Joyce DiDonato - Eden

Through music from across the centuries, Joyce DiDonato calls attention to a subject more timely than ever before: our individual connection to nature and its impact on our world.

Recorded with Il Pomo d'Oro and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, the album samples repertoire from diverse inspirations and time periods, all of which explore an aspect of humankind's eternal relationship with nature, and features the world premiere recording of a specially commissioned work by the Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman. In Joyce's words, the selections of the program "have no boundaries - like a wild garden."

"EDEN is an invitation to return to our roots. It is an overture to engage with the sheer perfection of the world around us, to consider if we are connecting as profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being. It is a clarion call to contemplate if our collective suffering isn't perhaps linked to the aching separation from something primal within and around us. This is a vivid musical exploration through the centuries to remember and to create a new EDEN from within." ~ Joyce DiDonato

Repertoire: from Handel to Ives, from Gluck to Mahler, exploring the majesty, might, and mystery of Nature through both arresting and evocative music, Joyce takes us on an emotional journey to reconnect to the power and fragility of nature, exploring our place within the wondrous world around us.