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Fleming has also recorded songs for the soundtracks of several major films, two of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture (The Shape of Water and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King). Fleming has made numerous television appearances, and she is the only classical singer to have performed the US National Anthem at the Super Bowl.
Haunted Heart is a jazz album by Renée Fleming with pianist Fred Hersch and guitarist Bill Frisell. [1]The title track is a 1948 song by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Howard Dietz (lyrics) which was the main hit from the musical revue Inside U.S.A..
Dark Hope is a 2010 album of indie rock titles sung by opera soprano Renée Fleming.. The album was the idea of Peter Mensch and Cliff Burnstein; after listening to Fleming's performance of "In the Pines" on Elvis Costello's TV show Spectacle, they approached Fleming and producer David Kahne. [1]
Gulf News described Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" as "a perfect fit for Fleming's silvery, soaring soprano". They also noted the "textured, emotional soundscape" of Hillborg's The Strand Settings and the "contemporary" sound of Björk's songs. [ 2 ]
Poèmes is a 2012 album of French songs sung by operatic soprano Renée Fleming. Ravel's Shéhérazade (1903) and Messiaen's Poèmes pour Mi (1936) are followed by two sets of songs by Henri Dutilleux. He transcribed Deux sonnets de Jean Cassou for Fleming (it was originally for baritone voice) and composed Le temps l'horloge specifically for ...
The music is jazz-pop, instead of Fleming's more usual operatic material. [1] The album was released by Decca Records on November 3, 2014. [2] It was promoted in part by a PBS broadcast led by Fleming on December 4 of that year. [3]
It also musters the biggest staged forces, with sections calling for eight trumpets and a similar increase in the rest of the brass section, two timpanists, a mixed choir of 85 with additional singers for all-male and all-female parts, over fifty in the boy choir, various vocal soloists including the American soprano Renee Fleming and the boy ...
The Four Last Songs (German: Vier letzte Lieder), Op. posth., for soprano and orchestra are – with the exception of the song "Malven" (Mallows), composed later the same year – the final completed works of Richard Strauss.