VIRGIL THOMSON: Louisiana Story, The Plow That Broke the Plains, etc (mp3, 320k/s)

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Film score suites by leading American composer (and critic!) Virgil Thomson, inlcuding two suites
from Louisiana Story, the first-ever film score that won the Pulitzer Prize in Music!

Enjoy!

Tracks:

The Plow That Broke the Plains
1. Prelude (01:51)
2. Grass (01:27)
3. Cattle (03:08)
4. Blues (02:54)
5. Drought (01:00)
6. Devastation (05:42)
7. Pastoral (The bayou and the marsh buggy) (06:56)
Louisiana Story (Suite)
8. Chorale (The derrick arrives) (03:30)
9. Passacaglia (Robbing the alligator’s nest) (06:37)
10. Fugue (Boy fights alligator) (03:34)
11. Sadness (02:44)
12. Papa’s Tune (00:59)
13. A Narrative (02:01)
14. The alligator and the ‘coon (02:22)
15. Super-sadness (01:42)
16. Walking Song (01:45)
17. The Squeeze Box (03:25)
Power Among Men: Fugues and Cantilenas
18. Prelude with Fugue Exposition (01:58)
19. Fugue No. 1 (01:35)
20. Ruins and Jungles (02:40)
21. Fugue No. 2 (03:30)
22. Joyous Pastorale (02:08)
23. Finale (04:18)

Music Composed by Virgil Thomson
Played by The New London Orchestra
Conducted by Ronald Corp

Scene from Robert Flaherty’s "Louisiana Story". No, this is not about Katrina.

Download Link (FLAC, re-up) – https://dfiles.eu/files/0v094l8kz

Source: Hyperion Classics CD (my rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 245 MBv (incl. cover & booklet)

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The sound balance is odd as it is very weak in places on both discs, but this is wonderful Americana with plentiful melodious folk ballads and good enough match the works of Copland I think. Thanks for sharing Wimpel, and for the bonus too.

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So sorry I missed this. Probably should have been born earlier but I’d be dead by now.

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I have a physical copy of this somewhere but haven’t been able to locate it. Thank you for supplying this!

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