Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Virko Baley: Music for Emily Dickinson (2023) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Virko Baley: Music for Emily Dickinson (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:53 minutes | 683 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

Virko Baley was born in Ukraine in 1938 and came to the USA as a refugee in 1949, eventually making his home in Las Vegas. He has long been fascinated by the poetry of Emily Dickinson, as can be heard in the two moving works recorded here – one an orchestral song-cycle setting her texts, the other a suite for violin and piano inspired by those settings. They display an acute ear for orchestral colour, a fondness for dramatic gesture and a strong sense of lyricism, occasionally inflected by distant echoes of Baley’s eastern European origins, the richness of the song-cycle placing him downstream from Mahler and Berg and the restraint of the Songs without Words occasionally evoking Arvo Pärt.

Tracklist:

01. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 1, Intrada – Song Without Words (04:45)
02. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 2, Love Can Do All but Raise the Dead (02:41)
03. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 3, Oh Honey of an Hour (00:59)
04. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 4, I Held a Jewel in My Fingers (02:38)
05. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 5, Interlude I (01:05)
06. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 6, There Is a Solitude of Space (04:23)
07. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 7, Out of Sight? What of That? (02:24)
08. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 8, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers (03:02)
09. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 9, There Is a Pain, So Utter (03:21)
10. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 10, Interlude II “Tren” (03:01)
11. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 11, Epilogue “Little Cousins” (07:07)
12. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 1, Love Can Do All but Raise the Dead (02:48)
13. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 2, Oh, Honey of an Hour (01:01)
14. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 3, There Is a Solitude of Space (05:14)
15. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 4, L’allegro (02:06)
16. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 5, There Is a Languor (05:08)
17. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 6, Out of Sight? What of That? (01:42)
18. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 7, Der Abschied (09:58)
19. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 8, It Struck Me Every Day (02:59)
20. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 9, There Is a Pain – So Utter (03:16)
21. Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft – Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 10, A Poem of Aleks (05:05)

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