Into the Fire: Live at Wigmore Hall
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RICHARD STRAUSS / JAKE HEGGIE / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / GUILLAUME LEKEU
Into the Fire: Live at Wigmore Hall
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Brentano Quartet
[ Erato Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 5 September 2018
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
Recorded live at London's celebrated Wigmore Hall, this captivating recital by Joyce DiDonato and the Brentano Quartet was conceived around Jake Heggie's song cycle Camille Claudel: Into the Fire, a work written for DiDonato - she describes it as "one of most moving projects I've ever been part of". Songs by Debussy and Strauss and a quartet movement by Guillaume Lekeu complete the programme, which prompted the Financial Times to write that "the beauty and range" of DiDonato's singing "are surely now at their impressive peak."
"DiDonato and her collaborators here…carry the colour of voice and string quartet through the recital…And the highest compliment I can pay all three of the arrangers is that it sounds as if those sounds were conceived and swathed this way all along…[Into the Fire] is a wonderful calling card for DiDonato. Small wonder she has become something of a muse for Heggie." Gramophone Oct 2018
"both of these artists know how to deliver popular material with skill and grace...[in the Haydn] DiDonato's interpretative imagination matches Tony Pappano's thoughtful and pianistic approach...[Pappano] takes everything in his stride, throwing a few witty pianistic interjections into Irving Berlin's 'I Love a Piano' and generally enjoying himself to entertaining effect" BBC Music
"Last year's recital by the dream duo of Joyce DiDonato and Antonio Pappano works wonderfully as a double CD - arguably more effective than the concert itself...DiDonato's immaculate voice relishes every vowel sound, Pappano responds with pianistic wit and idiomatic invention. Ad libs and applause are judiciously included. All a delight." The Guardian
Tracks:
Strauss, R: Du meines Herzens Krönelein, Op. 21 No. 2
Strauss, R: All mein Gedanken ... Op. 21 No. 1
Strauss, R: Die Nacht, Op. 10 No. 3
Strauss, R: Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden!, Op. 21 No. 3
Strauss, R: Traum durch die Dämmerung, Op. 29 No. 1
Strauss, R: Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4
Lekeu: Molto Adagio for String Quartet
Debussy: Trois chansons de Bilitis
Heggie: Camille Claudel - Into the Fire
Gruber, F: Silent Night
