Prom 32: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra August 6, 2007

Renée Fleming sings Berg's luminous Seven Early Songs – tonight expanded with a new orchestration of an additional early song. Fleming also shows a more seductive side in two gorgeously upholstered arias by anniversary-composer Korngold. Schumann's Beethovenian Second Symphony and Beethoven's Eighth complete a varied Austro-German programme.

Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F Major (28 mins)
Berg
Seven Early Songs (18 mins)
An Leukon (arr. C. Gordon; UK premiere) (2 mins)

Interval

Korngold
Die Kathrin – 'Ich soll ihn niemals, niemals mehr sehn' (5 mins)
Korngold
Das Wunder der Heliane – 'Ich ging zu ihm' (7 mins)
Schumann
Symphony No. 2 in C Major (38 mins)

Renée Fleming soprano
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda conductor

Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2007/whatson/0608.shtml