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Virko Baley: Music For Emily Dickinson - Uniforms Of Snow; Ten Songs Without Words

Lucy Shelton; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft; Cleveland Chamber Symphony; Virko Baley

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Format: CD

Cat No: TOCC0681

Release Date:  01 September 2023

Label:  Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060113446817

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

Composer/Series:  Virko Baley

  • Description

    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 Part.