Leo Smit
33 Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Leo
Smit
33 Songs on Poems of
Emily Dickinson; from The Ecstatic Pilgrimage
Childe Emilie (29:42)
The Celestial Thrush (23:17)
The White Diadem (11:35)
Rosalind Rees, soprano
Leo Smit, piano
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Leo Smit has an impressive pedigree as an American composer and musician. A
virtuoso pianist, he has worked closely with such legends as Stravinsky,
Balanchine, Copland and Stokowski. He has set more that 75 of Emily Dickinson’s
poems to music, grouping the works into cycles about related subject matter. The
disc contains the world premiere recordings of three of those cycles- Childe
Emilie- Memories and Fantasies of Childhood, The Celestrial Thrush- Songs of
Music and Bird, and The White Diadem- Songs About Poets and Poetry. Smit’s
songs display great sensitivity to Dickinson’s very personal world, and
reflect the poet’s emotional range by adopting an extremely colorful palette.
The songs frequently veer from the simple and tonal to more rhythmically complex
and chromatic settings, always alert to word and mood.
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