Songplay - Vinyl Edition
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Steve Barnett (percussion), Jimmy Madison (drums), Craig Terry (piano), Chuck Israels (double bass), Charlie Porter (trumpet), Charlie Porter (flugelhorn), Lautaro Greco (bandonéon), Craig Terry (harpsichord)
Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
The real twist here is that DiDonato retains the ‘formality’ of her operatic sound and delivery while attempting to apply a jazzer’s instincts. So her singerly embellishments rub shoulders with...
Songplay - Vinyl Edition
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Steve Barnett (percussion), Jimmy Madison (drums), Craig Terry (piano), Chuck Israels (double bass), Charlie Porter (trumpet), Charlie Porter (flugelhorn), Lautaro Greco (bandonéon), Craig Terry (harpsichord)
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Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
The real twist here is that DiDonato retains the ‘formality’ of her operatic sound and delivery while attempting to apply a jazzer’s instincts. So her singerly embellishments rub shoulders with...
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Joyce DiDonato greets you with a song in her heart and twinkle in her eye. The American mezzo-soprano’s album Songplay unites world-class musicians from the varied worlds of opera, jazz and tango in the pure pleasure of improvisation, experimentation and
exchange. Together they create their own musical language, surprising listeners with timeless melodies transformed and universal stories retold over centuries; songs in English, in Italian and – naturally – in the universal language of music.
Contents and tracklist
Side A
1. Parisotti / Rossa: Se tu m’ami/Star vicino
2. Giuseppe Torelli: Tu Lo Sai
3. Allie Wrubel (music) & Herbert Magidson (lyrics): (I am afraid) the masquerade is over
4. George Shearing (music) & George David Weiss (lyrics): Lullaby of Birdland
Side B
1. Antonio Vivaldi: opera Arsilda, regina di Ponto, RV 700, Act 1, Scene 3: Col piacer della mia fede (Nicandro)
2. Kennedy Edward Ellington alias Duke Ellington (music) & Edgar Eddie DeLange + Mills Irving (lyrics): (In My) Solitude
3. Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Cantata for voice and basso continuo: aria finale: Quella Fiamma
4. Giovanni Paisiello: Opera La Molinara R 1.76, also called L'amor contrastato, Act. 2, Sc. ND: Nel cor più non mi sento (Rachelina)
5. Richard Rodgers (music) & Lorenz Hart (lyrics): from Spring Is Here: With a Song in my heart
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Awards and reviews
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Opus Klassik Awards2019Winner - Female Singer of the Year
March 2019
The real twist here is that DiDonato retains the ‘formality’ of her operatic sound and delivery while attempting to apply a jazzer’s instincts. So her singerly embellishments rub shoulders with jazz improv to achieve a deliberately provocative and (to my mind) unsettling dynamic...The Italian numbers generally sound happier than the American ones.
May 2019
DiDonato’s intent to revive the playful, liberating potential behind singing about love immediately is apparent... The ensemble’s performance is nothing short of exemplary, too, begging return plays of DiDonato’s adventurous exploration of the canon...
