Artist: Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
Album: Distant Light: Barber – Hillborg – Björk
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2017
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 53:47
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 946 MB

Tracklist:

01. Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op.24 (15:35)
02. Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – The Strand Settings: 1. Black Sea (04:17)
03. Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – The Strand Settings: 2. Dark Harbor XX (05:08)
04. Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – The Strand Settings: 3. Dark Harbor XXXV (05:25)
05. Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – The Strand Settings: 4. Dark Harbor XI (05:48)
06. Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Virus (04:24)
07. Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Joga (04:36)
08. Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – All Is Full Of Love (03:12)
09. Renée Fleming, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Undo (05:17)

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‘Distant Light’ is Renée Fleming’s first foray into the hypnotic world of Scandinavian music. For her first new studio album in three years she has chosen to inspire and provoke with a daring mix of music.

The title comes from a poem in a new song cycle dedicated to Renée and here receiving its world premiere recording: Anders Hillborg’s ‘The Strand Settings’.

“At once atmospheric, elegiac and unsettling, the work was crafted with Ms. Fleming’s creamy voice in mind”, wrote the New York Times at its first performance in 2013. One of Sweden’s brightest star composers Hillborg has a close relationship with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic where this recording was made in February 2016 with its principal conductor Sakari Oramo.

Renée couples this with three songs by Björk in specially commissioned orchestrations by the brilliant Swedish composer and arranger Hans Ek, recorded here for the first time.

Why Björk? Both she and Renée are recipients of Sweden’s Polar Music Prize. Both dare to be original. In the fascinating booklet interview Renée talks about her admiration for Björk: “Her originality is breathtaking. She just blazes her own path forward”. Renée chooses the songs which mean the most to her personally and musically.