COMPANY: Pentatone
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Discover poetry in motion with Beauty Come Dancing, composer Gordon Getty’s new album of choral works. Love and dance permeate this collection of new music, paying homage to the romantic and elegant traditions abounding in the latter half of the 19th century. Here, Getty finds inspiration in the poetry of John Keats, Lord Byron, John Masefield, Sara Teasdale, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Ernest Christopher Dowson. These settings sit alongside choral treatments of three of Getty’s original poems, plus his arrangement of traditional favorite “Shenandoah.” Rising-star conductor James Gaffigan leads the Netherlands Radio Choir and Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in PENTATONE’s beautiful recording.

January 2019

Gordon Getty’s music is fluent and lyrical, reminiscent of the first half of the 20th century; but when he gets a good idea, the choral lines are repeated continually and often have the quality of a recitative. Where the interest comes is in Getty’s flair for orchestration which colours his writing; chorally the thematic material is sparse. His most successful piece is the title track Beauty Come Dancing. The Netherlands Radio Choir and Orchestra give a flawless performance.

December 2018

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