I was struck by a consistent feeling that Getty’s music springs from a single impulse born of each poem rather than the shifting beauty, complexity or inner music of their texts…The best work is the longest, ‘The Old Man in the Night’…In which the journey is often patient, nuanced and interesting.
Works
Getty: Ballet Russian
Getty: Beauty Come Dancing
Getty: For a Dead Lady
Getty: La Belle Dame sans Merci
Getty: Shenandoah
Getty: The Destruction of Sennacherib
Getty: The Old Man in the Morning
Getty: The Old Man in the Night
Getty: There Was A Naughty Boy
Getty: Those Who Love the Most
Conductors
Gaffigan, James
Groups & Artists
Netherlands Radio Choir
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra