The White Election - A Cycle of 32 Songs for Soprano and Piano on Poems by Emily Dickinson

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The White Election - A Cycle of 32 Songs for Soprano and Piano on Poems by Emily Dickinson
Lisa Delan (soprano) / Fritz Steinegger (piano)

[ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD ]

Release Date: Saturday 1 August 2009

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This is a song cycle for soprano and piano by a living American composer (born 1933) on poems by Emily Dickinson. It is assumed that Emily Dickinson may have improvised accompaniments for her poems, but no proof exists. Gordon Getty has tried to imagine how she might have done this.

Tracks:

Part One: The Pensive Spring
1 I Sing to Use the Waiting (major setting) 1. 24
2 There is a Morn by Men Unseen 2. 44
3 I had a Guinea Golden 3. 30
4 If She Had Been the Mistletoe 1. 12
5 New Feet Within My Garden Go 1. 34
6 She Bore It 3. 01
7 I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed 1. 18
8 I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend 1. 32

Part Two: So We Must Meet Apart
9 There Came a Day at Summer's Full 3. 17
10 The First Day's Night Had Come 2. 59
11 The Soul Selects Her Own Society 1. 40
12 It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up 2. 47
13 When I Was Small, a Woman Died 2. 46
14 I Cried at Pity, Not at Pain 2. 35
15 The Night Was Wide 2. 23
16 I Cannot Live With You 4. 50

Part Three: Almost Peace
17 My First Well Day, Since Many Ill 3. 24
18 It Ceased to Hurt Me 1. 25
19 I Like to See it Lap the Miles 1. 36
20 Split the Lark and You'll Find the Music 1. 16
21 The Cricket Sang 1. 50
22 After a Hundred Years 1. 39
23 The Clouds Their Backs Together Laid 1. 05
24 I Shawll Not Murmur 1. 20

Part Four: My Feet Slip Nearer
25 The Grave My Little Cottage Is 1. 12
26 I Did Not Reach Thee 3. 44
27 My Wars Are Laid Away in Books 1. 45
28 There Came a Wind Like a Bugle 1. 41
29 The Going From a World We Know 1. 53
30 Upon His Saddle Sprung a Bird 0. 40
31 Beauty Crowds Me 1. 41
32 I Sing to Use the Waiting (minor setting) 2. 10

Total playing time: 70. 30