Virko Baley - Dream Time (1996)

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Virko Baley - Dream Time (1996)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 322 Mb
Label: Cambra - Date: 1996

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Virko Baley
was born in Ukraine in 1938, but has spent his creative life in the United States and considers himself a citizen of the world. Multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary, he infuses his music with themes of contemporary and traditional motifs. Shirley Fleming, writing in the New York Post about a concert of his works given by CONTINUUM, called his music "vibrant, dramatic, communicative, much of it framed by extra-musical allusions that place it in a solid context". After the New York premiere of his Concerto No. 1, quasi una fantasia for violin by the New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs, conductor, Tom Teh Chiu, soloist, Village Voice critic Kyle Gann lauded the piece and its "sonic images memorable enough to take home". Virko Baley’s newest work to be released on TNC Recordings, Symphony No. 1: Sacred Monuments, was praised by David Hurwitz in ClassicsToday as "Powerfully imagined, clearly articulated, and quite moving…It's a very serious, ambitious statement by a gifted artist, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it turns out to have more staying power than many other contemporary works by today's trendier composers".

Baley's music training began in Germany and continued in the United States at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music (now California Institute of the Arts), where his principal teachers were Earle C. Voorhies and Morris H. Ruger. A composer, conductor and pianist, he is the recipient of the 1996 Shevchenko Prize for Music, awarded by the Ukrainian government, and also the 1996 State of Nevada Regents' Creative Award. As composer, Mr. Baley has received grants and commissions from numerous organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, New Juilliard Ensemble, Kiev Camerata, Project 1000 and the Winnipeg Symphony, Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Nevada Symphony, Continuum, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, California E.A.R. Unit, and from many individual artists.

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Tracks:

Virko Baley (*1938)

Dream Time

01. Through a Glass Darly [0:03:46.30]
02. The Stillness [0:04:54.67]
03. Tears [0:03:00.45]
04. Kaleidoscope [0:01:52.38]
05. West Wind [0:02:03.35]
06. Baroque Altar [0:03:23.22]
07. Lamentations [0:01:40.05]
08. The Lunatic and The Butterfly [0:06:25.37]
09. Kolomyika "A Dance" [0:02:28.53]
10. Parastas [0:04:29.33]
11. Palm of the Hand [0:00:56.60]
12. stamping Dance [0:03:58.65]
13. Kozak Mamai [0:02:14.07]
14. In the Labyrinth [0:07:26.13]
15. Adam's Apple [0:02:21.05]
16. Manao Tupapau [0:08:03.70]
17. The Sleep of Caliban [0:02:14.42]
18. The Hour of the Wolf [0:07:30.55]
19. Postludium: The Heart of Glass [0:06:39.08]

California E.A.R. Unit