Four Saints in Three Acts

Album by Virgil Thomson & Gertrude Stein & Orchestra of Our Time & Joel Thome

Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by American composer Virgil Thomson, first performed in 1934. The music is modernist and often tonal, with spare orchestration, speech-like vocal lines and clear rhythmic patterns, and the work occupies an early place in Thomson's output and in the development of American opera.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Prologue
    10:42
  2. 2.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I, Tableau 1. "Saint Teresa in a storm at Avila"
    5:46
  3. 3.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I, Tableau 2. "Saint Teresa could be photographed"
    1:56
  4. 4.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I, Tableau 3. "Saint Teresa as a young girl being widowed" / "Many saints seen"
    2:41
  5. 5.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I, Tableau 4. "Could all four saints not only be in brief"
    3:26
  6. 6.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I, Tableau 5. "Saint Ignatius could be in porcelain"
    3:25
  7. 7.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I, Tableau 6. "A scene and withers"
    3:01
  8. 8.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act I, Tableau 7. "Saint Teresa has been with him"
    4:21

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II. "Act two... Saint Ignatius was very well known"
    4:55
  2. 3.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II. "How many saints are there in it"
    4:27
  3. 4.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act II. "Scene eight... To wait"
    11:17
  4. 5.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III. "With withdrawn"
    4:01
  5. 6.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III. "Pigeons on the grass alas"
    12:21
  6. 7.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III. "Scene five... Alive"
    1:12
  7. 8.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III. "Once in a while and where and where around"
    2:08
  8. 9.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III. "One two three as one"
    6:56
  9. 10.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act III. Intermezzo
    1:35
  10. 11.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Prologue to Act IV. "Act four... How many acts are there in it"
    1:51
  11. 12.
    Four Saints in Three Acts: Act IV. "One at a time regularly"
    3:47

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