℗ 2021 Universal Music Operations Limited; A Decca Classics Release
Released | October 8, 2021 |
Duration | 1h 02m 34s |
Record Label | Decca Music Group |
Genre | Classical |
Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene
Renée Fleming, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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Evening
Kevin Puts; Dorianne Laux; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
5:57 | |||
2 Songs, Op. 83
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1.2
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No. 1, Prison
Gabriel Fauré; Paul Verlaine; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
2:23 | |||
12 Rondels
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1.3
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No. 9, Les étoile
Reynaldo Hahn; Théodore de Banville; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
3:20 | |||
Chansons grises
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1.4
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No. 5, L'heure exquise
Reynaldo Hahn; Paul Marie Verlaine; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
2:54 | |||
5 Mélodies de Venise, Op. 58
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1.5
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No. 2, En sourdine
Gabriel Fauré; Paul Verlaine; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
3:30 | |||
1.6
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Rêve d'amour, Op. 5 No. 2
Gabriel Fauré; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
2:32 | |||
1.7
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S'il est un charmant gazon, S. 284
Franz Liszt; Victor Marie Hugo; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
3:07 | |||
1.8
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Endless Space
Nico Muhly; Robinson Meyer; Thomas Traherne; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
8:42 | |||
3 Songs, Op. 23
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1.9
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No. 1, Les berceaux
Gabriel Fauré; René François Sully-Prudhomme; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
3:08 | |||
3 Songs, Op. 8
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1.10
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No. 1, Au bord de l'eau
Gabriel Fauré; Sully Prudhomme; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
2:01 | |||
1.11
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L'énamourée
Reynaldo Hahn; Théodore de Banville; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
3:34 | |||
1.12
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Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, S. 306
Franz Liszt; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
3:47 | |||
6 Songs, Op. 48
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1.13
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No. 3, Lauf der Welt
Edvard Grieg; Johann Ludwig Uhland; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
1:37 | |||
1.14
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No. 5, Zur Rosenzeit
Edvard Grieg; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
3:07 | |||
1.15
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No. 6, Ein Traum
Edvard Grieg; Friedrich von Bodenstedt; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
2:15 | |||
1.16
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Aurora Borealis
Caroline Shaw; Mary Jo Salter; Renée Fleming; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
4:58 | |||
1.17
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Before the Deluge (Arr. Caroline Shaw)
Jackson Browne; Caroline Shaw; Dominic Mekky; Renée Fleming; Alison Krauss; Rhiannon Giddens; Yannick Nézet-Séguin |
5:42 |
Grammy Award WINNER, 2023 – Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Voice Of Nature - The Anthropocene
Renée Fleming, soloist; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist
Renée Fleming releases Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, her new album with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Inspired by the solace Fleming found while hiking near her Virginia home during lockdown, the album explores the centrality of nature in Romantic-era song and highlights the peril and fragility of the natural world today.
Says Fleming, “This music begins in a time almost two centuries ago, when people had a profound connection to the beauty of nature. Now, in the Anthropocene, we see the effects of our own activity, and the fragility of our environment. Nature has been so good to us: we have not been so good to nature.”
Fleming and her collaborator, the Canadian conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin, have hand-picked a selection of works in which composers and poets find human experience and love reflected in the world of nature. A celebrated performer of art song, Fleming draws on both well-loved and lesser-known classical repertoire, with music by Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Gabriel Fauré, and Reynaldo Hahn.
The album includes premieres of two new commissions from living composers. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts sets “Evening” by the American poet Dorianne Laux, and Nico Muhly collages poetry from the 17th-century English theologian Thomas Traherne with excerpts from writings by Robinson Meyer, a journalist who covers climate change, in Endless Space. Originally premiered by Fleming at Carnegie Hall in 2017, Caroline Shaw’s Aurora Borealis, to a text by poet Mary Jo Salter, is given its world-recording premiere.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Decca Music Group Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.74 -10.66 to -0.70 | -24.63 -32.24 to -15.82 | -20.60 -28.20 to -12.40 | 12 9 to 14 | |
1 | Evening | -0.70 | -22.04 | -17.8 | 13 |
2 | No. 1, Prison | -2.86 | -24.61 | -20.3 | 13 |
3 | No. 9, Les étoile | -2.96 | -22.55 | -18.8 | 11 |
4 | No. 5, L'heure exquise | -10.66 | -32.24 | -28.2 | 12 |
5 | No. 2, En sourdine | -6.75 | -25.66 | -22.3 | 11 |
6 | Rêve d'amour, Op. 5 No. 2 | -4.65 | -24.78 | -21.6 | 12 |
7 | S'il est un charmant gazon, S. 284 | -4.03 | -23.14 | -19.7 | 12 |
8 | Endless Space | -3.41 | -25.56 | -21.1 | 14 |
9 | No. 1, Les berceaux | -0.96 | -25.13 | -21.2 | 13 |
10 | No. 1, Au bord de l'eau | -5.44 | -25.89 | -22.3 | 12 |
11 | L'énamourée | -5.25 | -28.84 | -24.6 | 13 |
12 | Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh, S. 306 | -1.72 | -25.28 | -19.5 | 14 |
13 | No. 3, Lauf der Welt | -3.14 | -24.06 | -20.1 | 12 |
14 | No. 5, Zur Rosenzeit | -5.08 | -25.64 | -21.7 | 12 |
15 | No. 6, Ein Traum | -0.70 | -20.76 | -16.8 | 10 |
16 | Aurora Borealis | -4.54 | -26.82 | -21.8 | 13 |
17 | Before the Deluge (Arr. Caroline Shaw) | -0.70 | -15.82 | -12.4 | 9 |