Renée Fleming sings Strauss favorites with Guggeis and the LPO

Renée Fleming and Thomas Guggeis

Renée Fleming

Thomas Guggeis

By Mark Valencia, 06 March 2025

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“the pieces slotted together like a well-made puzzle into a symphonic traversal of Wagner”

Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 5 March 2025

Wagner, Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod

Strauss R., Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)

Wagner, Tannhäuser: Overture

Wagner, Tannhäuser: Venusberg music

Wagner, Lohengrin: prelude to Act 1

Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act 1

Strauss R., Morgen! Op.27 no.4 (Encore)

Thomas Guggeis, Conductor

Renée Fleming, Soprano

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Karabits and Szeps-Znaider carouse with the LPO

Christopher Woodley, 8th April

The sparkle of Max Bruch's Fecond Violin Concerto and the drama of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony overcome the gloom of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s dark forebodings.

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Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO

Roy Westbrook, 1st April

From Three Screaming Popes to Pictures at an Exhibition, a pair of works inspired by paintings frame a violin concerto by Béla Bartók at London's Southbank Centre.

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Ticciati and the LPO deliver epic Sibelius plus lively Wennäkoski

Nick Boston, 25th March

Sibelius' Kullervo receives a dramatic performance from Ticciati and the LPO, with strong turns from Shenyang, Miina-Liisa Värelä and the YL Male Voice Choir.

****1

Paavo Järvi marks his new LPO appointment in Tchaikovsky and Sibelius

Mark Valencia, 4th March

Paavo Järvi demonstrates just why the London Philharmonic Orchestra has chosen him as its next Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor.

*****

Canellakis, Mutter and the LPO at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 24th February

Anne-Sophie Mutter’s commanding presence meet the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s exceptional adaptability, yielding a concert that balances tradition-steeped authority with modern transparency, rhythmic vitality and the orchestra’s own electrifying spontaneity.

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Phoenix Lands: the London Philharmonic blazes with energy

Charlotte Gardner, 4th February

Edward Gardner’s Bacewicz, Martinů, Lutosławski and Janáček set the Royal Festival Hall ablaze.

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.