Joyce DiDonato: Eden (CD)

“I’m brought to tearful wonder by the album’s close. DiDonato’s farewell, ‘Ombra mai fù’ from Handel’s Serse, is a performance so beautiful that it makes your insides ache.” — Gramophone

“Eden is an invitation to return to our roots. It is an overture to engage with the sheer perfection of the world around us and to consider if we are connecting as profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being. It is a clarion call to contemplate if our collective suffering isn’t perhaps linked to the aching separation from something primal within and around us. This is a vivid musical exploration through the centuries to remember and to create a new Eden from within.” — Joyce DiDonato

Ives The Unanswered Question
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Il Pomo d’Oro

Portman The First Morning of the World
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Il Pomo d’Oro

Mahler Rückert-Lieder, “Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft”
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Il Pomo d’Oro

Marini Con le stelle in ciel chem ai
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord
Il Pomo d’Oro

Mysliveček Adamo ed Eva, “Toglierò le sponde al mare”
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord
Il Pomo d’Oro

Copland Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, “Nature, the gentlest mother”
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Il Pomo d’Oro

Valentini Sonata Enharmonica
Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord
Il Pomo d’Oro

Cavalli La Calisto, “Piante ombrose”
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord
Il Pomo d’Oro

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice, “Danza degli spettri e delle furie”
Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord
Il Pomo d’Oro

Gluck Ezio, “Misera, dove son . . . Ah! non son io”
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord
Il Pomo d’Oro

Handel Theodora, “As With Rosy Steps”
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord
Il Pomo d’Oro

Mahler Rückert-Lieder, “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Il Pomo d’Oro

Wagner Wesendonck-Lieder, “Schmerzen”
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Il Pomo d’Oro

Handel Serse, “Frondi tenere e belle . . . Ombra mai fù”
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord
Il Pomo d’Oro

Discs: 1
Record Label: Erato
Release Date: February 25, 2022