Weird Musical Amalgam Number Next: Renée Fleming's "Dark Hope"
Renée Fleming -- or, as she refers to herself on her own website, "America's great soprano" -- has just released Dark Hope, an album of pop and rock covers that includes her take on tunes by Band of Horses, Arcade Fire, the Mars Volta, Tears for Fears, Duffy, Death
Cab for Cutie, Leonard Cohen, Muse, Peter Gabriel, and a few others.
Interestingly, not one of these artists is included in Ms. Fleming's own list of music you should hear.
Nevertheless, I give her kudos for variety.
As for the recording itself, fan reviews are similarly mixed. A taste:
-- "...you can tell that a Rolls Royce engine is powering Volkswagen music"
-- "Leave this music to k.d. lang, please."
-- "For me, I guess Ms. Renee is way too classy to go downtown."
-- "Ms. Fleming has an instrument that seems dipped in chocolate and honey."
-- "Sade does it better."
I defer to my fellow ChordStriker Hugo Munday, a formally trained opera singer and our resident expert on such dramatic fare. "I don't like it," he says, "but my hat's off to her for not doing the grand-diva thing."
Sample the tunes and decide for yourself.
--Jason Kirk
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I very love Renée Fleming. I had gone to her touring piano recital in Seattle at the end of last year.So great
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怀淰＠＾过厾 on August 31, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Thanks Jason. Now I'm a house-trained opera singer. This isn't my cup of tea, although Ms. Fleming certainly is. I heard her touring piano recital in Seattle at the end of last year; she sounded dynamite (some early Messiaen songs I didn't know; simply radiant.)
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Eclectic, but what's the purpose. Mere self indulgence?
nursing top on July 06, 2010 at 12:30 AM
interesting! i think i saw her in her gig or don't know if she was her. LOL but she looks very familiar to me.. hmmm...
Hugo Munday on June 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Thanks Jason. Now I'm a house-trained opera singer. This isn't my cup of tea, although Ms. Fleming certainly is. I heard her touring piano recital in Seattle at the end of last year; she sounded dynamite (some early Messiaen songs I didn't know; simply radiant.)
This offering? The customer comments say it all, but she comes off so much better than many of her ilk that have gone this route, probably because she didn't come up with cheesy tracks to cover.
The torch I carry remains undimmed.