Film Scores: Thomson's Iconic Music for The Plough that Broke the Plains and The River, Complete

Angel Gil-Ordoñez and the Post-Classical Ensemble present these two stunning scores written in the mid 1930s, at the height of the Depression, in order to "sell" the New Deal to a skeptical country. Did the accompanying documentaries get the job done? Who knows? The music is wonderful, a microcosm of just about every American idiom you could think of, all brilliantly assembled, scored, and contrasted. Musical Examples courtesy of Naxos Records