Here — even more strongly than in the previous works — the flow of the music is more dictated by the flow of the words than vice versa. The result is more strophic music, fascinating in its tension and release from phrase to phrase, clearly the work of a mature composer in full control of his material…. Getty’s music, here, has the fine delicacy of Dresden china and a rhythmic quirkiness fully in keeping with Dickinson’s equally quirky word-painting, and nowhere is this clearer than in the final song, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”…A disc well worth acquiring. All of these pieces are good, with pride of place going to the Heggie and Getty song cycles.