An Evening with Renee Fleming – Berliner Philharmoniker & Ion Marin

Recorded live at Waldbühne, Berlin, 2010

The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, is the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s summer concerts. With over 20,000 attendances, these are some of the most popular classical music concerts in the world. This year the Berliner Philharmoniker play under the baton of Ion Marin, one of the most exciting conductors on today’s musical scene. They welcome “”America’s Beautiful Voice””, Grammy Award winning soprano Renée Fleming, who has a devoted international following wherever she appears. Her career has been built on success across a wide range of musical styles, but she is best-known for her excellence in opera worldwide. The device of the evening was Night of Love”- the most beautiful Opera Arias in combination with atmospheric instrumental pieces.

FonoForum 07/11: “In the closing monologue of the “Capriccio” Countess Fleming’s singing suddenly becomes lively, gripping and communicative: spontaneously, she even takes she even grabs her beautifully coiffed hair in a moment of (feigned) hopelessness almost like in real life Ion Marin conducts the wonderfully sound-opulent Berlin Philharmonic Philharmonic with great gesture – as it were adequate to the larger-than-life to the larger-than-life dimensions of the Waldbühne and at the latest when Renee Fleming begins “Glück, das mir all reservations disappear and even the most hardened critic melts away even the most hardened critic: “This is where it happens, pure vocal happiness!”