Joyce & Tony : live at Wigmore Hall / Joce DiDonato, Antonio Papano.
Material type: MusicPublisher number: 0825646107896 | EratoSpoken language: English, Italian Original language: English, Italian, German Publisher: [France] : Erato : Warner Classics, [2015]Copyright date: ℗2015Description: 2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Joyce and Tony
- Live at Wigmore Hall
- Stephen Johns, producer.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD | Main Library | CD | CLASSICAL DiDonato, Joyce & Antonio Papano | Available | 33111008651313 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Something about the Kansas-born mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato makes British audiences roll over and put their paws in the air, and this frothy but enjoyable recital gives additional indications about what it is. The album is taken from a pair of live recitals at London's Wigmore Hall, and the Erato label deserves credit for a sound environment that captures the relaxed quality of the events. Simply, DiDonato has the confidence to master whatever she tackles, and it's infectious. Known for muscular pieces like the little-known Haydn scene that opens the program, she shifts easily to semi-popular and popular songs as if it were the most natural thing in the world. The songs of composer Francesco Santoliquido, one click toward art song from what is usually understood by the term "Neapolitan song" (although Santoliquido was from Naples), are rarely performed, but DiDonato and her accompanist "Tony" (Antonio Pappano) are pitch-perfect in their lightly affecting quality. The second CD of the double set (and presumably the second recital of the original pair) is devoted to American song, from Stephen Foster to songs reflecting DiDonato's Irish heritage (despite the surname), and here again clarity, humor (from both musicians), and a relaxed quality are the watchwords. A superior light recital. ~ James Manheim
The 1st work is a cantata; the remaining works are either songs with piano or excerpts principally from musicals.
Sung in English and Italian.
Title from disc label.
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano ; Antonio Pappano, piano.
Recorded live 2014 September 6 and 8 At Wigmore Hall, London.
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.
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.