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BBC Proms: 2017

BBC Proms: 2017: Prom 61: Renee Fleming sings Strauss

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Prom 61: Renee Fleming sings Strauss

30/08/2017

2017

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Renee Fleming sings Strauss and Barber with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Renee Fleming sings Strauss and Barber with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, conducted by Sakari Oramo. Plus Nielsen's Symphony No 2.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Renee Fleming sings Strauss and Barber with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, conducted by Sakari Oramo. Plus Nielsen's Symphony no.2.

Andrea Tarrodi: Liguria
UK premiere

Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24


7.35pm:
INTERVAL: Proms Extra:
Daniel Grimley introduces Nielsen's Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments' in an edited version of a discussion recorded earlier this evening at Imperial College.

7.55pm: Part 2
Strauss: Daphne - Transformation Scene, 'Ich komme - ich komme'

Nielsen: Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments'

Renée Fleming, soprano
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor


Star American soprano Renée Fleming returns to join Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for the shimmering 'transformation' music that closes Richard Strauss's opera Daphne, and Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a nostalgic portrait of the America of a simpler age.
The RSPO also brings music by its Swedish compatriot Andrea Tarrodi - Liguria, a vivid musical 'walking tour' through Italian fishing villages as well as Nielsen's Second Symphony, 'The Four Temperaments', whose four movements offer different character portraits, from a choleric opening Allegro to a melancholic slow movement.

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