Renée Fleming, Soprano
Inon Barnatan, Piano
Performers
Renée Fleming, Soprano
Inon Barnatan, Piano
Program
BRAHMS "Ständchen," Op. 106, No. 1
BRAHMS "Die Mainacht," Op. 43, No. 2
BRAHMS "Mondnacht"
BRAHMS "Da unten im Tale" from 49 Deutsche Volkslieder, No. 6
BRAHMS "Junge Lieder I," Op. 63, No. 5
BRAHMS "Wiegenlied," Op. 49, No. 4
BRAHMS "Vergebliches Ständchen," Op. 84, No. 4
ANDRÉ PREVIN Selections from Ten by Yeats (NY Premiere)
·· "A Song"
·· "When You Are Old"
·· "The Moods"
·· "Brown Penny"
·· "Sweet Dancer"
·· "The Fiddler of Dooney"
ANDRÉ PREVIN "I can smell the sea air" from A Streetcar Named Desire
CAROLINE SHAW "Aurora Borealis" (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
CAROLINE SHAW "Bed of Letters" (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
KORNAUTH Selections from Lieder, Op. 37
·· "Lockung"
·· "Treue"
·· "Nachklänge I"
·· "Waldeinsamkeit"
R. STRAUSS Selections from Ariadne auf Naxos
·· "Ach! Wo war ich? Tot?—Ein Schönes war, hiess Theseus-Ariadne"
·· "Es gibt ein Reich"
Encores:
R. STRAUSS "Cäcilie," Op. 27, No. 2
WILLSON "Till There Was You" from The Music Man
DVOŘÁK "Song to the Moon" from Rusalka
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission.
This performance is sponsored by Bank of America, Carnegie Hall's Proud Season Sponsor.
The Trustees of Carnegie Hall gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon in support of the 2017-2018 season.
Lead support for the 125 Commissions Project is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Additional funding is provided by members of Carnegie Hall's Composer Club.
At a Glance
Bios
Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming is one of the most acclaimed singers of our time. In 2013, President Barack
Obama awarded her America's highest honor for an artist, the National Medal of Arts. She
brought her voice to a vast new audience in 2014, as the first classical artist ever to
sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl. Winner of the 2013 Grammy Award (her
fourth) for Best Classical Vocal Solo, Ms. Fleming has sung for momentous occasions from
the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II at
Buckingham Palace. A groundbreaking distinction came in 2008 when she became the first
woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo headline an opening night
gala.
Ms. Fleming's 2017 tour schedule includes concerts in Vienna, Budapest, Paris, London,
Madrid, Brussels, Beijing, and Tokyo. In 2018, she will appear on Broadway in a major
revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. Last season, she appeared as the Marschallin
in a new production of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Royal Opera, Covent
Garden, reprising the role at the Metropolitan Opera in the spring. In June, she joined
with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the US National Institutes of
Health to launch a major initiative that explores the positive effects of music and music
therapy on health and the brain.
Ms. Fleming's most recent album, Distant Light, was recorded with the Royal
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and released in January by Decca. Recipient of 14 Grammy
nominations to date, she has recorded everything from complete operas and song recitals to
indie rock, jazz, and the soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
King. She will soon be heard as the singing voice of Roxane, played by Julianne Moore,
in the film based on the best-selling novel Bel Canto.
Among Ms. Fleming's awards are the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, Germany's Cross
of the Order of Merit, Sweden's Polar Music Prize, and France's Chevalier de la Légion
d'Honneur, as well as honorary doctorates from Harvard University, the University of
Pennsylvania, Duke University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Eastman School of Music, and
The Juilliard School. For additional information, visit reneefleming.com.
Inon Barnatan
Inon Barnatan is celebrated for his poetic
sensibility, musical intelligence, and consummate artistry. He was the recipient of the
prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009, as well as Lincoln Center's 2015 Martin E.
Segal Award. A regular performer with many of the world's most celebrated orchestras and
conductors, Mr. Barnatan recently completed his third and final season as the New York
Philharmonic's inaugural artist-in-association, a position created by Alan Gilbert--the
orchestra's former music director--who has described Mr. Barnatan as "the complete artist:
a wonderful pianist, a probing intellect, passionately committed, and a capable
contemporary pianist as well." Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Barnatan have since collaborated
numerous times, and are in the process of recording the complete Beethoven piano concertos
with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, which will mark the orchestra's first
complete recording of a Beethoven concerto cycle.
A sought-after chamber musician, Mr. Barnatan was a member of the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center's CMS Two program from 2006 to 2009, and is still a regular performer on CMS
programs at home in New York and on tour. His passion for contemporary music has led him to
commission and perform numerous works by living composers, including the premieres of works
by Thomas Adès, Sebastian Currier, Avner Dorman, Matthias Pintscher, Alasdair Nicolson, and
Andrew Norman, among others.
Called "a born Schubertian" by Gramophone, Mr. Barnatan's critically acclaimed
discography includes Avie and Bridge recordings of Schubert's solo piano works, as well as
Darknesse Visible, which earned a coveted place on The New York Times
Best of 2012 list. Mr. Barnatan's 2015 Decca Classics recording of Chopin and Rachmaninoff
cello sonatas with Alisa Weilerstein earned rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. His
latest album is a live recording of Messiaen's 90-minute masterpiece Des canyons aux
étoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars), in which he played the exceptionally
challenging solo piano part with an ensemble conducted by Mr. Gilbert at the Santa Fe
Chamber Music Festival.