Prom 31 (10.08.20) Renée Fleming

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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
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    Prom 31 (10.08.20) Renée Fleming

    In this her Proms debut, star soprano Renée Fleming performed music by two composers with whom she has long been associated – a florid Mozart motet and Strauss’s ravishing final songs, which were given their premiere at the Royal Albert Hall.

    Christoph Eschenbach also conducted Richard Strauss’s colourful tone-poem inspired by the lothario Don Juan, and Brahms’s classically elegant variations on the ‘St Anthony Chorale’, a theme thought at the time to have been penned by Haydn.


    Dvořák: Carnival Overture
    Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
    Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
    R. Strauss: Don Juan
    R. Strauss: Four Last Songs

    Renée Fleming (soprano)
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

    (From BBC Proms 2001, 1 August)
    Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 09-08-20, 11:29.
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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
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    "Star soprano". This description did cheapen her appeal for me for many years, but when I finally heard her, I realised what an exceptional singer she really is.

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    • cloughie
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      • Dec 2011
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      #3
      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
      "Star soprano". This description did cheapen her appeal for me for many years, but when I finally heard her, I realised what an exceptional singer she really is.
      Especially in R Strauss!

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      • Pulcinella
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        • Feb 2014
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        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
        Especially in R Strauss!
        Lovely voice, yes, but I wish that her enunciation were sharper/clearer.

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        • cloughie
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          • Dec 2011
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          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
          Lovely voice, yes, but I wish that her enunciation were sharper/clearer.
          Alfie Boe & Renee Fleming sing Somewhere.MP4
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-6SDJc2F-k
          Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace 04 June 2012


          I remember this as being the one good performance for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert at the Palace. The concert was overshadowed by that dreadful song written by Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber!

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          • Pulcinella
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            • Feb 2014
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            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-6SDJc2F-k

            I remember this as being the one good performance for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert at the Palace. The concert was overshadowed by that dreadful song written by Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber!
            :eek:
            Good grief!!
            Any slower and all that syrup would have completely solidified.


            (And nearly all the comments are about Alfie Boe's voice!!)

            PS: I must dig out and listen to one of the few recordings I have of her in my collection: Previn's Streetcar, which I think was written for her.
            Last edited by Pulcinella; 09-08-20, 15:58. Reason: PS added.

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            • Ein Heldenleben
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              • Apr 2014
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              #7
              Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
              Lovely voice, yes, but I wish that her enunciation were sharper/clearer.
              Funny you should say that. I saw a documentary once where Antonio Pappano gave her a note on pronouncing/singing a word . I couldn't believe it as what Renée doesnt know about singing etc...She took it with extraordinary good grace and I guess as it was an Italian word it was a fair comment from the Maestro...

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              • Keraulophone
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                • Nov 2010
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                #8
                Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                Good grief!!
                Any slower and all that syrup would have completely solidified.
                That’s what I thought of Fleming’s RCA recording of the 4LL with Houston SO/Eschenbach, particularly in Im Abendrot, but elsewhere too. He is as indulgent as she is IMHO. Compare the gorgeous, unselfconscious flow Karajan provides for Janowitz in that famous recording. Thielemann accompanying Fleming in Munich goes in the opposite direction; preferable to Eschenbach but not as satisfying as (his model?) HvK.

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                • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                  • Nov 2010
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                  Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post


                  (And nearly all the comments are about Alfie Boe's voice!!)
                  Well it is pretty dreadful.

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                  • Pulcinella
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                    • Feb 2014
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                    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                    Well it is pretty dreadful.


                    Was this televised?
                    I have a dim memory of a ghoulish-looking conductor, and a V...E...R...Y S...L...O...W 4LS.

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