Lucy Shelton: Music for Emily Dickinson - COMPACT DISCS

Lucy Shelton: Music for Emily Dickinson - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Music for Emily Dickinson

Artist:

Lucy Shelton

Label:

Toccata

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5060113446817

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2023-09-01

Number of Discs:

1

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.

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