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
3:13 | |||
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1.37
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Tango Lullaby: A Portrait of Mlle. (Flavie) Alvarez de Toledo
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:17 | |||
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2.1
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Solitude: A Portrait of Lou Harrison
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:42 | |||
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2.2
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Persistently Pastorale: Aaron Copland
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
3:54 | |||
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2.3
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With Fife and Drums: A Portrait of Mina Curtis
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:41 | |||
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Suite from "The Plow that Broke the Plains"
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2.4
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I. Prelude
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:35 | |||
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2.5
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II. Cowboy Songs
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:11 | |||
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2.6
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III. Blues
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
3:02 | |||
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2.7
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IV. Finale
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
5:21 | |||
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2.8
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Insistences: A Portrait of Louise Crane
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:23 | |||
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2.9
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Jamie Campbell: Stretching
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:52 | |||
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2.10
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Prisoner of the Mind: Schuyler Watts
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
2:47 | |||
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2.11
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Five-Finger Exercise (Portrait of Briggs Buchanan)
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
3:06 | |||
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2.12
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Morris Golde: Showing Delight
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
0:40 | |||
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2.13
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Wiley Hitchcock: Two Birds
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:46 | |||
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2.14
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Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
0:54 | |||
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2.15
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Bennett Lerner: Senza Espressione
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:24 | |||
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2.16
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Power Boothe: With Pencil
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:38 | |||
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2.17
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Franco Assetto: Drawing Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
0:47 | |||
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2.18
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Dead Pan: Mrs. Betty Freeman
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:37 | |||
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2.19
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Glynn Boyd Harte: Reading
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:21 | |||
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2.20
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Richard Flender: Solid, Not Stolid
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:20 | |||
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2.21
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Norma Flender: Thoughts about Waltzing
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
0:57 | |||
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2.22
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John Houseman: No Changes
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:47 | |||
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2.23
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Rodney Lister: Music for a Merry-Go-Round
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
0:56 | |||
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2.24
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Dr. Marcel Roche: Making a Decision
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:23 | |||
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2.25
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Doña Flor: Receiving
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:07 | |||
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2.26
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Vassilis Voglis: On the March
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:26 | |||
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2.27
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Malitte Matta: In the Executive Style
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:22 | |||
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2.28
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Bill Katz: Wide Awake
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:18 | |||
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2.29
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Man of Iron: A Portrait of Willy Eisenhart
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:53 | |||
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2.30
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Barbara Epstein: Untiring
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
0:44 | |||
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2.31
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Louis Rispoli: In a Boat
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:27 | |||
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2.32
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Buffie Johnson: Drawing Virgil Thomson in Charcoal
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:18 | |||
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2.33
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Christopher Beach Alone
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:26 | |||
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2.34
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David Dubal: In Flight
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:17 | |||
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2.35
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Dennis Russell Davies: In a Hammock
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:16 | |||
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2.36
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Christopher Cox: Singing a Song
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:09 | |||
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2.37
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Mark Beard: Never Alone
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:18 | |||
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2.38
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Charles Fussell: In Meditation
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:53 | |||
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2.39
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Anne-Marie Soulliere
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
0:48 | |||
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2.40
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Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:12 | |||
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2.41
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Karen Brown Waltuck: Intensely Two
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:20 | |||
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2.42
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Craig Rutenberg: Swinging
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:22 | |||
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Two Sentimental Tangos
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2.43
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I. Slow and Smooth
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
1:47 | |||
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2.44
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II. Not Fast
Virgil Thomson; Craig Rutenberg |
3:27 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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Virgil Thomson was not the first to compose musical portraits, but his are singular in that they were drawn from life. Gertrude Stein did this in literature and Thomson, ever her disciple, aspired to do so in music; the “model” would sit for their portrait, and the score page would become a canvas.
These discs feature 70 of the 110 portraits for solo piano–representing the largest collection of these piano portraits ever recorded by one artist–brought to life by Craig Rutenberg, distinguished pianist, friend, and colleague of Mr. Thomson.
88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Everbest Music and Media Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -5.52 -16.54 to -0.10 | -26.23 -34.11 to -20.11 | -23.19 -31.50 to -17.10 | 13 10 to 16 | |
| 1.1 | Madame Dubost chez elle | -2.88 | -24.04 | -21.0 | 14 |
| 1.2 | Russell Hitchcock, Reading | -4.28 | -24.07 | -20.8 | 13 |
| 1.3 | A Portrait of R. Kirk Askew, Jr. | -4.28 | -26.43 | -23.4 | 12 |
| 1.4 | Sea Coast: A Portrait of Constance Askew | -1.46 | -23.57 | -20.3 | 13 |
| 1.5 | Souvenir: A Portrait of Paul Bowles | -2.11 | -22.86 | -19.8 | 12 |
| 1.6 | Meditation: A Portrait of Jere Abbott | -3.19 | -25.03 | -22.0 | 13 |
| 1.7 | Helen Austin at Home and Abroad | -7.72 | -29.62 | -26.9 | 13 |
| 1.8 | Harold Lewis Cook: Connecticut Waltz | -4.59 | -25.61 | -22.8 | 12 |
| 1.9 | A Day Dream: A Portrait of Herbert Whiting (orig. version) | -5.61 | -27.86 | -24.5 | 13 |
| 1.10 | A Day Dream: A Portrait of Herbert Whiting (printed version) | -5.23 | -28.41 | -24.8 | 13 |
| 1.11 | Prelude and Fugue: A Portrait of Miss Agnes Rindge | -2.53 | -23.79 | -20.8 | 13 |
| 1.12 | Travelling in Spain: Alice Woodfin Branlière | -2.54 | -24.56 | -21.0 | 14 |
| 1.13 | Catalan Waltz: A Portrait of Ramon Senabre | -3.29 | -23.84 | -20.7 | 13 |
| 1.14 | Clair Leonard's Profile | -3.25 | -24.20 | -21.3 | 12 |
| 1.15 | Pastorale: A Portrait of Tristan Tzara | -0.58 | -25.20 | -22.3 | 15 |
| 1.16 | I. Introduction | -2.10 | -21.42 | -17.9 | 13 |
| 1.17 | II. Mac's Dance (Pas Seul) | -1.26 | -24.02 | -20.7 | 14 |
| 1.18 | III. Scene (Mac and Motorist | -2.08 | -22.72 | -19.0 | 12 |
| 1.19 | IV. Acrobatics (Mac and Truck-drivers) | -0.43 | -20.11 | -17.1 | 13 |
| 1.20 | V. Scene (State-Trooper & Truck-drivers) | -0.53 | -22.42 | -18.2 | 13 |
| 1.21 | A French Boy of Ten: Louis Lange | -7.95 | -26.72 | -23.6 | 11 |
| 1.22 | Maurice Bavoux: Young and Alone | -4.44 | -27.75 | -24.1 | 14 |
| 1.23 | Florine Stettheimer: Parades | -0.10 | -21.69 | -18.8 | 15 |
| 1.24 | Ettie Stettheimer | -0.97 | -21.46 | -18.7 | 13 |
| 1.25 | An Old Song: A Portrait of Carrie Stettheimer | -2.53 | -25.81 | -22.4 | 14 |
| 1.26 | Homage to Marya Freund and to the Harp | -2.72 | -22.50 | -19.6 | 12 |
| 1.27 | Duet: Clarita, Comtesse de Forceville | -11.28 | -32.32 | -29.2 | 12 |
| 1.28 | Peter Monro Jack: Scottish Memories | -4.41 | -24.98 | -22.3 | 12 |
| 1.29 | Toccata: A Portrait of Mary Widney | -2.52 | -25.28 | -22.1 | 14 |
| 1.30 | Fanfare for France: A Portrait of Max Kahn | -3.60 | -25.01 | -22.4 | 13 |
| 1.31 | Aria: A Portrait of Germaine Hugnet | -10.69 | -32.84 | -30.0 | 13 |
| 1.32 | With Trumpet and Horn: A Portrait of Louise Ardant | -0.10 | -22.21 | -18.6 | 13 |
| 1.33 | Cantabile: A Portrait of Nicolas de Chatelain | -4.57 | -29.81 | -26.9 | 16 |
| 1.34 | Awake or Asleep: Pierre Mabille | -16.54 | -34.11 | -31.5 | 10 |
| 1.35 | Dora Maar, or The Presence of Pablo Picasso | -7.09 | -28.33 | -25.6 | 12 |
| 1.36 | Bugles and Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Picasso | -0.75 | -23.70 | -20.6 | 13 |
| 1.37 | Tango Lullaby: A Portrait of Mlle. (Flavie) Alvarez de Toledo | -9.99 | -31.59 | -28.9 | 15 |
| 2.1 | Solitude: A Portrait of Lou Harrison | -7.28 | -29.86 | -26.2 | 13 |
| 2.2 | Persistently Pastorale: Aaron Copland | -1.15 | -24.73 | -21.8 | 16 |
| 2.3 | With Fife and Drums: A Portrait of Mina Curtis | -4.11 | -25.37 | -22.4 | 12 |
| 2.4 | I. Prelude | -4.95 | -27.58 | -24.0 | 14 |
| 2.5 | II. Cowboy Songs | -0.46 | -24.11 | -21.2 | 14 |
| 2.6 | III. Blues | -0.42 | -21.16 | -18.0 | 13 |
| 2.7 | IV. Finale | -0.10 | -23.65 | -20.4 | 15 |
| 2.8 | Insistences: A Portrait of Louise Crane | -5.65 | -29.01 | -25.9 | 14 |
| 2.9 | Jamie Campbell: Stretching | -3.72 | -27.23 | -24.2 | 14 |
| 2.10 | Prisoner of the Mind: Schuyler Watts | -9.83 | -28.97 | -26.3 | 12 |
| 2.11 | Five-Finger Exercise (Portrait of Briggs Buchanan) | -9.25 | -30.69 | -27.5 | 13 |
| 2.12 | Morris Golde: Showing Delight | -5.75 | -23.96 | -20.9 | 11 |
| 2.13 | Wiley Hitchcock: Two Birds | -6.13 | -24.81 | -21.8 | 12 |
| 2.14 | Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard | -2.20 | -22.64 | -19.7 | 13 |
| 2.15 | Bennett Lerner: Senza Espressione | -13.09 | -31.06 | -28.4 | 11 |
| 2.16 | Power Boothe: With Pencil | -14.89 | -32.23 | -29.5 | 11 |
| 2.17 | Franco Assetto: Drawing Virgil Thomson | -3.56 | -21.54 | -18.4 | 12 |
| 2.18 | Dead Pan: Mrs. Betty Freeman | -14.20 | -31.78 | -28.9 | 11 |
| 2.19 | Glynn Boyd Harte: Reading | -10.97 | -28.81 | -25.9 | 10 |
| 2.20 | Richard Flender: Solid, Not Stolid | -2.31 | -23.77 | -20.7 | 15 |
| 2.21 | Norma Flender: Thoughts about Waltzing | -8.95 | -28.52 | -25.5 | 12 |
| 2.22 | John Houseman: No Changes | -7.44 | -29.13 | -26.2 | 14 |
| 2.23 | Rodney Lister: Music for a Merry-Go-Round | -4.24 | -22.49 | -19.6 | 11 |
| 2.24 | Dr. Marcel Roche: Making a Decision | -8.88 | -27.17 | -24.3 | 12 |
| 2.25 | Doña Flor: Receiving | -4.15 | -22.99 | -20.0 | 12 |
| 2.26 | Vassilis Voglis: On the March | -6.55 | -25.48 | -22.6 | 13 |
| 2.27 | Malitte Matta: In the Executive Style | -7.91 | -25.50 | -22.7 | 11 |
| 2.28 | Bill Katz: Wide Awake | -3.50 | -24.20 | -21.2 | 13 |
| 2.29 | Man of Iron: A Portrait of Willy Eisenhart | -1.24 | -21.69 | -18.4 | 14 |
| 2.30 | Barbara Epstein: Untiring | -5.80 | -23.28 | -20.2 | 11 |
| 2.31 | Louis Rispoli: In a Boat | -11.52 | -29.39 | -26.7 | 12 |
| 2.32 | Buffie Johnson: Drawing Virgil Thomson in Charcoal | -9.83 | -28.06 | -25.1 | 11 |
| 2.33 | Christopher Beach Alone | -7.24 | -28.64 | -25.9 | 14 |
| 2.34 | David Dubal: In Flight | -6.50 | -26.58 | -23.6 | 12 |
| 2.35 | Dennis Russell Davies: In a Hammock | -12.82 | -31.45 | -28.7 | 11 |
| 2.36 | Christopher Cox: Singing a Song | -9.75 | -29.25 | -26.2 | 12 |
| 2.37 | Mark Beard: Never Alone | -9.21 | -26.88 | -23.9 | 12 |
| 2.38 | Charles Fussell: In Meditation | -14.13 | -31.05 | -28.4 | 11 |
| 2.39 | Anne-Marie Soulliere | -2.01 | -22.97 | -19.8 | 12 |
| 2.40 | Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling | -11.93 | -30.96 | -28.1 | 11 |
| 2.41 | Karen Brown Waltuck: Intensely Two | -7.68 | -27.03 | -23.9 | 12 |
| 2.42 | Craig Rutenberg: Swinging | -4.91 | -26.81 | -23.8 | 12 |
| 2.43 | I. Slow and Smooth | -6.92 | -30.11 | -27.5 | 13 |
| 2.44 | II. Not Fast | -3.53 | -26.44 | -23.0 | 13 |