- Rachel Portman
The First Morning of the World (2021)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Commissioned by Joyce DiDonato
Unavailable for performance.
- voc + 1.1(ca).1.1/hn/str
- Voice
- 7 min 30 s
- Gene Scheer
Media
Introducing the album EDEN by Joyce DiDonato featuring the world premiere recording of a specially commissioned work by Rachel Portman.
Reviews
The theme of cosmic questing was picked up in Rachel Portman’s soft-edged yet sensitive setting of Gene Scheer’s poem The First Morning of the World, receiving its UK premiere.
6th April 2022
Discography
EDEN
- LabelErato
- Catalogue Number9029646515
- ConductorMaxim Emelyanychev
- EnsembleIl Pomo d’Oro
- SoloistJoyce DiDonato
- Released25th February 2022