Renée Fleming: Guilty Pleasures

A sequel to the album - Beautiful Voice - that sold 187,000 copies and won 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 othersTwo 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 LakméSebastian Lang-Lessing conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a programme that ranges from Berlioz via Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Smetana, Wagner and Rachmaninov to Canteloube, Delibes and MassenetRenée Fleming will be awarded the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal by the President of the USA on July 10th. The recognition is for her contributions to American music. 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.

1: Villanelle
2: Phidylé
3: Ombra Di Nube
4: Nana. Tranquillo
5: Canción. Calma E Sostenuto
6: Undina's Aria
7: Twilight, Op. 21, No. 3
8: Les Filles De Cadix
9: Sous Le Dôme Épais
10: La Delaissado
11: Malurous Qu'o Uno Fenno
12: Za Stíhlou Gazelou
13: Lullaby
14: Frag Mich Oft
15: Träume 'Sag', Welch Wunderbare Träume'
16: Once There Was a Golden Bird
17: O Danny Boy

Composer: Licinio Refice, Henri Duparc, Richard Wagner, Johann Strauss II, Bedrich Smetana, Manuel de Falla, Hector Berlioz, John Corigliano, Sergei Rachmaninov, Antonin Dvorák, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Léo Delibes, Joseph Canteloube

Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra

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