BRAHMS / DVORAK / HAHN / STRAUSS / etc
Morgen: Songs For Cello & Piano Andrew Joyce (cello), Rae de Lisle (piano) [ Atoll Records / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] The return of one of New Zealand's favourite pianists. This is a special album for Rae de Lisle, who has created it with her son-in law Andrew (NZSO's Principal Cello) and daughter Julia (Principal Viola with the NZSO). |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette / Cléopâtre Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Cyrille Dubois (ten), Christopher Maltman (bar) / Coro Gulbenkian, Chœur de l'OnR, Philharmonique de Strasbourg, John Nelson [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] "What makes Hector Berlioz such a great composer?", asks conductor John Nelson. "In one word, originality ... He broke all existing traditions of orchestration, structure, harmonic language and storytelling. Even today, his music is fresh, surprising... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Colbran, the Muse Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Edoardo Muller [ Erato / Virgin Classical / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] "DiDonato is proving herself one of the most delightful artists of our time. She sings with a rare purity of tone, ease on the high Bs, an impressive degree of technical skill and lively powers of characterisation." Gramophone Awards 2010 WINNER -... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Le Comte Ory (complete opera recorded in 2011) Metropolitan Opera / Juan Diego Flórez, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato / Maurizio Benini (cond) [ Virgin Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] "The terrific cast was headed by the tenor Juan Diego Flórez as Ory..The soprano Diana Damrau brought her lustrous, agile coloratura soprano voice, and charisma galore, to Adèle." (NY Times) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The King's Singers - When You Wish Upon a Star: 100 Years of Disney Songs The King's Singers, with Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Pene Pati (tenor), Pene Pati (tenor), Edgar Moreau (cello), Lucienne Renaudin Vary (trumpet) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Featuring songs from Disney's most iconic animated films from every decade, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937 through the hits of 2020 |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Fantastique Berlioz [3 CD set] Simon Rattle, Renaud Capuçon, .Leonard Bernstein, Kent Nagano, Joyce DiDonato, Riccardo Muti, John Barbirolli, Louis Fremaux, Janet Baker, etc [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] Hector Berlioz, France's greatest Romantic composer, exemplifies the spirit of his age - yet his genius was also ahead of its time. Reflecting his colourful life, his music is astonishing for its originality and ambition, and for orchestration of... |
COMEDY CLASSICS
The Driving Instructor: 20 comedy classics Bob Newhart, Tom Lehrer, Lenny Bruce, Joyce Grenfell, Peter Sellers, Max Miller, etc [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] The very best of nostalgia comedy recorded 1932-1960. |
JACK HEGGIE
Heggie: Great Scott (complete opera recorded in 2015) Dallas Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Perez, Frederica von Stade, Anthony Roth Costanzo / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a "deeply moving and musically brilliant work" that "should enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick - already have". |
JULE STYNE
Styne: Sugar Robert Morse, Tony Roberts & Elaine Joyce / Original 1972 Broadway Cast Recording [ Kritzerland / CD - released 17/May/1990 ] Sugar is a 1972 musical with a book by Peter Stone, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The musical is based on the 1959 film Some Like It Hot, which was adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from a story by Robert Thoeren and... |
JAKE HEGGIE
Passing By: Songs by Jake Heggie Isabel Bayrakdarian / Zheng Gao / Susan Graham / Joyce diDonato / Frederica von Stade / Paul Groves / Keith Phares / etc. [ Avie Records / CD - released 12/Oct/2010 ] "...the composer's own fluent piano-playing, an expert string group and a good if sometimes over-glossy recording provide support for some world-class singers...who are clearly revelling in the opportunities that Heggie has offered them here." BBC... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / COLE PORTER / ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN / etc
The Best Of The John Wilson Orchestra The John Wilson Orchestra, with Kim Criswell, Louise Dearman, Joyce DiDonato, Anne-Jane Casey & others [ Warner classics / 2 CD - released 5/Dec/2018 ] The Best of The John Wilson Orchestra - a double-album celebrating a decade of BBC Proms performances with a selection of hit songs and music from Hollywood's greatest movie musicals. Featuring Seth MacFarlane, Curtis Stigers, Joyce DiDonato plus a... |
JULE STYNE
Styne: Bar Mitzvah Boy (1978) Joyce Blair & Harry Towb / Original London Cast Recording [ Sony West End / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] Bar Mitzvah Boy is a musical with a book by Jack Rosenthal, lyrics by Don Black, and music by Jule Styne. Based on Rosenthal's award-winning 1976 BBC1 teleplay of the same name, it focuses on young Eliot Green who, filled with apprehension,... |
JACK HEGGIE
Heggie: Great Scott (complete opera) Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Pérez, Frederica von Stade, Nathan Gunn / Orchestra and Chorus of The Dallas Opera, Patrick Summers [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/2018 ] "[Heggie's] gift for creative partnerships is supreme...The conceit gets DiDonato singing watery pastiche Bellini, scaling coloratura flights, surviving a mad scene and crooning in velvet; all pleasing to hear" Times |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Agrippina (complete opera) Joyce DiDonato, Elsa Benoit, Biagio Pizzuti, Franco Fagioli, Andrea Mastroni, Jakub Józef OrliĆski / l Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Erato Classics / 3 CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "With DiDonato nonpareil in the title-role and a uniformly strong cast, this now becomes a first choice for Handel's Venetian masterpiece." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Opera |
DVORAK / STRAVINSKY / RICHARD STRAUSS / BERNSTEIN / SHOSTAKOVICH
New Year's Eve Concert 2017 BLU-RAY Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Apr/2018 ] With her flexible, slender but dark-timbred mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato is the star guest at Sir Simon Rattle's side during the New Year's Eve Concert, singing Richard Strauss's lavishly beautiful orchestral songs. The programme also includes works... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / JAKE HEGGIE / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / GUILLAUME LEKEU
Into the Fire: Live at Wigmore Hall Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Brentano Quartet [ Erato Classics / CD - released 5/Sep/2018 ] "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 |
HANDEL / JOMMELLUI / LEO / MONTEVERDI / PURCELL
In War & Peace: Harmony Through Music Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] "In War & Peace' finds DiDonato back on Baroque ground for the first time in a while, and it's a joyful musical homecoming. ..Drama, as ever with DiDonato, is everything. Ornamentation serves narrative first, ego second." Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 |
IVES / MAHLER / COPLAND / CAVALLI / GLUCK / HANDEL / MYSLIVECEK / etc
Joyce DiDonato - Eden Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Erato Classics / Warner Classics / CD - released 25/Jan/2022 ] "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 Editor's Choice March 2022 |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Winterreise Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano) [ Erato Classics / Warner Classics / CD - released 22/Oct/2021 ] "Her quieter word paintings, ushering in pained memories, can be exquisite. When cold winds arrive, we shiver on cue. And the last song, with the organ-grinder grinding away unheeded on the ice, is as devastating as ever." The Times |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Radamisto (complete opera recorded in 2005) Joyce DiDonato, Patrisia Ciofi, Maitre Beaumont, Carlo Lepore / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Virgin classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2009 ] "Joyce DiDonato alluring in the title role of Handel's Radamisto" BBC Music Magazine, December 2005 |
Joyce Grenfel
The Songs And Monologues Of Joyce Grenfell [ EMI Gold / CD - released 18/Sep/2000 ] |
SCARLATTI / CURRIER / DEBUSSY / SCHUMANN / LIEBERMANN
Joyce Yang: Collage Joyce Yang (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 3/Oct/2011 ] "This is an intriguingly programmed recital from a young South Korean pianist with strong hands and big ideas...Her playing offers impressive moments" BBC Music |
BARTOK / HINDEMITH / RACHMANINOV / SCHUMANN
Wild Dreams Joyce Yang (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 11/Mar/2014 ] "Yang gives us the 1931 version [of the Rachmaninov Sonata], and what a memorable account it has turned out to be, too. She ladles on the passion with commendable aplomb, while achieving some enviable finesse and individuality in the central movement |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Theodora (complete oratorio) Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Michael Spyres, John Chest / Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev [ Erato / 3 CD Box Set - released 18/Nov/2022 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Nomination 2023 - Choral |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La donna del lago (complete opera recorded in 2015) Metropolitan Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Florez, Daniela Barcellona, John Osborn / Michele Mariotti (cond) [ Erato DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Dec/2015 ] The Metropolitan Opera give this live performance of Rossini's work based on the poem by Sir Walter Scott, with Joyce DiDonato as Elena, the lady of the lake, who loves the heroic Malcolm (Daniela Barcellona). |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini:Norma (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Sondra Radvanovsky, Joseph Calleja, Matthew Rose / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Erato Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Nov/2018 ] To open the Met's 2017-18 season, powerhouse soprano Sondra Radvanovsky tackled one of opera's most fearsome roles, the title druid priestess of Bellini's Norma, who wrestles with love and betrayal before making the ultimate sacrifice on a funeral... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust Michael Spyres, Joyce DiDonato, Nicolas Courjal, Alexandre Duhamel / Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 22/Nov/2019 ] "The most dramatic piece that Berlioz ever wrote," is how conductor John Nelson describes La Damnation de Faust. The composer designated this thrilling hybrid of oratorio and opera a 'légende dramatique'. Following in the triumphant footsteps of Les... |
HANDEL / CAVALLI / MONTEVERDI / STROZZI / LANDI / CARISSIMI
Handel: Arcadian Duets / Various: Lamenti Natalie Dessay, Veronique Gens, Patrizia Ciofi, Joyce DiDonato, Philippe Jaroussky / Le Concert d'Astrae, Emmanuelle Haim [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 4/Feb/2018 ] "they relish the expressive potential of the amorous texts and Handel's piercing dissonances, abetted by the varied colours and light, springing rhythms of the continuo group.Handel-singing surely doesn't come much better than that." ***** BBC Music |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart Operas Box Set: Don Giovanni / Die Zauberflöte / Le Nozze di Figaro [complete operas recorded 2003-2008] Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Simon Keenlyside, Kyle Ketelsen, Miah Persson, Joyce DiDonato, Dorothea Röschmann, Erwin Schrott, etc [ Opus Arte DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2014 ] "…as flames rage over the opening cast credits, Sir Charles Mackerras conducts an incandescent Overture which kindles the brilliance, clarity and indefatigable energy of his music direction throughout." (BBC Music on Don Giovanni) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Simon Keenlyside / Kyle Ketelsen / Miah Persson / Ramón Vargas / Joyce DiDonato / Charles Mackerras (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "If one of the cast it to be named above the rest, that should be Joyce DiDonato, an outstandingly accomplished Elvira, brilliantly projected, interestingly conceived, her singing concentrated in tone." (Gramophone) |
ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies Sierra Boggess, Anna Jane Casey, Joyce DiDonato, Maria Ewing, Julian Ovenden / The John Wilson Orchestra & Maida Vale Singers, John Wilson [ EMI Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] John Wilson and his orchestra have become a regular highlight at the BBC Proms, selling out faster than any other proms and bringing the house down each time. Their second appearance in 2010 was A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein which is... |
ANNA AKHMATOVA
Anna Akhmatova: Three Works Terence ONeill-Joyce (narrator) wih Alexander Ivashkin (cello) [ Ode Records / CD - released 9/Jun/2008 ] For the people of Russia Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) is a legend. She was one of the Great Russian poets, a real link between the culture of the so called Silver Age (1900-1914) - and the Soviet era. During the Soviet Era her books were almost... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
50 Best Handel Various Artists incls Arleen Auger, Max Emaanuel Cencic, Alan Curtis, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Emmanuelle Haim, Richard Hickox, etc [ Erato / Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 4/Apr/2011 ] This 3 CD set offers an impressive assortment of well-known and beloved works by one of the greatest Baroque composer, Georg Friedrich Handel. This collection features performances by prestigious artists of some of his best loved works including... |
Joyce / Rosinha Da Valencia
Aldeia De Ogum / Summertime (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 30/Aug/2024 ] Rio-born, Joyce Moreno, is one of the greatest Brazilian artists of all time. The voice, the playing, the writing, they all combine to make her a true allrounder. She possesses the ability to transport, captivate and transcend listeners. With a... |
MOZART / HAYDN
Jeunehomme Alexandre Tharaud (piano) / Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie, with Joyce DiDonato [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] "Alexandre Tharaud is an atmospheric, characterful pianist whose individuality seems to communicate best on CD … Vivid imagination meets deliciously poised pianism." Nicholas Kenyon, The Observer, Sunday 24 November 2013 Tharaud returns with a an... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Stabat Mater Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ EMI Records / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "The pairing of Anna Netrebko and Joyce DiDonato is a match made in heaven...This is one of the great choral recordings." Gramophone 2011 Award WINNER - Editor's Choice |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Amor E Gelosia: Handel Duets Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 7/Jun/2014 ] "All are most beautifully sung by Patrizia Ciofi and Joyce DiDonato, who has just the right firmness and focus for a castrato role; both phrase beautifully, articulate and express the words clearly and tellingly" (Gramophone Editor's Choice) |
MONTEVERDI / HANDEL / GLUCK / KEISER / ORLANDINI
Drama Queens: Royal Arias from the 17th and 18th Centuries Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) / Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Vocal |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Gioachino Rossini Edition (50 CD set) Gabriel Bacquier, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Gedda, Maria Callas, Cecilia Bartoli, Joyce DiDonato, Rockwell Blake, Beverly Sills, Thomas Hampson, etc [ Warner Classics / 50 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2018 ] The Rossini Edition is the most comprehensive edition devoted to Rossini ever produced. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Cenerentola (complete opera recorded in 2009) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Florez, Bruno De Simone / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Decca Music Group DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Oct/2012 ] Tenor superstar, Juan Diego Flórez, adds the role of Prince Ramiro in Rossini's sparkling comedy 'La Cenerentola', to his rapidly growing catalogue of performances on Decca DVD. Taking the title role in one of Rossini's most popular operas is one... |