GORDON GETTY (b.1933): The White Election.

Catalogue Number: 05K089

Label: PentaTone

Reference: PTC 5186 054

Format: CD

Price: $18.98

Description: Getty's cycle of 32 Emily Dickinson settings comprises a kind of portrait of the poet in her own words, and to that end the texts are set simply and directly so that their odd, evocative imagery and word-painting can be appreciated as readily as when read or spoken. The composer's intention, as he says, is to have set the poems as Dickinson herself (who seems to have had some musical ability) might have done, though she appears to have left no written attempts to do so; Getty's avowedly tonal idiom is set to natural use in emulating a 19th-century style with a slight waywardness or instability, suggesting the poet's vivid imagination straining against the fetters of conventional respectability. Texts included. Lisa Delan (soprano), Fritz Steinegger (piano). SACD hybrid.

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