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Gordon Getty: The White Election

PTC 5186 054

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Stereo / Multichannel
NEW RELEASE

Playing time: 70'30"
Tracks: 32
Booklet pages: 31
© 2009 PentaTone Music bv
Received: 9 July 2009

Listen: I Cannot Live With You (track 16, 0:00-1:00)

Lisa Delan, soprano
Fritz Steinegger, piano

Gordon Getty (born 1933):
The White Election
A cycle of 32 songs on poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Part One: The Pensive Spring

1 I Sing to Use the Waiting (major setting)
2 There is a Morn by Men Unseen
3 I had a Guinea Golden
4 If She Had Been the Mistletoe
5 New Feet Within My Garden Go
6 She Bore It
7 I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
8 I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend

Part Two: So We Must Meet Apart

9 There Came a Day at Summer's Full
19 The First Day's Night Had Come
11 The Soul Selects Her Own Society
12 It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up
13 When I Was Small, a Woman Died
14 I Cried at Pity, Not at Pain
15 The Night Was Wide
16 I Cannot Live With You

Part Three: 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 Shawll Not Murmur

Part Four: 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 (minor setting)

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