Kaaren Erickson, Armen Guzelimian - Getty: The White Election (1988)

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Artist: Kaaren Erickson, Armen Guzelimian
Title: Getty: The White Election
Year Of Release: 1988
Label: Delos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:12:02
Total Size: 222 Mb
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Tracklist:

The White Election (Gordon Getty)
01. Pt. I: The Pensive Spring: I Sing to Use (00:01:08)
02. Pt. I: The Pensive Spring: There Is a Morn (00:02:37)
03. Pt. I: The Pensive Spring: I had a Guinea (00:03:30)
04. Pt. I: The Pensive Spring: If She had been (00:01:05)
05. Pt. I: The Pensive Spring: New Feet within (00:01:29)
06. Pt. I: The Pensive Spring: She Bore It (00:02:41)
07. Pt. I: The Pensive Spring: I Taste a Liquor (00:01:14)
08. Pt. I: The Pensive Spring: I should not Dare (00:01:31)
09. Pt. II: So Must We Meet Apart: There Came a Day (00:04:32)
10. Pt. II: So Must We Meet Apart: The First Day's Night (00:02:40)
11. Pt. II: So Must We Meet Apart: The Soul Selects (00:01:48)
12. Pt. II: So Must We Meet Apart: It was not Death (00:03:01)
13. Pt. II: So Must We Meet Apart: When I was Small (00:02:50)
14. Pt. II: So Must We Meet Apart: I Cried at Pity (00:02:31)
15. Pt. II: So Must We Meet Apart: The Night was Wide (00:02:22)
16. Pt. II: So Must We Meet Apart: I Cannot Live with you (00:05:29)
17. Pt. III: Almost Peace: My First Well Day (00:04:12)
18. Pt. III: Almost Peace: It Ceased to Hurt Me (00:01:29)
19. Pt. III: Almost Peace: I Like to See It (00:01:49)
20. Pt. III: Almost Peace: Split the Lark (00:01:38)
21. Pt. III: Almost Peace: The Crickets Sang (00:01:58)
22. Pt. III: Almost Peace: After a Hundred Years (00:02:01)
23. Pt. III: Almost Peace: The Clouds their Backs (00:01:13)
24. Pt. III: Almost Peace: I Shall not Murmur (00:01:33)
25. Pt. IV: My Feet Slip Nearer: The Grave my Little Cottage Is (00:01:31)
26. Pt. IV: My Feet Slip Nearer: I Did not Reach Thee (00:03:27)
27. Pt. IV: My Feet Slip Nearer: My Wars Are Laid away in Books (00:01:51)
28. Pt. IV: My Feet Slip Nearer: There Came a Wind (00:01:54)
29. Pt. IV: My Feet Slip Nearer: The Going from a World (00:01:59)
30. Pt. IV: My Feet Slip Nearer: Upon his Saddle Sprung a Bird (00:00:49)
31. Pt. IV: My Feet Slip Nearer: Beauty Crowds Me (00:01:40)
32. Pt. IV: My Feet Slip Nearer: I Sing to Use the Waiting (00:02:30)

Total length: 01:12:02
Label: Delos

Performers:
Kaaren Erickson (soprano)
Armen Guzelimian (piano)

Gordon Getty's Emily Dickinson cycle The White Election consists of settings of 32 of her poems. Getty notes that Dickinson frequently improvised on the piano, and speculates that she may have created settings of her poems, which she never notated, or that she may even have originally conceived of her poems as songs. He writes that his composition of the cycle was guided by his image of the music Dickinson herself may have composed. Getty's settings are simple in the extreme. He is skillful at text setting that sounds natural and that allows the words to be clearly understood. Few of the songs have a strong melodic profile, as if too-memorable melodies would draw attention away from the primacy of the texts. The recitative-like text setting is matched for the most part by a piano part whose function is to provide a spare harmonic framework for the melodies. When it does depart from its chordal role, the effect is dramatically effective. Getty makes little attempt at text painting with the piano writing, and the radical simplicity of the melody and accompaniment eventually causes the listener to adjust expectations and listen for the subtlest changes as having large dramatic and emotional import. It's also possible to hear the sameness as monotony -- much depends on the listener's predisposition. Soprano Kaaren Erickson has a full, warm voice and delivers a nuanced and fully committed performance. Pianist Armen Guzelimian plays the self-effacing piano part with discretion and an appropriate reticence.

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