DVORAK / MOZART / BRITTEN / GOUNOD / VERDI / R. STRAUSS / etc
Renée Fleming - Greatest Moments at the Met Renée Fleming, with Cecilia Bartoli, Susan Graham, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Samuel Ramey, Bryn Terfel & more [ Decca / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] This first-ever, specially remastered collection compiles highlights chosen by Renée of her "most magical experiences", captured live on stage in this pinnacle of opera houses. Produced by GRAMMY-winning David Frost, the collection features duets... |
FAURE / HAHN / MUHLY / LISZT / GRIEG / SHAW / etc
Renee Fleming: Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene Renée Fleming (soprano), Yannick Nezet-Seguin (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] Exploring the relationship Romantic composers had with nature through song, including Fauré & Grieg, this album also Includes new commissions from Nico Muhly and Pulitzer-Prize winners Kevin Putts and Caroline Shaw The Anthropocene is the name... |
VERDI / PUCCINI / MOZART / DONIZETTI / LEONCAVALLO / DVORAK
Opera Gold: 50 Greatest Tracks Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Kiri te Kanawa, Mario del Monaco, Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Renee Fleming, Jonas Kaufmann [ Decca Music Group / 3 CD Box Set - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Decca, the opera company, presents a premium collection of the most beautiful opera tracks on 3 CDs. Classic arias and preludes performed by the greatest opera stars of all time. |
MOZART / VERDI / BIZET / WAGNER / PUCCINI / R. STRAUSS / etc
The Royal Opera - The Collection BLU-RAY The Royal Opera / Renee Fleming, Gerald Finley, Miah Persson, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Simon O'Neill, Erwin Schrott, Kate Royal, Jonas Kaufmann, etc [ BBC / Opus Arte Blu-ray / 18 Blu-ray Box Set - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Over a decade of opera is represented here with no fewer than 16 operas in this magnificent 18-disc collection of stunning performances by The Royal Opera, with amazing casts, featuring some of the greatest singers of this century. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
An Evening with Renée Fleming (Recorded live at Waldbühne, Berlin, 2010) Renée Fleming (soprano) / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic], Ion Marin [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, is the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker's summer concerts. |
HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: Centenary Edition Mstislav Rostropovich, Truls Mørk (cellos), Renaud Capuçon, Christian Tetzlaff (violins), Dawn Upshaw, Renee Fleming (sops), Jérôme Ducros (piano), et [ Erato / Warner Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 22/Nov/2019 ] "The performances here are uniformly excellent, while some must be taken as definitive - not in the sense of saying the last word…rather in indicating directions of travel." BBC Music Five Stars |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN / GUSTAV MAHLER
Renée Fleming - Lieder (Brahms, Schumann, Mahler) Renée Fleming (soprano) Hartmut Höll (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] Four-time Grammy winning soprano Renée Fleming presents her first full-length Lieder album for almost two decades. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Renee Fleming: Broadway Renee Fleming (soprano) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Rob Fisher [ Decca / CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] "All in all, then, a valuable disc with quite a lot of songs off the beaten track, which admirers of Renée Fleming, or of Broadway musicals in general, or both, should derive hours and hours of pleasure from." MusicWeb |
RICHARD STRAUSS / ANTON BRUCKNER / HUGO WOLF
Renee Fleming in Concert (recorded live in 2011 & 2012) Renee Fleming (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD Box Set - released 5/Mar/2018 ] Two unforgettable evenings showcase the artistry of Renée Fleming alongside Christian Thielemann's mastery of the Austro-German Romantic idiom...."Beautifully filmed and recorded … worthy of special praise." (MusicWeb Nov 2013) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth / Il Trovatore / La Traviata (complete operas recorded 2002 - 2011) BLU-RAY Royal Opera / Simon Keenlyside, Liudmyla Monastryrska, Jose Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Renee Fleming, Joseph Calleja / Antonio Pappano & Carlo Rizzi ( [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 20/Feb/2018 ] This trio of unforgettable Royal Opera productions features some of the most cherished and admired examples of Verdi's operatic genius. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Renee Fleming, Elina Garanca, Gunther Groissbock, Erin Morley / Sebastian Weigle (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 26/Jan/2018 ] "The dramatic chemistry between Ms. Fleming and Ms. GaranĨa came through in their every exchange" New York Times |
DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV / HUMPERDINCK / STRAVINSKY
Summer Night Concert 2017 Renee Fleming (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] Fairytales and myths have inspired composers from time immemorial, and audiences, too, have invariably been enthralled by the unending struggle between good and evil. Central to the Vienna Philharmonic's 2017 Summer Night Concert are German, French,... |
DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / RACHMANINOV / HUMPERDINCK / STRAVINSKY
Summer Night Concert 2017 BLU-RAY Renee Fleming (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Jul/2017 ] Fairytales and myths have inspired composers from time immemorial, and audiences, too, have invariably been enthralled by the unending struggle between good and evil. Central to the Vienna Philharmonic's 2017 Summer Night Concert are German, French,... |
BARBER / BJORK / HILLBORG
Renée Fleming: Distant Light Renée Fleming (soprano) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo [ Decca / CD - released 19/Jan/2017 ] "At once alluring and uneasy, the songs are a gift for Renée Fleming, whose siren-like soprano draws the listener on to the unknown. The atmosphere is potently captured by Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra." Financial Times |
DONIZETTI / BELLINI
Bel Canto Operas: Lucrezia Borgia / I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Complete operas recorded 2011/12) San Francisco Opera / Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong, Joyce DiDonato, Nicole Cabell / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "Fleming seems fired by the theatricality of a reviled female character who commands every dramatic situation she encounters...DeShong is a powerful vocal and dramatic presence as Orsini" (Gramophone) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Eine Alpensinfonie [Alpine Symphony] / Lieder (recorded live in 2011) Renee Fleming (soprano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "In all, this is clearly a treat for Straussians and Fleming fans; she has been both better and worse, but overall, she's lovely here." (International Record Review) |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (plus Wolf - Lieder) [concert recorded in Sept 2012] BLU-RAY Renee Fleming (soprano) / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2016 ] "Thielemann's interpretation of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is majestic and clean, as expected, though it falls just short of the cumulative power that the audience's warm reception suggests." (BBC Music) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Shakespeare In Music & Words Richard Pasco, Vanessa Redgrave, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir John Gielgud, Paul Hardwick, Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming & others [ Decca / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] To celebrate 400 years of William Shakespeare, Decca presents a 2 disc set of music inspired by the Bard as well as highlights of his greatest written work. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
The Verdi Edition: 12 Complete Operas Renee Fleming / Joseph Calleja / Thomas Hampson / Simon Keenlyside / Christine Schafer / Daniela Dessi / Jose Cura / Placido Domingo / Rolando Villazo [ Opus Arte DVD / 17 DVD Box Set - released 30/Dec/2015 ] Celebrating the work of Italy's greatest musical dramatist, this set of 12 operas includes definitive performances from some of the finest Verdi singers of our age, in productions which reflect the contemporary richness of our perspective of the... |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Lyric Suite (with works by Wellesz & Zeisl) Renée Fleming (soprano) / Emerson String Quartet [ Decca / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] This release unites on record for the first time America's reigning star soprano Renée Fleming and its premier string quartet, The Emersons, to take us on a journey into the twilight world of Vienna in the 1920s and 30s in music imbued with late... |