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Schubert: Winterreise
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano)
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
DiDonato’s performance certainly has its own character. A luminescent beauty of tone radiates through her singing, lighting up glimmers of hope and reflected memories, such as in “Frühlingstraum”,...
Schubert: Winterreise
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano)
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
DiDonato’s performance certainly has its own character. A luminescent beauty of tone radiates through her singing, lighting up glimmers of hope and reflected memories, such as in “Frühlingstraum”,...
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World famous mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and conductor-pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin join forces to take on one of the most brilliant song cycles ever written: Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter Journey). DiDonato, however, casts a different light on this beloved cycle of 24 songs in telling their story from the perspective of the woman, the lost love. Nancy Plum, Town Topics writes: “The question of what happened to the woman who sent the narrator on a tortuous journey was not answered in the Wilhelm Müller poetry from which Schubert drew the text, but DiDonato created a scenario onstage of being that woman, reading from the narrator’s journal and responding to the inherent despair.”
New York Classical Review wrote about Joyce Didonato’s interpretation: “…what stood out was the heavy emotion that came through in her singing, as she lingered on a syllable here, pressed her tone there. She created vivid feelings with her contrasts…”
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Joyce DiDonato on Winterreise
The American mezzo talks to Katherine about her new recording with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, which approaches Schubert's great song-cycle from the perspective of the woman whom the narrator leaves behind...
Awards and reviews
23rd April 2021
DiDonato’s performance certainly has its own character. A luminescent beauty of tone radiates through her singing, lighting up glimmers of hope and reflected memories, such as in “Frühlingstraum”, with a beautiful sheen.
May 2021
Some traditionalists might quibble…, but ultimately it’s difficult not to be persuaded by the sheer emotional scale and conviction of this handsome performance.
11th April 2021
DiDonato has a voice of rare beauty, but even more heartbreaking than the loveliness of her singing is her endlessly varied dramatic colouring of the text. Incomparable.
10th April 2021
Drawing on her formidable range of vocal colour, DiDonato captures the drama within each song, and across the cycle...Any fan will enjoy the insight DiDonato brings. You might go back to your favourite tenor afterwards, but you’ll have thought about this masterpiece anew.
21st April 2021
Her quieter word paintings, ushering in pained memories, can be exquisite. When cold winds arrive, we shiver on cue. And the last song, with the organ-grinder grinding away unheeded on the ice, is as devastating as ever.
