Joyce DiDonato - Here/After: Songs of Lost Voices - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Joyce DiDonato - Cenerentola Cinderella [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/20/2005

In 1970, nine years after leaving the United States to study music in Canada, Beverly Glenn-Copeland released two self-titled albums. Both were a stunning showcase of classical and jazz acumen, layered with poetry and accompanied by some of the best players of the time. Original pressings now fetch thousands of dollars. Glenn-Copeland then vanished as a recording artist until his re-emergence in 1986 with the (just a few hundred copies on cassette) of what many now believe to be his masterpiece, Keyboard Fantasies. Marking the 35th anniversary, Transgressive reissues Keyboard Fantasies with updated artwork and liner notes by pop star, Robyn.

Life meets art Joyce DiDonato stars in a live world-premiere recording of an opera written for her Great Scott by Jake Heggie In Great Scott, the Kansas-born mezzo-soprano, one of today's best-loved classical singers, creates a role conceived specifically with her in mind. The character she plays, Arden Scott, just happens to be an opera star, and she is the lynchpin of what Fred Plotkin of WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a Inchdeeply moving and musically brilliant workInch that Inchshould enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man WalkingandMoby-Dick - already haveInch. Jake Heggie, who has been described as US opera's most successful composer, chose the celebrated playwright Terence McNally as his librettist for Great Scott. The two previously collaborated on the gripping Dead Man Walking, which has become something of a modern classic since it's premiere in 2000. Joyce DiDonato first performed it's central role, Sister Helen Prejean, at New York City Opera in 2002 and will do so again in concert stagings in London and Madrid in January/February 2018 coinciding with the album of Great Scott.