Renée Fleming, Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene (2021)
Renée Fleming, Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 198 Mb | Total time: 56:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 2089 | Recorded: 2021
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 198 Mb | Total time: 56:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 485 2089 | Recorded: 2021
Leave the "Anthropocene" theme aside for a moment and revel in Renée Fleming's voice on this album, released in 2021 when the singer was in her early 60s. The instrument is in fine shape, and Fleming's decision to forgo operatic performances in favor of art song is looking better and better. The top notes don't have the force of a 30-year-old's but have a rather eerie precision. Perhaps there's a bit of strain in the register just below the top, but the burnished quality of her low notes is absolutely gorgeous and more than compensates. As for the music, the new term "Anthropocene" denotes the current epoch in which the effect of human activities on the climate is fundamental. Fleming mixes French and German late Romantic songs about nature with contemporary compositions on the same theme. She avoids Schubert, whose output furnishes plenty of examples, which works well, for the Romantic works, with Britten more or less of a model, are of a piece with the new compositions, and the whole thing is unusually focused. Only one of those new works, Nico Muhly's Endless Space, addresses the Anthropocene theme directly, and it has a 17th century text, but two of the three were commissioned for this project, and the third, Caroline Shaw's remarkable Aurora Borealis, receives its world premiere here. Fleming indicates that the album's genesis came during the coronavirus pandemic, as she walked in the forest near her Virginia home and became aware of the power of nature to heal. She realizes her goal beautifully, not only technically but in terms of forging a program that is as strong as that of any song recital she has ever done.–James Manheim
Performer:
Renée Fleming, soprano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano
Track List:
Kevin Puts (b. 1972)
01. Evening (Dorianne Laux)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
02. Prison, Op.83 No.1 (Verlaine)
Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
03. 12 Rondels - Les Étoiles (Banville)
04. 7 Chansons grises - L'Heure exquise (Verlaine)
Gabriel Fauré
05. En sourdine, Op.58 No.2 (Verlaine)
06. Rêve d'amour, Op.5 No.2 (Hugo)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
07. S'il est un charmant gazon, S284 (Hugo)
Nico Muhly (b. 1981)
08. Endless Space (Meyer/Loyd/Traherne)
for Renée & Yannick
Gabriel Fauré
09. Les Berceaux, Op.23 No.1 (Prudhomme)
10. Au bord de l'eau, Op.8 No.1 (Prudhomme)
Reynaldo Hahn
11. 12 Rondels - L'Enamourée (Banville)
Franz Liszt
12. Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, S306 (Goethe)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Sechs Lieder, Op.48
13. No.3 Lauf der Welt (Uhland)
14. No.5 Zur Rosenzeit (Goethe)
15. No.6 Ein Traum (Bodenstedt)
Caroline Shaw (b.1982)
16. Aurora Borealis (Mary Jo Salter)
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Renée Fleming, Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene (2021)
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