Virko Baley: Music for Emily Dickinson Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

• Virko Baley (b. 1938): Uniforms of Snow:
• 1 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 1, Intrada - Song Without Words 04:45
• 2 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 2, Love Can Do All but Raise the Dead 02:41
• 3 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 3, Oh Honey of an Hour 00:59
• 4 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 4, I Held a Jewel in My Fingers 02:38
• 5 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 5, Interlude I 01:05
• 6 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 6, There Is a Solitude of Space 04:23
• 7 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 7, Out of Sight? What of That? 02:24
• 8 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 8, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers 03:02
• 9 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 9, There Is a Pain, So Utter 03:21
• 10 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 10, Interlude II "Tren" 03:01
• 11 Baley: Uniforms of Snow: No. 11, Epilogue "Little Cousins" 07:07
• 10 Songs Without Words:
• 12 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 1, Love Can Do All but Raise the Dead 02:48
• 13 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 2, Oh, Honey of an Hour 01:01
• 14 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 3, There Is a Solitude of Space 05:14
• 15 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 4, L'allegro 02:06
• 16 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 5, There Is a Languor 05:08
• 17 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 6, Out of Sight? What of That? 01:42
• 18 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 7, Der Abschied 09:58
• 19 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 8, It Struck Me Every Day 02:59
• 20 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 9, There Is a Pain - So Utter 03:16
• 21 Baley: 10 Songs Without Words: No. 10, A Poem of Aleks 05:05
• Total Runtime 01:14:43

Info for Virko Baley: Music for Emily Dickinson

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.

Lucy Shelton, soprano
Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Timothy Hoft, piano
Cleveland Chamber Orchestra
Virko Baley, conductor

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