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Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato describes EDEN as "an invitation to return to our roots...an overture to contemplate the sheer perfection of the world around us, and to explore whether or not we are connecting as profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being." Most of the song texts refer to nature, giving the album a vaguely environmentalist tinge. As a basis for musical exploration, it all seems so general that it would be of little use. Yet this is DiDonato's genius. She has a real gift for bringing together musical materials in the most unexpected ways, and she does so with special intensity here. The program gets underway with Ives' The Unanswered Question (DiDonato indicates that the pandemic has filled her above all with questions), and its solo part is sung, not played by a trumpet. How does DiDonato get from there to Biagio Marini and Josef Mysliveček (she gleefully moves from very familiar pieces to ones that are all but unknown)? Listen and learn. There is new music and music from the early 17th century, the Baroque, the Classical period, Wagner, Mahler, and it all seems a single gesture. Part of her method is to set the motor rhythms of the music of earlier eras against the greater flexibility of the later pieces. DiDonato poses great challenges with all this to the small chamber orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro under conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, and they step up to those challenges admirably. The sound from the Teatro Comunale di Lonigo opera house in Italy is ideal. It may be that, after all, DiDonato achieves her lofty goals here; at the very least, this is a vocal-orchestral recital with greater variety than anything else one is likely to hear these days in the genre, and it is good to see that her adventurousness has been rewarded with commercial success.
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Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Charles Ives, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Rachel Portman, Composer - Gene Scheer, Poet - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Gustav Mahler, Composer - Friedrich Rückert, Poet - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Biago Marini, Composer - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Josef Myslivecek, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble - Giovanni Granelli, Poet
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Aaron Copland, Composer - Walter de la Mare, Poet - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Giovanni Valentini, Composer - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Francesco Cavalli, Composer - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Giovanni Faustini, Poet - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Poet - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Pietro Metastasio, Poet - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Russell Mael, Producer - Ron Mael, Producer - Pietro Metastasio, Poet - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Thomas Morell, Poet - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Gustav Mahler, Composer - Friedrich Rückert, Poet - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Richard Wagner, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Mathilde Wesendonck, Poet - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Silvio Stampiglia, Poet - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Niccoló Minato, Poet - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
George Frideric Handel, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Silvio Stampiglia, Poet - Il Pomo d'Oro, MainArtist - Niccoló Minato, Poet - Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor, Harpsichord, MainArtist - Il pomo d’oro, Ensemble
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Beautiful Chorus, Composer, Chorus, MainArtist
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited Under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited, an Erato/Warner Classics release, ℗ 2022 Beautiful Chorus LLC
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Mike Roberts, Composer - Canterbury Choir, Bishop Ramsey School, Choir, MainArtist - Guildhall Session Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Canterbury Choir Bishop Ramsey School, Composer
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato Release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
Album review
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato describes EDEN as "an invitation to return to our roots...an overture to contemplate the sheer perfection of the world around us, and to explore whether or not we are connecting as profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being." Most of the song texts refer to nature, giving the album a vaguely environmentalist tinge. As a basis for musical exploration, it all seems so general that it would be of little use. Yet this is DiDonato's genius. She has a real gift for bringing together musical materials in the most unexpected ways, and she does so with special intensity here. The program gets underway with Ives' The Unanswered Question (DiDonato indicates that the pandemic has filled her above all with questions), and its solo part is sung, not played by a trumpet. How does DiDonato get from there to Biagio Marini and Josef Mysliveček (she gleefully moves from very familiar pieces to ones that are all but unknown)? Listen and learn. There is new music and music from the early 17th century, the Baroque, the Classical period, Wagner, Mahler, and it all seems a single gesture. Part of her method is to set the motor rhythms of the music of earlier eras against the greater flexibility of the later pieces. DiDonato poses great challenges with all this to the small chamber orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro under conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, and they step up to those challenges admirably. The sound from the Teatro Comunale di Lonigo opera house in Italy is ideal. It may be that, after all, DiDonato achieves her lofty goals here; at the very least, this is a vocal-orchestral recital with greater variety than anything else one is likely to hear these days in the genre, and it is good to see that her adventurousness has been rewarded with commercial success.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:16:12
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Joyce DiDonato Il Pomo D'oro Maxim Emelyanychev
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Warner Classics
- Genre: Classical
A Warner Classics/Erato release, © 2022 Parlophone Records Limited A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2022 Parlophone Records Limited
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