BBC Proms 2020 - Renée Fleming's Proms Debut [2001] (320kbps .mp3)



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.



01. Dvořák - Carnival Overture

01a. Introduction to Renée Fleming's concert

02. Brahms - Variations on the St Anthony Chorale

02b. Introduction to Brahms’ Variations on the St Anthony Chorale

03 Mozart - Exsultate, jubilate

03b. Introduction to Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate

03c. Interview with Renée Fleming and interval commentary

04. Strauss, R - Don Juan

05. Strauss, R - Four Last Songs

05b. Introduction to Strauss’ Four Last Songs

06. Strauss, R - Four Songs, Op. 27 - No. 2 Cäcilie [encore]





Renée Fleming (soprano)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)



(From BBC Proms 2001, 1 August)