Virko Baley: Music For Emily Dickinson
Label: TOCCATA CLASSICS Catalog: TOCC0681 Format: COMPACT DISC Hoft, Timothy; Pollick, Karen Bentley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony; Shelton, Lucy; Baley, VirkoVirko 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. Price: $29.98 |