Kiri Te Kanawa - A Celebration [23CD]

Format: 23 x CD
Catalogue No.: 4870009
Barcode: 0028948700097
Release Date: 07 Jun 2024
Genre: Classical

Released to celebrate Dame Kiri Te Kanawa’s 80th birthday, this set features her complete recital recordings for Decca and Philips, filled out with excerpts from the large number of complete recordings of sacred music and opera she made for these labels as well as Deutsche Grammophon. An interpreter of distinction in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, her operatic vocabulary stretched to the verismo of Puccini and Verdi, the great operas of Richard Strauss, and back through Johann Strauss II, as well as a star-studded recording of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera.Accompanied by Jeffrey Tate, Kiri’s warm and full timbre beautifully conveyed the essence of Canteloube’s folk songs, almost suggesting that they were written for her, on two discs of Songs of the Auvergne; and with pianist Roger Vignoles she offers a recital of music from Purcell to Obradors. Taking in three sacred music miscellanies – with the St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and a third offering excerpts from sacred music recordings she made over her career (St. Matthew Passion, Messiah, the Requiems of Fauré and Brahms), this anthology extends to the lighter side of Dame Kiri’s repertoire with collaborators Nelson Riddle and André Previn, and ends with a celebration of Christmas.

TRACKLIST:
CD 1 Mozart: Concert Arias
Wiener Kammerorchester / György Fischer
CD 2 Mozart: Opera Arias
London Symphony Orchestra / Colin Davis
CD 3 Mozart: Arias
Mitsuko Uchida, piano; English Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Tate
CD 4 Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore; Exsultate, jubilate
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Colin Davis
CD 5 Mostly Mozart
John Gay / Mozart / Mahler
CD 6 Handel – The Sorceress
Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood
CD 7 Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder; 13 Lieder*
Wiener Philharmoniker / Georg Solti, conductor / piano*
CD 8 Summer Nights
Berlioz, Bizet, Gounod, Richard Strauss
CD 9 Vissi d’arte
Johann Strauss II, Bernstein, Puccini, Verdi
CD 10 Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne Series 1–3
English Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Tate
CD 11 Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne Series 4–5
English Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Tate
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Cello Ensemble / Lynn Harrell, cello
CD 12 Kiri Te Kanawa Recital
Roger Vignoles, piano
CD 13 Ave Maria
St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir / Barry Rose
CD 14 Songs of Inspiration
Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Utah Symphony Orchestra / Julius Rudel
CD 15 In Paradisum
Fauré, Handel, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Karl Jenkins
CD 16 Kiri Te Kanawa – 50th Birthday Concert
London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn, Stephen Barlow
CD 17 Blue Skies
Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra
CD 18 Kiri Sidetracks – The Jazz Album
André Previn, Mundell Lowe, Ray Brown
CD 19 Christmas with Kiri
London Voices (Terry Edwards); Philharmonia Orchestra / Carl Davis

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