DONIZETTI / BELLINI
Bel Canto Operas: Lucrezia Borgia / I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Complete operas recorded 2011/12) San Francisco Opera / Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong, Joyce DiDonato, Nicole Cabell / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "Fleming seems fired by the theatricality of a reviled female character who commands every dramatic situation she encounters...DeShong is a powerful vocal and dramatic presence as Orsini" (Gramophone) |
MARK ADAMO
Little Women (complete opera recorded in 2000) Stephanie Novacek / Joyce DiDonato / Chad Shelton / Stacey Tappan / Houston Grand Opera Orchestra / Patrick Summers [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "It's expertly staged and acted, and interesting to see the young Joyce DiDonato in repertoire far removed from her familiar one." (BBC Music) |
Jake HEGGY / Gene SCHEER
Here / After - Songs of Lost Voices Steven Costello, Joyce DiDonato, Nathan Gunn, Talise Trevigne, Carol Wincenc (flute), The Alexander String Quartet [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 21/Oct/2013 ] "Though Heggie's thematic ideas might seem a bit commonplace on first hearing, listeners are advised to stay alert to each song's last note. Invariably, one is ambushed by the music's cumulative effect...Performances by longtime Heggie collaborators |
Tutty Moreno feat. Joyce
Magica [ Far Out / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
100 Piano Masterpieces Frank Braley, Paul Lewis, Alexander Melnikov, Olga Kern, Javier Perianes, Alain Planes, Beatrice Rana, Joyce Yang, etc [ Harmonia Mundi / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Aug/2019 ] "It's an appealing package of six discs, each with a brightly-coloured sleeve. Equally colourful is the music selection, which features a veritable royal family of keyboard stars." BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Classical 2013 Various Artists incls Joyce DiDonato, Simon Rattle, Philippe Jaroussky, Alison Balsom, Rolando Villazon and many others [ EMI / Virgin Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] With over 2.5 hours of classical favourites, this double album features the best and most popular names in classical music from the catalogues of both Virgin Classics and EMI Classics, including a number of brand new recordings by exciting young artists. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Opera 2012 [2 CD set] Various Artists including Angela Gheorghiu, Rolando Villazon,Diana Damrau, Joyce diDonato, David Daniels, etc [ EMI Music / 2 CD - released 2/Apr/2012 ] The excitement of opera in 2012:- recordings by artists who will be performing this repertoire in teh world's major opera houses this year. |
KREUTZER / BACH / BRAHMS / MOZART / SCHUBERT / RICHARD STRAUSS
Long Road Home William Barnewitz (French horn) with Carol Anderson (piano) Anne-Carolyn Bird (soprano) Margaret Butler (oboe) Joyce DiDonato (soprano) etc [ Avie / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] “Bill Barnewitz's platonically beautiful reading of the long horn melody in the second movement was the signal event in a performance that took the high road to big emotional impact.” – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi (complet opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Olga Kulchynska, Benjamin Bernheim, Roberto Lorenzi / Fabio Luisi (cond) [ Accentus Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2015 ] The story of Romeo and Juliet, who pay for their passion with their lives, has been interpreted in the widest variety of literary and musical genres ever since the Renaissance. Vincenzo Bellini's much too rarely staged Romeo and Juliet opera, I... |