GETTY,G.: Cycle of 32 Songs for Soprano and Piano (SACD)

The White Election
A Cycle of 32 Songs for Soprano and Piano
Composed by Gordon Getty
(born 1933)
On Poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Lisa Delan, Soprano
Fritz Steinegger, PianoPart One: The Pensive Spring1     I Sing to Use the Waiting (major setting)     1. 242     There is a Morn by Men Unseen     2. 443     I had a Guinea Golden     3. 304     If She Had Been the Mistletoe     1. 125     New Feet Within My Garden Go     1. 346     She Bore It     3. 017     I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed     1. 188     I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend     1. 32      Part Two: So We Must Meet Apart9     There Came a Day at Summer’s Full     3. 1710     The First Day’s Night Had Come     2. 5911     The Soul Selects Her Own Society     1. 4012     It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up     2. 4713     When I Was Small, a Woman Died     2. 4614     I Cried at Pity, Not at Pain     2. 3515     The Night Was Wide     2. 2316     I Cannot Live With You     4. 50      Part Three: Almost Peace17     My First Well Day, Since Many Ill     3. 2418     It Ceased to Hurt Me     1. 2519     I Like to See it Lap the Miles     1. 3620     Split the Lark and You’ll Find the Music     1. 1621     The Cricket Sang     1. 5022     After a Hundred Years     1. 3923     The Clouds Their Backs Together Laid     1. 0524     I Shawll Not Murmur     1. 20      Part Four: My Feet Slip Nearer25     The Grave My Little Cottage Is     1. 1226     I Did Not Reach Thee     3. 4427     My Wars Are Laid Away in Books     1. 4528     There Came a Wind Like a Bugle     1. 4129     The Going From a World We Know     1. 5330     Upon His Saddle Sprung a Bird     0. 4031     Beauty Crowds Me     1. 4132     I Sing to Use the Waiting (minor setting)     2. 10      Total playing time:     70. 30