Listen live to this episode of Carnegie Hall Live on Thursday, August 19th, at 9 pm.
Our penultimate Carnegie Hall Live show for this season includes a replay of the 2013 recital by two great American singers: soprano Renée Fleming and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. The two are longtime friends on the concert stage, friends in the opera house, and friends offstage. Their careers have crisscrossed more than once on their way to international stardom and triumphant performances that have lasted for decades.
Fleming and Graham titled this 2013 recital "Soiree Francaise," an all-French evening of songs, arias and operatic duets. The program includes works by Debussy, Faure, Hahn and many more composers from the Belle Epoch, the heady decades prior to World War I when Paris was the cultural capital of Europe. The pianist is the renowned collaborator Bradley Moore.
Filling out the second half of the show is the Carnegie Hall debut of the up-and-coming pianist Beatrice Rana. She performs Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Gramophone magazine said the young pianist "possesses an old soul that belies her twenty years, and more than a touch of genius.”
Program:
Renée Fleming, Soprano
Susan Graham, Mezzo-soprano
Bradley Moore, Piano
Saint-Saëns: Pastorale; Viens!; Une flute invisible, El desdichado
Faure: Puisqu’ici-bas, Op. 10 No 1; Pleurs d’or, Op.72;
Pavane in F-sharp Minor, Op. 50; Tarentelle, Op. 10, No 2
Debussy: Clair de lune; Mandoline; Beau soir
Delibes: Les filles de Cadix
Hahn: Le rossignol des lilas; Infidelite; Fêtes galantes; Le printemps
Berlioz: La mort d’Ophelie, Op. 18, No 2
Messager: Blanche-Marie et Marie-Blanche, from "Les, p’tites Michu"
Offenbach: Barcarolle, from "Les contes d’Hoffman"
Mozart: Ah guarda sorella, from Così fan tutte
Piaf: La Vie En Rose
Humperdinck: Evening Prayer from "Hansel and Gretel"