Les Filles de Cadix, bolero for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Lakmé, opera: Act 1. Dôme épais le jasmin (Duo des fleurs)
La Delaïssádo (La délaissée), folksong for voice & orchestra (Chants d'Auvergne, Series 2, No. 4)
Malurous qu'o uno fenno, folksong for voice & orchestra (Chants d'Auvergne, Series 3, No. 5)
Armida, opera, B. 206 (Op.115): Act 1. Scene 3. Za stíhlou gazelou
Hubicka (The Kiss), opera, JB 1:104: Act 1. Scene 7. Hajej, muj andílku (Vendulka ukolébavky)
Walzer aus Wien, operetta (Strauss works arr. by E. W. Korngold, J. Bittner, B. Granichstaedten, & E. Cools): Act 3. No. 14. Frag' mich oft, woran's denn wohl liegt, lied
Träume (Dreams) for violin & small orchestra in A flat major (from Wesendonck Lieder No. 5), WWV 91b
Ghosts of Versailles, opera: Act 2. Once there was a golden bird (from "She must stay", Marie-Antoinette's final aria)
The "guilty pleasures" referred to in the title of this release by American soprano Renée Fleming are Fleming's own; they are small pieces that she has always wanted to record. Of course they require no apology at all. Even the familiar numbers, such as the Flower Duet from Délibes' Lakmé (track 9, performed with Susan Graham), have the kind of freshness that seems impossible if you consider that Fleming has been singing them for decades. Actually some of the music is quite unusual for an orchestral-song-and-aria collection ...
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The "guilty pleasures" referred to in the title of this release by American soprano Renée Fleming are Fleming's own; they are small pieces that she has always wanted to record. Of course they require no apology at all. Even the familiar numbers, such as the Flower Duet from Délibes' Lakmé (track 9, performed with Susan Graham), have the kind of freshness that seems impossible if you consider that Fleming has been singing them for decades. Actually some of the music is quite unusual for an orchestral-song-and-aria collection of this kind. Fleming sings in eight languages, including Occitan, and she has both the panache and the prestige to include such items as John Corigliano's "Once there was a golden bird," from The Ghosts of Versailles, and "Vendulka's Lullaby" from Smetana's rarely heard opera The Kiss. Fleming was 53 when this album was recorded, but it is mighty hard to identify any of the vocal maladies that begin to afflict sopranos of that age. Sample the chilling, silvery finale of Undine's...
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