Rejoyce! The Best of Joyce DiDonato (2013)
performed by
Anna Netrebko (soprano), Edgaras Montvidas (tenor), Elena Semenova (soprano), Europa Galante, Frederica Von Stade (mezzo-soprano), Il Complesso Barocco, Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Le Concert d'Astrée, Les Talens Lyriques, Nabil Suliman (bass)
composed by
Antonio Vivaldi, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claudio Monteverdi, Geminiano Giacomelli, George Frederick Handel, Gioachino Rossini, Giovanni Porta, Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Harold Arlen, Hector Berlioz, Jake Heggie, Richard Rodgers, Richard Strauss
In the unlikely event that any of Joyce DiDonato's exciting recordings for Erato have slipped by unnoticed, the label has helpfully organized this ample collection, partly as an introduction to this critically acclaimed mezzo-soprano, and partly as a reminder to fans of just how much she has recorded. This package requires two CDs to sample her repertoire, which includes dramatic roles in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, George Frederick Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as less familiar but ...
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In the unlikely event that any of Joyce DiDonato's exciting recordings for Erato have slipped by unnoticed, the label has helpfully organized this ample collection, partly as an introduction to this critically acclaimed mezzo-soprano, and partly as a reminder to fans of just how much she has recorded. This package requires two CDs to sample her repertoire, which includes dramatic roles in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, George Frederick Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as less familiar but significant composers as Giovanni Porta, Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, and Geminiano Giacomelli. Throughout, DiDonato demonstrates both her virtuosic vocal abilities and her bold characterizations. She is accompanied by Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée, Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante, and Kazushi Ono and the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon, so historically informed performance styles are sampled as...
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- Serse (Xerxes), opera, HWV 40: Frondi tenere... Ombra mai fu
- Serse (Xerxes), opera, HWV 40: Crude furie degl'orridi abissi
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Addio Roma
- Ercole, su'l Termodonte, opera, RV 710 (incomplete, but mostly extant): Non saria pena la mia
- Teseo, opera, HWV 9: Morirò, ma vendicata
- Rodelinda, regina de' Langobardi, opera, HWV 19: Io t'abbraccio
- Ariodante, opera, HWV 33: Scherza infida
- Radamisto, opera, HWV 12: Vanne, sorella ingrata
- Ifigenia in Aulide, opera: Madre diletta, abbracciami
- Berenice, opera in 3 acts: Col versar, barbaro, il sangue
- Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Where shall I fly?
- Merope, opera: Sposa, son disprezzata
- Teseo, opera, HWV 9: Addio, mio caro bene
- La clemenza di Tito, opera, K. 621: Parto, parto
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Voi che sapete
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Aprite, presto aprite
- Orphée et Eurydice (French version), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 41: Amour, viens rendre à mon âme
- Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: In quali eccessi, o Numi... Mi tradìquell'alma ingrata
- Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Una voce poco fa
- Maometto II, opera: Giusto ciel, in tal periglio
- Stabat mater for 2 sopranos, tenor, bass, chorus & orchestra: Quis est homo
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera: Ascolta! Se Romeo t'uccise un figlio... La tremenda ultrice spada
- La donna del lago (The Lady of the Lake), opera: Tanti affetti in tal momento... Fra il padre, e fra l'amante
- La Damnation de Faust, for mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, chorus and orchestra ("légende dramatique"), H. 111 (Op. 24): D'amour l'ardente flamme
- La cenerentola (Cinderella), opera: Nacqui all'affanno
- Ariadne auf Naxos, opera, Op. 60-I (TrV 228) (original version): Seien wir wieder gut!
- Dead Man Walking, opera: You've been so good to him and all of us... Who will walk with me?
- Carousel, musical: You'll Never Walk Alone
- The Sound of Music, musical: Climb Ev'ry Mountain
- Dead Man Walking, opera
- The Wizard of Oz, film score: Over the Rainbow
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