Leo Smit <br> Songs on Poems of Emily Dickinson <BR> BRIDGE 9080Leo 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

“Michael Oelbaum makes an impressive debut

she has sung a wide variety of leading roles with the Vienna State Opera

all of which one associates

he won the Rachmaninoff Prize

Chen completed a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard University

" - People's World

is also in three movements

OF COMPOSER SUPERVISED RECORDINGS MADE DURING THE PAST 40 YEARS

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

Ignatz Moscheles

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Jacques Thibaud