Renee Fleming: Guilty Pleasures | Decca 4785107

Renee Fleming: Guilty Pleasures

Label: Decca

Cat No: 4785107

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 16th September 2013

Contents

Artists

Renee Fleming (soprano)
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Sebastian Lang-Lessing

Works

Berlioz, Hector

Les Nuits d'ete, op.7
» no.1 Villanelle

Canteloube, Joseph

Chants d'Auvergne (Songs of the Auvergne)
» La Delaissado
» Malurous qu'o uno Fenno

Corigliano, John

The Ghosts of Versailles

Delibes, Leo

Lakme
» Sous le dome epais 'Flower duet'
Les filles de Cadix

Duparc, Henri

Phidyle

Dvorak, Antonin

Armida
» Za stihlou gazelou

Falla, Manuel de

Canciones populares espanolas (7)
» no.5 Nana
» no.6 Cancion

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Songs (12), op.21
» no.3 Twilight

Refice, Licinio

Ombra di nube

Smetana, Bedrich

The Kiss
» Lullaby

Strauss II, Johann

Walzer aus Wien
» Frag mich oft

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Undina
» Undina's aria

Traditional

O Danny Boy

Wagner, Richard

Wesendonck-Lieder (5), WWV91
» no.5 Traume (Dreams)

Artists

Renee Fleming (soprano)
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Sebastian Lang-Lessing

About

A sequel to the album 'Beautiful Voice' that sold 187,000 copies and won Renée Fleming a Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Performance. Fleming was seen by millions singing at the Jubilee celebrations for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

‘Guilty Pleasures’ is an album of sheer indulgence: the beautiful voice of Renée Fleming in a new and very personal selection of songs and arias, featuring a feast of music, much of which we might never hear her sing on stage. For our pleasure she has chosen to record many famous arias from roles which are not normally associated with her repertoire: romantic highlights from operas by Dvorak, Smetana and Tchaikovsky among many others.

Two twentieth-century American composers offer the chance for Fleming to sing in her native tongue – the Irish folksong Danny Boy and John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles. Susan Graham joins Renée for the celebrated Flower Duet from Lakmé.

Sebastian Lang-Lessing conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a programme that ranges from Berlioz via Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Smetana, Wagner and Rachmaninov to Canteloube, Delibes and Massenet.

Known to many as “the people’s diva,” Ms Fleming has captivated audiences around the world with an adventurous repertoire spanning opera and the classical tradition, to jazz and contemporary pop.

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