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Renée Fleming's Proms Debut

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 2020

Star American soprano Renée Fleming joins the Philharmonia Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach to sing Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate and Strauss’s Four Last Songs.

In 2020, Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

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.

At the interval Renée Fleming joins Ian Skelly to look back on the night and reflect on performing at the Proms for two decades.

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 Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 2001, 1 August)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Overture 'Carnival'

    Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Variations on the St Anthony Chorale

    Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Exsultate, jubilate

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan

    Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.

  • Richard Strauss

    Four Last Songs

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.

  • Richard Strauss

    Four Songs, Op. 27 - No. 2 Cäcilie - encore

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor BWV 1052

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Joanna MacGregor: Live in Buenos Aires.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
    • 1.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A major Kk.113

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.

Broadcast

  • Mon 10 Aug 2020 19:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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