Renée Fleming - Four Last Songs

Interview and excerpts from Renée Fleming's Strauss album Four Last Songs.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Renée
• Fleming
• decca
• thielemann
• strauss
• richard
• arias
• munchner
• philharmoniker

[BastaRoberti]

no one sings Strauss like Fleming.

[liricachilena]

*sigh*

*more sigh*

don't ever stop

[amm1t5]

Le beauté et la voix. Elle a tout.

[jamesraven75]

@orovalleydude

They were first performed by the Norwegian Diva but not written for her.

[Singinganneke]

I want her as my singingteacher !!!!!!

[Ear4Beauty]

I know a voice teacher who only attends operas to about the halfway point. He walks out on just about all of them. When the audience is going wild he puzzles over it saying he just doesn't understand what they are so excited about. One day I cought him listening nostagically to some old recording and bemoaning that they just don't sing that way anymore.

[organman52]

'A voice like Fleming's' - perhaps, but musicianship? That's an entirely different issue.

[Ear4Beauty]

Now that's expertise taken to an extreme. A voice like Fleming's and you'll have nothing to do with her until she appreciates the structural significance of ... SILENCE ?

[Ear4Beauty]

I am hopelessly always on the composer's side. I always hear the composition more than the performance. always hear foremost the musical ideas, the composition that was written.

[cellotennis]

maybe the youtube software is playing tricks on us....you are sending me already the second mail re:fleming....i did NEVER comment on her, only perlman and shaham...

[organman52]

'In two bars' - but how can she know what a 'bar' is if she doesn't know what a REST is?

[cellotennis]

misunderstanding....i was commenting on your writing 3 months ago, paragraph starting with "six of my least favorite etc. " the way you dismiss perlman and shaham is beyond arrogant. we could ALL learn from these two greats - you included...to further your liberal education, have a listen, here on youtube, perlman's chaconne and see what you think !