A Certain Slant of Light: Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson

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[Tilson Thomas’s] spacious text-setting and assured, imaginative orchestrations compellingly evoke the oblique, revelatory quality of Dickinson’s verse. Lisa Delan, a committed champion of American... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 18th May 2018
Catalogue No: PTC5186634
Label: Pentatone
Length: 51 minutes

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Copland: Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson

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Lisa Delan (soprano)
Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Foster
Recorded: June and July 2017
Recording Venue: Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

8 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 1, Nature, the Gentlest Mother

Track length3:43

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8 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 2, There Came a Wind like a Bugle

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8 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 3, The World Feels Dusty

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8 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 4, Heart, We Will Forget Him

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8 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 5, Dear March, Come In!

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8 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 6, Sleep Is Supposed to Be

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8 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 7, Going to Heaven!

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8 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 8, The Chariot

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Heggie: Newer Every Day (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra)

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Lisa Delan (soprano)
Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Foster
Recorded: June and July 2017
Recording Venue: Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

Newer Every Day (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra): No. 1, Silence

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Newer Every Day (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra): No. 2, I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

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Newer Every Day (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra): No. 3, Fame

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Newer Every Day (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra): No. 4, That I Did Always Love

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Newer Every Day (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra): No. 5, Goodnight

Track length3:31

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Getty: 4 Dickinson Songs (Version for Voice & Orchestra)

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Lisa Delan (soprano)
Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Foster
Recorded: June and July 2017
Recording Venue: Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

4 Dickinson Songs (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 1, Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers

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4 Dickinson Songs (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 2, A Bird Came down the Walk

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4 Dickinson Songs (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 3, There's a Certain Slant of Light

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4 Dickinson Songs (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 4, Because I Could Not Stop for Death

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Thomas, M T: Poems of Emily Dickinson (Excerpts)

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Lisa Delan (soprano)
Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Foster
Recorded: June and July 2017
Recording Venue: Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

Poems of Emily Dickinson (Excerpts): Down Time's Quaint Stream

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Poems of Emily Dickinson (Excerpts): The Bible

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Poems of Emily Dickinson (Excerpts): Fame

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Poems of Emily Dickinson (Excerpts): The Earth Has Many Keys

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Poems of Emily Dickinson (Excerpts): Take All Away from Me

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The exceptional nature and musicality of Emily Dickinson’s poetry has attracted many composers. A Certain Slant of Light features musical settings of Dickinson poems by four outstanding American composers: Aaron Copland, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie and Michael Tilson Thomas. The collection of songs featured on this album reveals the diversity of Dickinson’s oeuvre, as well as the rich 20th and 21st-century tradition of American art song composition. These songs are interpreted by the renowned American soprano Lisa Delan, together with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille under the baton of Lawrence Foster.

Delan has been featured on varied PENTATONE releases, including three American song recitals. Reviewing Delan’s 2016 recording Out of the Shadows, critics praised her “musicianship and responsiveness to the text” (Gramophone), “scrupulous and passionate accounts” (New Music Connoisseur), “liquid emotion and straightforward braininess” (Blog Critics), and “clarity and rhetorical relevance” (The Rehearsal Studio). Opera News noted “It's gratifying to find a singer involved so intimately and actively with the music of her time” and Music Web International added “Lisa Delan is probably one of the most versatile singers now before the public”.

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August 2018

[Tilson Thomas’s] spacious text-setting and assured, imaginative orchestrations compellingly evoke the oblique, revelatory quality of Dickinson’s verse. Lisa Delan, a committed champion of American art song, has a technique which admirably suits the sentimental-humorous style of this repertoire, often recalling music theatre. The glowing, sparkling orchestral sound is a good foil to her, especially in Tilson Thomas’s settings.

10th June 2018

This highly American disc brings together Emily Dickinson songs by four composers, beginning with Copland’s orchestrations. Both he and Gordon Getty select Because I Could Not Stop for Death, but against Copland’s solemn rhapsody Getty’s version is a kind of genial dance of death.

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