Man, BBC Records turned this one around fast! Wigmore Hall Live: Joyce DiDonato reproduces a live Wigmore Hall recital given only January 16, 2006, and the disc is available to the public in August of the same year. Usually even with live recordings it takes longer than that for a release to surface, but BBC apparently put Wigmore Hall Live: Joyce DiDonato on the fast track, and it's a good one. Soprano Joyce DiDonato and accompanist Julius Drake program a collection of 17 songs under the rubric "A Journey through Venice," ...
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Man, BBC Records turned this one around fast! Wigmore Hall Live: Joyce DiDonato reproduces a live Wigmore Hall recital given only January 16, 2006, and the disc is available to the public in August of the same year. Usually even with live recordings it takes longer than that for a release to surface, but BBC apparently put Wigmore Hall Live: Joyce DiDonato on the fast track, and it's a good one. Soprano Joyce DiDonato and accompanist Julius Drake program a collection of 17 songs under the rubric "A Journey through Venice," featuring works by Rossini, Michael Head, Gabriel Fauré, and Reynaldo Hahn. As encores, operatic arias by Handel and Rossini are proffered, which are received with ebullient enthusiasm by the barely restrained English audience, who are at one point unable to refrain from breaking out into applause between songs in a set.Michael Head is certainly an unfamiliar name, especially to listeners on the Western side of the Atlantic Ocean. However, DiDonato makes an excellent case for his art...
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