Renée Fleming's favorite things in the Globe

Jeremy Eichler's review of Renée Fleming's recital on Sunday ran in today's Globe. Here's a taste:

"It's not easy to make Symphony Hall feel like an intimate space, but Renée Fleming did so with her Celebrity Series recital on Sunday afternoon. On paper, it was a fairly
idiosyncratic program of 20th-century works that shared little in
common, from Strauss to Messiaen to John Kander. No particular agenda,
no surprising links or thematic heavy lifting - just an enjoyable
tasting menu of music Fleming loves and for the most part sings well."

In general, Eichler had more bones to pick with Fleming's performance than the audience: he wasn't as "adoring" as most of the rest of us in Symphony Hall were. But he was "at the same concert as the rest of us" to repeat a common audience take on concert reviews. Read all of A Fleming Sampler: Messiaen to Americana.