• 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

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.

Barry Millington, Evening Standard
6th April 2022

Discography

EDEN

EDEN
  • Label
    Erato
  • Catalogue Number
    9029646515
  • Conductor
    Maxim Emelyanychev
  • Ensemble
    Il Pomo d’Oro
  • Soloist
    Joyce DiDonato
  • Released
    25th February 2022