Joyce Didonato - Eden
 | Label: WARNER Catalog: EAO646515.2 Format: CD "A musical exploration through the centuries to create a new Eden from within ourselves" is Joyce DiDonato's vision for her latest project. With her album EDEN, the singer raises her sonorous voice to sensitize her listeners to the beauty and fragility of our planet. In the face of progressive environmental destruction, any hope of saving the world drifts away. EDEN is Joyce DiDonato's invitation to reconnect with nature and our own origins. Composers from Handel to Charles Ives are guiding stars for the singer. In their works, the old masters deal with human conflicts and provide answers to existential questions. But they also capture the scent of a lime tree or the light of the dawn with their music. To perceive these small wonders of nature has always been the task of art. For Joyce DiDonato, music does something else: caught in the wonderful suspended state of listening, absorbed by harmonies, music gives the listener connection; the painful separateness of the individual dissolves into something higher. And so the transformative power of music is meant to give the courage to re-locate one's place in the world as a human being. Contemporary composer Rachel Portman created a new work especially for the album. As with the award-winning album "In War and Peace," the original sound ensemble Il Pomo D'Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev accompanies the world star Price: $27.98 |