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Vincenzo Bellini, Alfredo Catalani, Antonin Dvorak, George Gershwin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Jules Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Sergey Rachmaninov, Richard Rodgers - Renee Fleming: By Request

Vincenzo Bellini, Alfredo Catalani, Antonin Dvorak, George Gershwin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Jules Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Sergey Rachmaninov, Richard Rodgers - Renee Fleming: By Request

Band: Vincenzo Bellini, Alfredo Catalani, Antonin Dvorak, George Gershwin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Jules Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Sergey Rachmaninov, Richard Rodgers Title: Renee Fleming: By Request Rating: Release Date: 16 September, 2003 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: O Mio Babbino Caro 2: Ebben? ... Ne Andro Lontana 3: Porgi, Amor 4: Come Scoglio 5: Casta Diva 6: E Strano...Ah Fors E Lui...Sempre Libera 7: Un Bel Di Vedremo 8: Je Marche Sur Tous Les Chemins...Gavotte 9: Mesicku Na Nebi Hlubokem (O Silver Moon) 10: Vocalise 11: Cacilie 12: Marietta's Lied 13: Summertime 14: Bachianas Brasileiras No.5: Aria (Cantilena) 15: You'll Never Walk Alone

Editoral Review The rose-in-full-bloom quality of the voice is staggeringly beautiful: Her rendition of Rusalka's "Song to the Moon" is justly famous and is, alone, worth the price of this CD. This is a compilation--plus three previously unreleased selections--of some of the glorious Renée Fleming's finest work, 15 selections covering 13 composers. Other highlights are Marietta's Lied from Korngold's Die tote stadt, an odd arrangement of the aria from Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasilerias No. 5, Manon's Gavotte, and a knock-down-gorgeous reading of Gershwin's "Summertime. " The three new recordings are of Violetta's big first-act scene from La traviata, which features one of the most perfect trills heard since Joan Sutherland, a thrilling Cäcilie (R. Strauss), and a version of "You'll Never Walk Alone" which is so over the-top that it might make you look away in embarrassment. On the basis of this CD, one would have to acknowledge that Fleming is more interested in--and more successful at--pure singing than she is at character delineation (Butterfly sounds oddly like Wally who sounds too much like Norma), but it's not hard to tell why she's a superstar. Her voice and technique are one in a million. --Robert Levine .. You can see a complete list of all Vincenzo Bellini, Alfredo Catalani, Antonin Dvorak, George Gershwin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Jules Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Sergey Rachmaninov, Richard Rodgers discography, or go back to the Vincenzo Bellini, Alfredo Catalani, Antonin Dvorak, George Gershwin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Jules Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Sergey Rachmaninov, Richard Rodgers tabs