Composer: Gordon Getty
Performer: Lisa Delan, Fritz Steinegger
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5186054
Release: 2009
Size: 1.2 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
The White Election
Part I: The Pensive Spring
01. I Sing to Use the Waiting (major setting)
02. There is a Morn by Men Unseen
03. I had a Guinea Golden
04. If She had been the Mistletoe
05. New Feet Within My Garden Go
06. She Bore It
07. I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
08. I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend
Part II: So Must We Meet Apart
09. There Came at Summer’s Full
10. The First Day at Night Had Come
11. The Soul Selects Her Own Society
12. It Was Not Death , For I Stood Up
13. When I Aas Small A Woman Died
14. I Cried at Pity, Not at Pain
15. The Night was Wide
16. I Cannot Live With You
Part III: Almost Peace
17. My First Well Day, Since Many Ill
18. It Ceased to Hurt Me
19. I Like to See It Lap the Miles
20. Split the Lark and You’ll Find the Music
21. The Cricket Sang
22. After a Hundred Years
23. The Clouds their Backs Together Laid
24. I Shall Not Murmur
Part IV: My Feet Slip Nearer
25. The Grave My Little Cottage Is
26. I Did Not Reach Thee
27. My Wars are Laid Away in Books
28. There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
29. The Going from a World We Know
30. Upon his Saddle Sprung a Bird
31. Beauty Crowds Me
32. I Sing to Use the Waiting
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.