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Baley: Music for Emily Dickinson
Toccata

Baley: Music for Emily Dickinson

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Details

Composer
Virko Baley
Artist
Lucy Shelton, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
Format
CD
Label
Toccata
Released
Sep 01, 2023
Catalog #
TOCC0681
UPC
5060113446817

About

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 21 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Intrada and Song Without Words 04:46
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Intrada and Song Without Words
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  2. 2 No. 2. Love Can Do All But Raise the Dead 02:42
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Love Can Do All But Raise the Dead
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Lucy Shelton
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  3. 3 No. 3. Oh, Honey of an Hour 00:59
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Oh, Honey of an Hour
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Lucy Shelton
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  4. 4 No. 4. I Held a Jewel in My Fingers 02:39
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. I Held a Jewel in My Fingers
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Lucy Shelton
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  5. 5 No. 5. Interlude 1 01:05
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Interlude 1
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  6. 6 No. 6. There Is a Solitude of Space 04:23
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. There Is a Solitude of Space
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Lucy Shelton
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  7. 7 No. 7. Out of Sight? What of That? 02:24
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Out of Sight? What of That?
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Lucy Shelton
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  8. 8 No. 8. "Hope" Is the Thing With Feathers 03:02
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. "Hope" Is the Thing With Feathers
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Lucy Shelton
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  9. 9 No. 9. There Is a Pain - So Utter 03:22
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. There Is a Pain - So Utter
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Lucy Shelton
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  10. 10 No. 10. Interlude 2: Tren 03:01
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. Interlude 2: Tren
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  11. 11 No. 11. Epilogue: Little Cousins 07:08
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11. Epilogue: Little Cousins
    Duration
    07:08
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Lucy Shelton
    Ensemble
    Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    Conductor
    Virko Baley
  12. 12 No. 1. Love Can Do All but Raise the Dead 02:48
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 1. Love Can Do All but Raise the Dead
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
  13. 13 No. 2. Oh, Honey of an Hour 01:01
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 2. Oh, Honey of an Hour
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
  14. 14 No. 3. There Is a Solitude of Space 05:15
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 3. There Is a Solitude of Space
    Duration
    05:15
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
  15. 15 No. 4. L'allegro 02:06
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 4. L'allegro
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
  16. 16 No. 5. There Is a Languor 05:09
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 5. There Is a Languor
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
  17. 17 No. 6. Out of Sight? What of That? 01:43
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 6. Out of Sight? What of That?
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
  18. 18 No. 7. Der Abschied 09:59
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 7. Der Abschied
    Duration
    09:59
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
  19. 19 No. 8. It Struck Me Every Day 02:59
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 8. It Struck Me Every Day
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
  20. 20 No. 9. There Is a Pain - So Utter 03:16
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 9. There Is a Pain - So Utter
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
  21. 21 No. 10. A Poem for Aleks 05:05
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 10. A Poem for Aleks
    Duration
    05:05
    Composer
    Virko Baley
    Performer
    Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft