Joyce DiDonato – Songplay

Joyce DiDonato takes a new and creative angle on vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods, as well as from the 20th century, with her new album Songplay. Listen: The album serves up music by Vivaldi in both its customary Baroque purity and swinging to the heady rhythm of a samba. It brings a tango sizzle to an aria by Vivaldi’s contemporary Marcello. It plays with the voice of Bach in George Shearing’s ‘Lullaby of Birdland’. Joining Joyce in this musical collaboration