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BBC Proms: 2020: Renée Fleming's Proms Debut

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Renée Fleming's Proms Debut

2020

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Star American soprano Renée Fleming joins the Philharmonia Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach to sing Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate and Strauss’s Four Last Songs.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. 

In this her Proms debut, star soprano Renée Fleming performed music by two composers with whom she has long been associated – a florid Mozart motet and Strauss’s ravishing final songs, which were given their premiere at the Royal Albert Hall. 

Christoph Eschenbach also conducted Richard Strauss’s colourful tone-poem inspired by the lothario Don Juan, and Brahms’s classically elegant variations on the ‘St Anthony Chorale’, a theme thought at the time to have been penned by Haydn. 

At the interval Renée Fleming joins Ian Skelly to look back on the night and reflect on performing at the Proms for two decades.

Dvořák: Carnival Overture
Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
R. Strauss: Don Juan
R. Strauss: Four Last Songs

Renée Fleming (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

(From BBC Proms 2001, 1 August)

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