Renée Fleming - The Beautiful Voice

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Album Summary

Performers

• Osian Ellis (Harp)
• Ian Watson (Piano)
• Paul Willey (Violin)
• London Voices (Voice)
• Clive Greensmith (Cello)
• Renée Fleming (Soprano)

Conductors

• Mackerras, Charles, Sir
• Tate, Jeffrey

Ensembles

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• London Voices

Composers

• Charles Gounod (Composer) (1818 - 1893)
• Friedrich von Flotow (1812 - 1883)
• Carl Orff (1895 - 1982)
• Johann Strauss II (Junior) (1825 - 1899)
• Joseph Canteloube (1879 - 1957)
• Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
• Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948)
• Gustave Charpentier (1860 - 1956)
• Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957)
• Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
• José María Cano (1959 - )

Notes & Reviews:

This disc received Grammy Award for "Best Classical Vocal Performance." It was also nominated for the Award for "Best Classical Album."

Sure, it takes guts for a soprano to call an album THE BEAUTIFUL VOICE. But Renée Fleming did it, and the title fits. Fleming, a recognized performer with a wealth of talent, had the luxury of being allowed to program the music she loved--music as gratifying to sing as it is to hear.

With careful and varied support from Jeffrey Tate and the English Chamber Orchestra, Fleming's program is a wash of exquisite music, mostly about love: longing for lost love (in "Marietta's Lied"); first knowing love (in "Depuis le jour"); in youth (the "Jewel Song"); and in old age ("The last rose").

Fleming is at her best here in operatic selections in which the diva halts the action to tell a story, to dwell in a moment, or to draw her on- and off-stage audiences into the action. There is some well-trodden ground here, but long, flowing lines and sumptuous, floating high notes keep the program fresh. In a market glutted with artist-centered albums, THE BEAUTIFUL VOICE is a standout.

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Works Details

Charpentier, Gustave : Louise :: Act 3

• Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Running Time: 6 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1887-1896
• Language: French
• Studio/Live: Studio

Gounod, Charles : Faust :: Act 3

• Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Notes: This selection begins with "O Dieu! que de bijoux!"
• Running Time: 4 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1856-1859
• Language: French
• Studio/Live: Studio

Massenet, Jules : Manon :: Act 3

• Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Running Time: 6 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1882-1883
• Language: French
• Studio/Live: Studio

Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904) : Gypsy Songs, Op. 55

• Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Notes: Arranged: Mackerras
• Running Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Flotow, Friedrich von : Martha :: Act II, no 8

• Performers: Osian Ellis (Harp); Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Notes: Composition written: 1847.
• Running Time: 4 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1847
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Puccini, Giacomo : La Rondine :: Act I

• Performers: Ian Watson (Piano); Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1917
• Language: Italian
• Studio/Live: Studio

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang : Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) :: Act I

• Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Notes: Composition written: 1920.
• Running Time: 5 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1920
• Language: German
• Studio/Live: Studio

Orff, Carl : Carmina burana :: no 21

• Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1935-1936
• Language: Latin
• Studio/Live: Studio

Strauss, Richard : Lieder (4), Op. 27

• Performers: Osian Ellis (Harp); Renée Fleming (Soprano); Paul Willey (Violin)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Running Time: 4 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1894
• Language: German
• Studio/Live: Studio

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Songs (14), Op. 34

• Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Notes: Orchestrated: Braden
• Running Time: 5 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Studio/Live: Studio

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Die Fledermaus

• Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Notes: Composition written: 1873.
• Running Time: 4 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873
• Language: German
• Studio/Live: Studio

Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948) : Vilja-Lied ("Es lebt eine Vilja") (from "Die lustige Witwe")

• Performers: London Voices (Voice); Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Ensemble: London Voices
• Running Time: 5 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Language: German
• Studio/Live: Studio

José María Cano (1959 - ) : Luna, zarzuela :: Epilogo

• Performers: Clive Greensmith (Cello); Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Running Time: 5 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1998
• Studio/Live: Studio

Canteloube, Joseph : Baïlèro

• Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
• Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
• Running Time: 7 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1923-1930
• Language: French
• Studio/Live: Studio