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The White Election

Lisa Delan (Soprano), Fritz Steinegger (Piano)
2007, San Rafael, Skywalker Sound

  • Part I: The Pensive Spring

    • 1. I Sing to Use the Waiting (major setting)
      01:26
    • 2. There is a Morn by Men Unseen
      02:47
    • 3. I had a Guinea Golden
      03:31
    • 4. If She had been the Mistletoe
      01:14
    • 5. New Feet Within My Garden Go
      01:34
    • 6. She Bore It
      03:05
    • 7. I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
      01:20
    • 8. I Should Not Dare to Leave My Friend
      01:36

  • Part II: So Must We Meet Apart

    • 1. There Came at Summer's Full
      03:20
    • 2. The First Day at Night Had Come
      03:01
    • 3. The Soul Selects Her Own Society
      01:42
    • 4. It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up
      02:48
    • 5. When I Was Small A Woman Died
      02:47
    • 6. I Cried at Pity, Not at Pain
      02:38
    • 7. The Night was Wide
      02:25
    • 8. I Cannot Live With You
      04:51

  • Part III: Almost Peace

    • 1. My First Well Day, Since Many Ill
      03:26
    • 2. It Ceased to Hurt Me
      01:28
    • 3. I Like to See It Lap the Miles
      01:38
    • 4. Split the Lark and You'll Find the Music
      01:19
    • 5. The Cricket Sang
      01:53
    • 6. After a Hundred Years
      01:42
    • 7. The Clouds their Backs Together Laid
      01:07
    • 8. I Shall Not Murmur
      01:23

  • Part IV: My Feet Slip Nearer

    • 1. The Grave My Little Cottage Is
      01:15
    • 2. I Did Not Reach Thee
      03:48
    • 3. My Wars are Laid Away in Books
      01:47
    • 4. There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
      01:43
    • 5. The Going from a World We Know
      01:56
    • 6. Upon his Saddle Sprung a Bird
      00:43
    • 7. Beauty Crowds Me
      01:44
    • 8. I Sing to Use the Waiting
      02:11

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