"This new recording has a star in Joyce DiDonato and, for all that the performance as a whole is of high standard, she dominates the proceedings wherever she appears... Dido’s {…}

Gramophone Puts The Hours Sols; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin Erato  Kevin Puts’s The Hours doesn’t demand to be seen and studied. It just needs to be heard. Three plot lines revolve around the {…}

"Joyce DiDonato’s presence in both works is a major factor in the desirability of the new set. The cantata has been recorded in the past by both sopranos and mezzos, {…}

Gramophone and The New Yorker ‘Eden’  Joyce DiDonato mez Il Pomo d’Oro / Maxim Emelyanychev  Erato  An album to focus us on our relationship to nature, delivered with passion by Joyce DiDonato and her colleagues – a powerful {…}

Gramophone ‘Eden’  Joyce DiDonato mez Il Pomo d’Oro / Maxim Emelyanychev  Erato  An album to focus us on our relationship to nature, delivered with passion by Joyce DiDonato and her colleagues – a powerful example of how music {…}

"DiDonato's voice is truly one of nature's great wonders: luminous, silken, flexible, full of colors and expressive shadings, always supported by the breath so even the finest threads of tone {…}