℗ 2023 Toccata Classics
| Released | September 1, 2023 |
| Duration | 1h 14m 43s |
| Record Label | Toccata Classics |
| Catalogue No. | TOCC 0681 |
| Genre | Classical (Art Song) |
Virko Baley: Music for Emily Dickinson
Lucy Shelton, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Virko Baley, Karen Bentley Pollick, Timothy Hoft
Available in 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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Uniforms of Snow for soprano and chamber orchestra
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1.1
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I. Intrada and Song Without Words
Virko Baley; Lucy Shelton; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
4:45 | |||
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1.2
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II. ‘Love can do all but raise the Dead’
Virko Baley; Emily Dickinson; Lucy Shelton; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
2:41 | |||
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1.3
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III. ‘Oh, honey of an hour’
Virko Baley; Emily Dickinson; Lucy Shelton; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
0:59 | |||
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1.4
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IV. ‘I held a Jewel in my fingers’
Virko Baley; Emily Dickinson; Lucy Shelton; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
2:38 | |||
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1.5
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V. Interlude 1
Virko Baley; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
1:05 | |||
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1.6
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VI. ‘There is a solitude of space’
Virko Baley; Emily Dickinson; Lucy Shelton; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
4:23 | |||
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1.7
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VII. ‘Out of sight? What of that?’
Virko Baley; Emily Dickinson; Lucy Shelton; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
2:24 | |||
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1.8
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VIII. ‘”Hope” is the thing with feathers’
Virko Baley; Emily Dickinson; Lucy Shelton; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
3:02 | |||
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1.9
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IX. ‘There is a pain – so utter’
Virko Baley; Emily Dickinson; Lucy Shelton; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
3:21 | |||
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1.10
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X. Interlude 2: Tren
Virko Baley; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
3:01 | |||
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1.11
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XI. 'Epilogue: Little Cousins'
Virko Baley; Emily Dickinson; Lucy Shelton; Virko Baley; Cleveland Chamber Symphony |
7:07 | |||
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Ten Songs without Words for violin and piano
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1.12
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No. 1 Love can do all but raise the Dead
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
2:48 | |||
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1.13
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No. 2 Oh, honey of an hour
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
1:01 | |||
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1.14
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No. 3 There is a solitude of space
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
5:14 | |||
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1.15
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No. 4 L'Allegro
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
2:06 | |||
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1.16
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No. 5 There is a Languor
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
5:08 | |||
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1.17
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No. 6 Out of Sight? What of that?
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
1:42 | |||
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1.18
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No. 7 Der Abschied
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
9:58 | |||
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1.19
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No. 8 It struck me every Day
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
2:59 | |||
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1.20
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No.9 There is a pain so utter
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
3:16 | |||
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1.21
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No. 10 Poem for Aleks
Virko Baley; Karen Bentley Pollick; Timothy Hoft |
5:05 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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Virko Baley was born in Ukraine in 1938 and came to the USA as a refugee in 1949, eventually making his home in Las Vegas. He has long been fascinated by the poetry of Emily Dickinson, as can be heard in the two moving works recorded here – one an orchestral song-cycle setting her texts, the other a suite for violin and piano inspired by those settings. They display an acute ear for orchestral colour, a fondness for dramatic gesture and a strong sense of lyricism, occasionally inflected by distant echoes of Baley’s eastern European origins, the richness of the song-cycle placing him downstream from Mahler and Berg and the restraint of the Songs without Words occasionally evoking Arvo Pärt.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Toccata Classics Studio Masters
Tracks 1-21 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM
Tracks 1-21 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -5.20 -13.89 to -0.71 | -27.98 -34.49 to -21.67 | -23.61 -30.50 to -17.20 | 14 11 to 21 | |
| 1 | I. Intrada and Song Without Words | -0.71 | -25.28 | -17.6 | 15 |
| 2 | II. ‘Love can do all but raise the Dead’ | -6.37 | -27.71 | -24.5 | 13 |
| 3 | III. ‘Oh, honey of an hour’ | -6.40 | -27.04 | -22.4 | 13 |
| 4 | IV. ‘I held a Jewel in my fingers’ | -0.74 | -29.57 | -24.6 | 21 |
| 5 | V. Interlude 1 | -1.37 | -21.67 | -17.2 | 12 |
| 6 | VI. ‘There is a solitude of space’ | -11.30 | -32.33 | -28.5 | 12 |
| 7 | VII. ‘Out of sight? What of that?’ | -1.12 | -24.11 | -20.1 | 12 |
| 8 | VIII. ‘”Hope” is the thing with feathers’ | -8.25 | -29.43 | -25.8 | 13 |
| 9 | IX. ‘There is a pain – so utter’ | -2.09 | -25.72 | -20.2 | 14 |
| 10 | X. Interlude 2: Tren | -10.42 | -30.24 | -26.1 | 12 |
| 11 | XI. 'Epilogue: Little Cousins' | -1.45 | -29.40 | -24.7 | 18 |
| 12 | No. 1 Love can do all but raise the Dead | -13.89 | -34.49 | -30.5 | 11 |
| 13 | No. 2 Oh, honey of an hour | -6.30 | -26.13 | -21.6 | 13 |
| 14 | No. 3 There is a solitude of space | -8.18 | -31.30 | -27.3 | 15 |
| 15 | No. 4 L'Allegro | -4.04 | -24.87 | -21.3 | 14 |
| 16 | No. 5 There is a Languor | -6.63 | -29.98 | -25.6 | 14 |
| 17 | No. 6 Out of Sight? What of that? | -5.11 | -25.24 | -21.4 | 14 |
| 18 | No. 7 Der Abschied | -2.96 | -28.27 | -24.2 | 17 |
| 19 | No. 8 It struck me every Day | -2.92 | -25.88 | -21.9 | 14 |
| 20 | No.9 There is a pain so utter | -4.27 | -29.58 | -25.7 | 17 |
| 21 | No. 10 Poem for Aleks | -4.76 | -29.24 | -24.6 | 14 |