A Recital with Renee Fleming: Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century (2012) [Blu-ray]

This recital is Renée Fleming’s very personal homage to “Fin de Siècle” Vienna. At the turn of the last century, the capital of the Austrian Empire was also one of the cultural centres for the fine arts and, in particular, for music. The city of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, a “melting pot” of cultures and musical traditions, attracted gifted musicians and composers alike and provided the perfect soil for much of the greatest music of that time. With this selection of works by Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) and Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), combined with more progressive songs by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Renée Fleming presents to us the full variety of this unique epoch. The venue of her recital with Maciej Pikulski at the piano is, of course, the Golden Hall of the Musikverein Vienna.

Recorded at Golden Hall of the Musikverein Vienna, 2012.

Треклист:
Hugo Wolf: Gedichte von J.W. v. Goethe (excerpts)
Gustav Mahler: Ruckert-Lieder (excerpts)
Arnold Schoenberg:
4 Lieder, Op. 2: No. 1. Erwartung
2 Balladen, Op. 12: No. 1. Jane Grey
Alexander Zemlinsky: 5 Lieder
Erich Wolfgang Korngold:
4 Abschiedslieder, Op. 14: No. 1. Sterbelied
6 Einfache Lieder, Op. 9: No. 5. Das Heldengrab am Pruth
3 Lieder, Op. 22: No. 1. Was Du mir bist
Unverganglichkeit (The Eternal), Op. 27: No. 2. Das eilende Bächlein
Die tote Stadt (The Dead City), Op. 12, Act I: Gluck, das mir verblieb, “Marietta’s Lied”
Johann Strauss II:
Walzer aus Wien, Act III: Frag mich oft (arr. E.W. Korngold, J. Bittner for voice and piano)
I’m in Love with Vienna (arr. D. Tiomkin for voice and piano)
Richard Strauss: 8 Gedichte aus Letzte Blatter, Op. 10, TrV 141: No. 1. Zueignung
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act I: Summertime