Renée Fleming - Voice of Nature- The Anthropocene (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

On 8 October, Renée Fleming will release Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, her new album with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Inspired by the solace Fleming found while hiking near her Virginia home during lockdown, the album explores the centrality of nature in Romantic-era song and highlights the peril and fragility of the natural world today.
Says Fleming, “This music begins in a time almost two centuries ago, when people had a profound connection to the beauty of nature. Now, in the Anthropocene, we see the effects of our own activity, and the fragility of our environment. Nature has been so good to us: we have not been so good to nature.”
Fleming and her collaborator, the Canadian conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin, have hand-picked a selection of works in which composers and poets find human experience and love reflected in the world of nature. A celebrated performer of art song, Fleming draws on both well-loved and lesser-known classical repertoire, with music by Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Gabriel Fauré, and Reynaldo Hahn.
The album includes premieres of two new commissions from living composers. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts sets “Evening” by the American poet Dorianne Laux, and Nico Muhly collages poetry from the 17th-century English theologian Thomas Traherne with excerpts from writings by Robinson Meyer, a journalist who covers climate change, in Endless Space. Originally premiered by Fleming at Carnegie Hall in 2017, Caroline Shaw’s Aurora Borealis, to a text by poet Mary Jo Salter, is given its world-recording premiere.

TRACKLIST

1. Renée Fleming - Puts: Evening
2. Renée Fleming - No. 1, Prison
3. Renée Fleming - No. 9, Les étoile
4. Renée Fleming - No. 5, L'heure exquise
5. Renée Fleming - No. 2, En sourdine
6. Renée Fleming - Fauré: Rêve d'amour, Op. 5 No. 2
7. Renée Fleming - Liszt: S'il est un charmant gazon, S. 284
8. Renée Fleming - Muhly: Endless Space
9. Renée Fleming - No. 1, Les berceaux
10. Renée Fleming - No. 1, Au bord de l'eau
11. Renée Fleming - Hahn: L'énamourée
12. Renée Fleming - Liszt: Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, S. 306
13. Renée Fleming - No. 3, Lauf der Welt
14. Renée Fleming - No. 5, Zur Rosenzeit
15. Renée Fleming - No. 6, Ein Traum
16. Renée Fleming - Shaw: Aurora Borealis



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