Joyce DiDonato - In War & Peace - Harmony through Music (2016) [Hi-Res]
Artist: Joyce DiDonato
Title: In War & Peace - Harmony through Music
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Erato / Warner Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks, booklet) [96kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 01:19:09
Total Size: 1.36 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: In War & Peace - Harmony through Music
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Erato / Warner Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks, booklet) [96kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 01:19:09
Total Size: 1.36 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
War
01. Handel: Jephta - Some dire event hangs o'er our heads (Storge)
02. Leo: Andromaca - Prendi quel ferro, o barbaro! (Andromaca)
03. Handel: Giulio Cesare - Vani sono i lamenti... Svegliatevi nel core (Sesto)
04. Purcell: The Indian Queen - They tell us that you mighty powers above (Orazia)
05. Handel: Agrippina - Pensieri, pensieri, voi mi tormentate (Aggripina)
06. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Thy hand, Belinda... When I am laid inearth (Dido)
07. Handel: Rinaldo - Lascia ch'io pianga (Almirena)
Peace
08. Purcell: Bonduca, or The British Heroine - Oh! lead me to some peaceful gloom (Bonvica)
09. Handel: Rinaldo - Augelletti, che cantate (Almirena)
10. Jommelli: Attilio Regolo - Sprezza il furor del vento (Regolo)
11. Purcell: The Indian Queen - Why should men quarrel (Girl)
12. Jommelli: Attilio Regolo - Par che di giubilo (Attila)
13. Handel: Susanna - Lead me, oh lead me to some cool retreat (Susanna)
14. Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria - Illustratevi, o cieli (Penelope)
15. Handel: Giulio Cesare - Da tempeste il legno infranto (Cleopatra)
“Perhaps my most personal project to date,” is how American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato describes In War and Peace: Harmony through Music. Her ambitions for this collection of arias from Baroque operas are substantial. Surrounded as we are by instability, she hopes it will help us find an answer to a vitally important question: “In the midst of chaos, how do you find peace?”
Her aim is to “steer conversation and discourse … to help all of us find peace in our lives in a dynamic way … As I have tried to convey in this selection of music, the power to bravely tip the scales towards peace lies firmly within every single one of us.”
In War and Peace: Harmony through Music was recorded with Il Pomo d’Oro under its principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev. The programme comprises 15 arias divided into two sections: ‘War’ and ‘Peace’. Both contain music by Purcell and Handel – including, to close ‘War’, Dido’s dignified, but searing lament from Dido and Aeneas and Almirena’s haunting and heartbreaking ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ from Rinaldo. An excerpt from Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse is included in ‘Peace’, which concludes with Cleopatra’s spirited and defiantly optimistic ‘Da tempeste il legno infranto’ from Giulio Cesare. A further aria from Giulio Cesare is the bonus track for the album; it is Sesto’s touching apostrophe to hope, ‘Cara speme’, which Joyce DiDonato sings unforgettably on a floating whisper of breath.
With 20 concerts in 12 countries between November 2016 and June 2017, Joyce DiDonato and Il Pomo d’Oro will bring alive the message of In War and Peace: Harmony through Music. In November they will be in Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Austria, Finland and Canada; in December in the USA; in May in France and Germany, and in June in Spain, Ireland and the Czech Republic.
„It is a remarkable package that DiDonato offers: a mezzo cast in milk chocolate, so smooth and agile that it can reach up to a diamond-bright soprano as well as sink to a rich, chesty alto. And then there is the instinctive charisma: she is always engaging and always intelligently shaping the verse and text.“ (The Times, London)
„Elegant, unaffected and enchanting.“ (Opera News)
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Il Pomo D'oro
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor
Her aim is to “steer conversation and discourse … to help all of us find peace in our lives in a dynamic way … As I have tried to convey in this selection of music, the power to bravely tip the scales towards peace lies firmly within every single one of us.”
In War and Peace: Harmony through Music was recorded with Il Pomo d’Oro under its principal conductor Maxim Emelyanychev. The programme comprises 15 arias divided into two sections: ‘War’ and ‘Peace’. Both contain music by Purcell and Handel – including, to close ‘War’, Dido’s dignified, but searing lament from Dido and Aeneas and Almirena’s haunting and heartbreaking ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ from Rinaldo. An excerpt from Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse is included in ‘Peace’, which concludes with Cleopatra’s spirited and defiantly optimistic ‘Da tempeste il legno infranto’ from Giulio Cesare. A further aria from Giulio Cesare is the bonus track for the album; it is Sesto’s touching apostrophe to hope, ‘Cara speme’, which Joyce DiDonato sings unforgettably on a floating whisper of breath.
With 20 concerts in 12 countries between November 2016 and June 2017, Joyce DiDonato and Il Pomo d’Oro will bring alive the message of In War and Peace: Harmony through Music. In November they will be in Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Austria, Finland and Canada; in December in the USA; in May in France and Germany, and in June in Spain, Ireland and the Czech Republic.
„It is a remarkable package that DiDonato offers: a mezzo cast in milk chocolate, so smooth and agile that it can reach up to a diamond-bright soprano as well as sink to a rich, chesty alto. And then there is the instinctive charisma: she is always engaging and always intelligently shaping the verse and text.“ (The Times, London)
„Elegant, unaffected and enchanting.“ (Opera News)
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Il Pomo D'oro
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor
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