The complete songs of Virgil Thomson for voice and piano.
(Music CD)

Disc 1. 25 songs: Vernal equinox (1920, unpublished) (1:49) ; Ah, sunflower! (1920, unpublished) (1:18) ; Susie Asado (1926) (1:42) ; Preciosilla (1927) (4:05) ; Five songs from William Blake (1951). The divine image (2:33), The tiger (2:53), The land of dreams (3:05), The little black boy (4:01), And did those feet (3:01) ; Portrait of F.B. (Frances Blood) (1929) (5:58) ; La valse Grégorienne (1927) (2:09) ; Film, deux soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (1930) (5:01) ; The tiger (1926) (1:50) ; Le berceau de Gertrude Stein ou le mystère de la rue de Fleurus (1928) (3:20) ; Les soirées bagnolaises (1928, unpublished) (7:07) ; La belle en dormant (1931). Pour chercher sur la carte des mers (1:12), La première de toutes (1:21), Mon amour est bon à dire (1:23), Partis les vaisseaux (0:53) ; Trois poèmes de la Duchesse de Rohan (1928, #1 unpublished). À son Altesse La Princesse Antoinette Murat (1:52), La Seine (2:35), Jour de chaleur aux bains de mer (1:25) ; Air de Phèdre (1930) (6:09) ; Commentaire sur Saint Jérome (1928, unpublished) (1:05) ; Le singe et le léopard (1930) (3:33) --

Disc 2. 32 songs: At the Spring (1955) (1:32) ; Dirge (1939) (1:25) ; Shakespeare songs (1957). Was this fair face the cause? (2:19), Take, O, take those lips away (2:14), Tell me where is fancy bred (1:27), Pardon, Goddess of the Night (1:59), Sigh no more, ladies (2:34) ; Consider, Lord (1955) (1:35) ; The bell doth toll (1955) (1:39) ; Remember Adam's fall (1955) (2:45) ; John Peel (1955) (3:21) ; Look, how the floor of heaven (1955) (1:33) ; If thou a reason dost desire to know (1955-58) (2:47) ; Praises and prayers (1963). From the canticle of the sun (5:19), My master hath a garden (1:32), Sung by the shepherds (4:05), Before sleeping (2:32), Jerusalem, my happy home (3:25) ; Three sentences of Solomon (1924, unpublished). Thou that dwellest in the gardens (1:18), Return, o Shulamite! (1:38), I am my beloved's (1:00) ; Five phrases from the Song of Solomon (1926). Thou that dwellest in the gardens (:53), Return, o Shulamite! (1:16), O, my dove (1:05), I am my beloved's (1:14), By night (1:21) ; Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France, Reine de la Grande-Bretagne (1930/34, unpublished) (12:17) ; Mass for solo voice (1960). Kyrie eleison (2:19), Gloria in excelsis (3:35), Sanctus (1:05), Benedictus qui venit (0:40), Agnus dei (2:19) --

Disc 3. 20 songs: My shepherd will supply my need (1937/59) (4:17) ; Two by Marianne Moore (1963). English usage or "Strike till the iron is hot" (2:29), My crow Pluto or "Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings" (2:13) ; Go to sleep, Gabriel Liebowitz (1939, unpublished) (:55) ; The courtship of the Yongly-Bongly-Bo (1973) (6:35) ; Chamber music (1931, unpublished) (2:17) ; A lullaby for Margaret Wheeler (1987, unpublished) (1:16) ; From Sneden's Landing variations (1972) (2:04) ; What is it? (1979) (2:31) ; Go to sleep, Pare McTaggett Lorentz: a lullaby (1935, unpublished) (0:42) ; The cat (1980) (3:13) ; Tres estampas de Niñez (1957). Todas las horas (2:21), Son amigos de Todos (0:55), Nadie lo oye como Ellos (3:38) ; Go to sleep, Alexander Smallens, Jr. (1937, unpublished) (1:11) ; Mostly about love (1959). Love song (2:25), Down at the docks (2:08), Let's take a walk (1:24), A prayer to Saint Catherine (2:52) ; Collected poems (1959) (5:31).