TY  - SOUND
AU  - DiDonato,Joyce
AU  - Pappano,Antonio
AU  - Haydn,Joseph
AU  - Rossini,Gioacchino
AU  - Rossini,Gioacchino
AU  - Santoliquido,Francesco
AU  - De Curtis,Ernesto
AU  - Foster,Stephen Collins
AU  - Kern,Jerome
AU  - Kern,Jerome
AU  - Nelson,Havelock
AU  - Dougherty,Celius
AU  - Kern,Jerome
AU  - Moross,Jerome
AU  - Bolcom,William
AU  - Villa-Lobos,Heitor
AU  - Kern,Jerome
AU  - Rodgers,Richard
AU  - Kern,Jerome
AU  - Berlin,Irving
AU  - Arlen,Harold
TI  - Joyce & Tony: live at Wigmore Hall 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - [France]
PB  - Erato, Warner Classics
KW  - Solo cantatas, Secular (Medium voice)
KW  - Songs (Medium voice) with piano
KW  - Musicals
KW  - Excerpts, Arranged
KW  - Popular music
KW  - 2011-2020
KW  - Cantatas
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Songs
KW  - Art music
KW  - Excerpts
KW  - Live sound recordings
N1  - The 1st work is a cantata; the remaining works are either songs with piano or excerpts principally from musicals; Title from disc label; Program notes by Paul Griffiths and biographical notes, in English with French and German translations, and texts of Italian works with English translations (29 pages : color portraits) inserted in container; Arianna a Naxos / Joseph Haydn (19:47) -- Beltà crudele (4:45) ; La danza (3:10) / Gioachino Rossini -- I canti della sera. L'assiolo canta ; Alba di luna sul bosco ; Tristezza crepuscolare ; L'incontro / Francesco Santoliquido (10:09) -- Non ti scordar di me! / Ernesto De Curtis (3:53) -- Beautiful dreamer / Stephen Foster ; arr. David Krane (3:57) -- The siren's song (3:24) ; Go little boat (4:04) / Jerome Kern -- Lovely Jimmie / Havelock Nelson (3:29) -- Love in the dictionary / Celius Dougherty (2:46) -- Life upon the wicked stage / Jerome Kern (2:30) -- Lazy afternoon / Jerome Moross (2:45) -- Amor / William Bolcom (3:05) -- Food for thought / Heitor Villa-Lobos (2:13) -- Can't help lovin' dat man / Jerome Kern (3:19) -- My funny Valentine / Richard Rodgers (2:54) -- All the things you are / Jerome Kern (3:46) -- I love a piano / Irving Berlin (3:20) -- Over the rainbow / Harold Arlen (5:54); Stephen Johns, producer; Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano ; Antonio Pappano, piano
N2  - These two CDs were recorded live at the Wigmore Hall season-opener and at the repeat concert two days later. The first item on the programme was Haydn's dramatic cantata Arianna a Naxos (which, back in 2003, also launched DiDonato's debut recital at Wigmore Hall). As the Guardian wrote, DiDonato excelled in presenting "the abandoned heroine's progression from grief to fury with all her vocal skills to the fore and Antonio Pappano - rarely heard these days as an accompanist, but an absolute master of the art - seconding her every gesture." The Times described the interpretation as "incandescent ... Daring vocal pirouettes, vivid acting, wide dynamic swings, amazing breath control." Then came two songs by a composer who has played a defining role in Joyce DiDonato's operatic career - Rossini (her unforgettable collaboration with Pappano on Il barbiere di Siviglia at Covent Garden is captured on a Warner Classics DVD 5099969458194) - and four luscious late-Romantic numbers written in 1908 by the little-known Neapolitan composer Francesco Santoliquido
ER  -