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Renee Fleming at the BBC Proms 2017 (with Orchestra) Photo: Mark Allan/ BBC

09/09/2017 GMT

Renée Fleming sings Barber and Strauss

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Barber's nostalgic Knoxville and Richard Strauss's Transformation scene from Daphne.

Soprano Renée Fleming joins the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra to give us music by Barber, Strauss. Plus a UK premiere of a recent work by Andrea Tarrodi.

BARBER: Knoxville - Summer of 1915
BARBER: Sure on this Shining Night    
STRAUSS: Daphne - Daphne's Verwandlung 'Ich komme, ich komme'    
TARRODI: Liguria 
 
Renée Fleming soprano
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor

One of the most glamorous and celebrated musicians of our time, soprano Renée Fleming returns to the Proms 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 America in a simpler age. The orchestra also brings a recent work by the young Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi - Liguria, a vivid musical 'walking tour' through Italian fishing villages.
 
The concert is introduced by Andrew McGregor and opera historian Sarah Lenton who has a special interest in 19th and 20th century vocal music.

Photo: Mark Allan/ BBC

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