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The sculptor Camille Claudel, radical experimentalist and lover and possible influencer of Rodin, has fascinated artists in various media ever since she was institutionalized under controversial circumstances. She has been played on film by both Isabelle Adjani and Juliette Binoche. Now it's the turn of American composer Jake Heggie, who wrote the titular song cycle here for the present performer, American mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato. The text by Gene Scheer, depicting several major artworks and turning points in Claudel's life, is highly evocative, and Heggie matches it with music that's complementary to the words and extremely flattering to DiDonato's voice. Sample "Shakuntala," which brings to life and into time Claudel's flowing, passionate sculpture of the same name. More radical than Heggie's work is the decision to let its medium, the combination of soprano and string quartet, "bleed" into the Richard Strauss and Debussy songs on the program, which are arranged for the same combination. Your mileage may vary on this, but in the live performance at London's Wigmore Hall, it helped build to Heggie's portrayal of Claudel's obsessive inner world. The audience's rapturous response to all this is retained, as are DiDonato's two encores, which have the relaxed quality (note the humorous false start of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer) of celebration after a job well done. Recommended.
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Richard Strauss, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Mark Steinberg, Transcriber - Felix Dahn, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited
Richard Strauss, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Mark Steinberg, Transcriber - Felix Dahn, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited
Richard Strauss, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Hermann Von Gilm, Poet - Mark Steinberg, Transcriber - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited
Richard Strauss, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Mark Steinberg, Transcriber - Felix Dahn, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited
Richard Strauss, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Otto Julius Bierbaum, Poet - Mark Steinberg, Transcriber - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited
Joyce DiDonato, MainArtist - Guillaume Lekeu, Composer - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Claude Debussy, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Transcriber - Pierre Louys, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Claude Debussy, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Transcriber - Pierre Louys, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Claude Debussy, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Transcriber - Pierre Louys, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Joyce DiDonato, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Composer - Gene Scheer, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Composer - Gene Scheer, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Composer - Gene Scheer, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Composer - Gene Scheer, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Composer - Gene Scheer, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Composer - Gene Scheer, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Joyce DiDonato, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Composer - Gene Scheer, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Jake HEGGIE, Composer - Gene Scheer, Poet - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Richard Strauss, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Mark Steinberg, Transcriber - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company A Warner Classics/Erato release, ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited
Franz Xaver Gruber, Composer - Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano Vocals, MainArtist - Brentano Quartet, String Quartet, Transcriber, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
Album review
The sculptor Camille Claudel, radical experimentalist and lover and possible influencer of Rodin, has fascinated artists in various media ever since she was institutionalized under controversial circumstances. She has been played on film by both Isabelle Adjani and Juliette Binoche. Now it's the turn of American composer Jake Heggie, who wrote the titular song cycle here for the present performer, American mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato. The text by Gene Scheer, depicting several major artworks and turning points in Claudel's life, is highly evocative, and Heggie matches it with music that's complementary to the words and extremely flattering to DiDonato's voice. Sample "Shakuntala," which brings to life and into time Claudel's flowing, passionate sculpture of the same name. More radical than Heggie's work is the decision to let its medium, the combination of soprano and string quartet, "bleed" into the Richard Strauss and Debussy songs on the program, which are arranged for the same combination. Your mileage may vary on this, but in the live performance at London's Wigmore Hall, it helped build to Heggie's portrayal of Claudel's obsessive inner world. The audience's rapturous response to all this is retained, as are DiDonato's two encores, which have the relaxed quality (note the humorous false start of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer) of celebration after a job well done. Recommended.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:28
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Joyce DiDonato
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Warner Classics
- Genre: Classical
© 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2018 Parlophone Records Limited, a Warner Music Group Company
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