Unexpected Shadows • Pentatone 2020
The beloved, award-winning American mezzo Jamie Barton joins composer/pianist Jake Heggie and cellist Matt Haimovitz in a celebration of powerful, exceptional women through Jake’s songs to texts by Sister Helen Prejean, Laura Morefield, Gene Scheer and Gavin Dillard.
Unexpected Shadows includes the complete song cycles The Work at Hand, Statuesque, Iconic Legacies: First Ladies at the Smithsonian, Of Gods & Cats, as well as excerpts from The Breaking Waves and the opera If I Were You.
2022 Grammy Nominee: Best Classical Solo Vocal Album