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Joyce DiDonato: Eden (CD)

Joyce DiDonato: Eden (CD)
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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.

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Joyce DiDonato’s Eden is a wide-ranging musical exploration of humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Joined by Il Pomo d’Oro and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, DiDonato brings together repertoire spanning the 17th through 21st centuries, with music by Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler, George Frideric Handel, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Richard Wagner, Aaron Copland and others.

The album opens with Ives’ The Unanswered Question, in which DiDonato takes the role normally assigned to the solo trumpet, and includes the world-premiere recording of Rachel Portman’s The First Morning of the World, composed to a text by Gene Scheer especially for the Eden project. The program also draws on opera, oratorio, song and instrumental repertoire, including music by Josef Mysliveček, Francesco Cavalli, Biagio Marini and Giovanni Valentini.

Released by Erato in 2022, Eden grew from DiDonato’s larger international project of the same name, combining performance, education and environmental engagement to encourage reflection on humanity’s place within the natural world.

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