Kiri Te Kanawa - Complete Philips & Decca Recordings
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MOZART / CANTELOUBE / HANDEL / MAHLER / STRAUSS / BERNSTEIN / etc
Kiri Te Kanawa - Complete Philips & Decca Recordings
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), with Elizabeth Bainbridge, Roger Vignoles, André Previn, José Carreras, Georg Solti, etc
[ Decca / 23 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 7 June 2024
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.
Original jackets, Limited edition.
'Kiri Te Kanawa is the brilliant soloist in the cantata, and her radiant account of the lovely Laudate Dominum is one of the high spots of the Solemn Vespers, here given a fine, responsive performance.'
Penguin Stereo Guide - Mozart Choral Works
"Te Kanawa's richly sensuous approach to these delightful songs is very seductive, especially when the accompaniments by Jeffrey Tate and the ECO are so warmly supportive and the sound so opulent." Gramophone - Songs of the Auvergne
"Te Kanawa may not be a soprano you'd cast as Maria on stage, yet the beauty of the voice, its combination of richness, delicacy and purity, brings out the musical strengths of Bernstein's inspiration." Gramophone - West Side Story
"Dame Kiri te Kanawa sings radiantly"
Penguin Stereo Guide - Songs of Inspiration
Tracks:
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 Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti
CD 8 Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
CD 9 Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder; 13 Lieder
Wiener Philharmoniker / Georg Solti, conductor / piano
CD 10 Summer Nights
Berlioz, Bizet, Gounod, Richard Strauss
CD 11 Vissi d'arte
Johann Strauss II, Bernstein, Puccini, Verdi
CD 12 Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne Series 1-3
English Chamber Orchestra / Jeffrey Tate
CD 13 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 14 Kiri in Recital
Roger Vignoles, piano
CD 15 Ave Maria
St. Paul's Cathedral Choir / Barry Rose
CD 16 Songs of Inspiration
Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Utah Symphony Orchestra / Julius Rudel
CD 17 In Paradisum
Fauré, Handel, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Karl Jenkins
CD 18 Kiri Te Kanawa - 50th Birthday Concert
London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn, Stephen Barlow
CD 19 Bernstein: West Side Story
José Carreras, Leonard Bernstein
CD 20 My Fair Lady
London Symphony Orchestra / John Mauceri
CD 21 Blue Skies
Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra
CD 22 Kiri Sidetracks - The Jazz Album
André Previn, Mundell Lowe, Ray Brown
CD 23 Christmas with Kiri
London Voices (Terry Edwards); Philharmonia Orchestra / Carl Davis
