Baley: Music for Emily Dickinson

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
September 1, 2023
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Virko Baley
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Cleveland Chamber Symphony
    • PERFORMER
      Lucy Shelton, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 2023
    • UPC
      5060113446817
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0681
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Art Song
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Intrada and Song Without Words

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    2. No. 2. Love Can Do All But Raise the Dead

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Performer: Lucy Shelton

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    3. No. 3. Oh, Honey of an Hour

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Performer: Lucy Shelton

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    4. No. 4. I Held a Jewel in My Fingers

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Performer: Lucy Shelton

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    5. No. 5. Interlude 1

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    6. No. 6. There Is a Solitude of Space

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Performer: Lucy Shelton

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    7. No. 7. Out of Sight? What of That?

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Performer: Lucy Shelton

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    8. No. 8. "Hope" Is the Thing With Feathers

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Performer: Lucy Shelton

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    9. No. 9. There Is a Pain - So Utter

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Performer: Lucy Shelton

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    10. No. 10. Interlude 2: Tren

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    11. No. 11. Epilogue: Little Cousins

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Ensemble: Cleveland Chamber Symphony

      Performer: Lucy Shelton

      Conductor: Virko Baley

    12. No. 1. Love Can Do All but Raise the Dead

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

    13. No. 2. Oh, Honey of an Hour

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

    14. No. 3. There Is a Solitude of Space

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

    15. No. 4. L'allegro

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

    16. No. 5. There Is a Languor

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

    17. No. 6. Out of Sight? What of That?

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

    18. No. 7. Der Abschied

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

    19. No. 8. It Struck Me Every Day

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

    20. No. 9. There Is a Pain - So Utter

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft

    21. No. 10. A Poem for Aleks

      Composer: Virko Baley

      Performer: Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft


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.