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A star-filled Prom: Sure on this Shining Night

In her highly anticipated return to the BBC Proms, soprano Renee Fleming lends her luminous voice to Samuel Barber's shimmering miniature which sets the words of James Agee evoking a star-lit summer night in pre-war America.

Photo: Mark Allan/ BBC

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BBC Proms on the World ServiceBBC Proms 2017, Renée Fleming sings Barber and Strauss

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