“There’s a certain slant of light” is a poem of Emily Dickinson, set to music by Gordon Getty, and it gives this disc its title.... Fanfare readers may already know that I am a fan of the music of Gordon Getty. His extremely conservative style (though not without an occasional injection of Modernism) is used at the service of a genuine melodic gift. This particular cycle of four of Dickinson’s poems was composed in 2008, some 27 years after his larger Dickinson cycle The White Election. It is interesting to compare Getty’s setting of "I could not stop for Death" with Copland’s. Copland seems to focus on the wandering mind of the subject riding in the chariot, where as Getty amplifies the relentless tread of the horses taking that journey to eternity.