Renée Fleming comes to Carnegie Hall in New York City Tuesday night, accompanied by Hartmut Höll, for a performance in Stern Auditorium that includes songs from Brad Mehldau's The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, the pianist/composer's 2005 Carnegie Hall-commissioned song cycle in which he sets the early poetry of Rainer Marie Rilke to music. The songs were included on Mehldau and Fleming's 2006 Nonesuch album Love Sublime, which, said the New York Times, "succeeds handsomely as a showcase for Ms. Fleming, and as an example of Mr. Mehldau's deft calibration of pretense and personality." Mehldau is holder of the 2010-2011 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall.

Fleming performed tonight's program at The Kennedy Center in Washgington, DC, on Saturday, to which the soprano "brought her A-game," says Washington Post classical music critic Anne Midgette, in a review of the concert. Midgette says the repertoire, which included Mehldau's songs, "showcased her gifts beautifully." You can read the concert review at washingtonpost.com.

For more information on tonight's concert, which also includes works by Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Korngold, and Strauss, visit carnegiehall.org.

To pick up a copy of Love Sublime, with the complete album MP3s included at checkout, head to the Nonesuch Store, where you can also pre-order Mehldau's forthcoming Nonesuch release, Live in Marciac, a two CD, one DVD live album due out February 22.

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Mehldau's next live performance will take place next week at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, on January 21. He will be joined by label mate Joshua Redman and the other featured performers on Mehldau's latest Nonesuch release, Highway Rider, for the last scheduled performance of that piece in its entirety. Mehldau will perform a solo set in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall on January 26. For more information on these and other upcoming performances by Mehldau, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.