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Summary:

Joyce DiDonato greets listeners with a song in her heart and a twinkle in her eye. The American mezzo-soprano's album unites world-class musicians from the varied worlds of opera, jazz, and tango in the pure pleasure of improvisation, experimentation, and exchange.

Table of Contents:

• Se tu m'ami / Alessandro Parisotti ; Star vicino / Salvator Rosa (6:31)
• Tu lo sai / Giuseppe Torelli (4:44)
• (I'm afraid) The masquerade is over / Allie Wrubel (7:20)
• Lullaby of Birdland / George Shearing (4:15)
• She loves me. Will he like me? / Jerry Bock (3:56)
• Le nuove musiche. Amarilli, mia bella / Giulio Caccini (3:24)
• Lean away / Gene Sheer (4:38)
• Arsilda, regina di Ponto. Col piacer della mia fede / Antonio Vivaldi (5:00)
• Giustino, RV 717. Vedrò con mio diletto / Antonio Vivaldi (5:27)
• (In my) solitude / Duke Ellington (5:19)
• Doppo tante e tante pene. Quella fiamma / Francesco Conti (4:05)
• Caro mio ben / Giuseppe Giordani (3:40)
• L'amor contrastato. Nel cor più non mi sento / Giovanni Paisiello (3:07)
• Spring is here! With a song in my heart / Richard Rodgers (8:27).

Contributors:

DiDonato, Joyce , singer

Terry, Craig (Pianist) , instrumentalist

Porter, Charlie, 1978- , instrumentalist

Greco, Lautaro , instrumentalist

Israels, Chuck , instrumentalist

Madison, Jimmy , instrumentalist

Parisotti, Alessandro, 1853-1913

Torelli, Giuseppe, 1658-1709

Shearing, George

Bock, Jerry

Caccini, Giulio, 1551-1618

Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

Giordani, Giuseppe, 1751-1798

Paisiello, Giovanni, 1740-1816

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979

Languages:

Italian
English
French
German

Language Notes:

Sung in Italian and English.

Included Works:

Se tu m'ami [by Parisotti, A.] (arranged)

Tu lo sai [by Torelli, G.] (arranged)

Lullaby of Birdland [by Shearing, G.] (arranged)

She loves me [by Bock, J.] > Will he like me? (arranged)

Nuove musiche [by Caccini, G.] > Amarilli mia bella (arranged)

Arsilda regina di Ponto [by Vivaldi, A.] > Col piacer della mia fede (arranged)

Giustino [by Vivaldi, A.] > Vedrò con mio diletto (arranged)

Solitude [by Ellington, D.] (arranged)

Caro mio ben [by Giordani, G.] (arranged)

Molinara [by Paisiello, G.] > Nel cor più non mi sento (arranged)

Spring is here [by Rodgers, R.] > With a song in my heart (arranged)

Subjects:

Jazz vocals

Operas — Excerpts, Arranged

Jazz — 2011-2020

2011-2020

Operas

Jazz

Genres:

Operas

Popular music

Art music

Jazz

Arrangements (Music)

Excerpts, Arranged

Performers:

Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano ; with Craig Terry, piano, harpsichord ; Charlie Porter, trumpet, flugelhorn ; Lautaro Greco, bandoneon ; Chuck Israels, bass ; Jimmy Madison, drums ; Steve Barnett, shaker.

Performance Medium:

1 performer and 1 ensemble: mezzo-soprano voice; instrumental ensemble
1 performer and 1 ensemble: mezzo-soprano voice; instrumental ensemble

General Notes:

Jazz arrangements.
Title from disc label.
Essay by Joyce DiDonato and program notes by Warwick Thompson in English, French, German along with lyrics on insert (30 pages : color illustrations).
Recorded Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California, 2018 March 4-9.
Grammy Award, Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, 2019.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (1:10:49) ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 157,594

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 190295534387
Publisher Number, Warner Classics/Parlophone: 585780

OCLC Numbers:

1079840494