Haunted Heart

Renée Fleming's latest recording, Haunted Heart explores terrain that will be unfamiliar to many of her listeners, but is actually an integral part of what makes her the singer she is today. Haunted Heart is a very personal album of ballads, standards and popular songs performed here with the help of jazz mavericks Bill Frisell (guitar) and Fred Hersch (piano). In her liner notes to the recording, Fleming writes: 'This is a project I have long dreamt of realizing. It is not only an exploration of some of the music that has always inspired me, but a personal journey back on a road not taken. With this record I want to share my love for a group of highly emotional and beautiful songs, irrespective of the labels of jazz, pop, or classical, while introducing you to my 'other voice' and a style of singing to which I thought I would be dedicating my career, until circumstance put me decidedly in the classical arena. These songs have haunted my heart over the years, and my hope is that they will touch yours.'