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)