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Gramophone Magazine
March 2022
Editor's Choice

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev

Ives, C: The Unanswered Question
Portman: The First Morning of the World
Mahler: Ich atmet' einen linden Duft (Rückert-Lieder)
Marini, B: Con le stelle in ciel che mai
Myslivecek: Toglierò le sponde al mare (from Adamo ed Eva)
Copland: Nature, the gentlest mother (No. 1 from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)
Valentini, Giovanni: Sonata Enharmonica
Cavalli: Piante ombrose (from La Calisto)
Gluck: Danza degli spettri e delle furie (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
Gluck: Misera, dove son...Ah! non son io (from Ezio). Misera, dove son! & Ah! non son io che parlo
Handel: As With Rosy Steps (from Theodora)
Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)
Wagner: Schmerzen (No. 4 from Wesendonck-Lieder)
Handel: Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù (from Serse). Frondi tenere e belle & Ombra mai fù

EDEN is an invitation to return to our roots.It is an overture to engage with the sheer perfection of the world around us,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

Repertoire: from Handel to Ives, from Gluck to Mahler, exploring the majesty, might, and mystery of Nature through both arresting and evocative music, Joyce takes us on an emotional journey to reconnect to the power and fragility of Nature, exploring our place within the wondrous world around us.

On EDEN Joyce is joined by the original instrument ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro and Maxim Emelyanychev.

Rachel Portman’s piece is specially composed for Joyce DiDonato, a world premiere recording.

"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 Magazine, March 2022.