Kiri Te Kanawa - A Celebration - Box Set 23CDs

Label : Decca

Format : Flac track

Cover : No

To mark Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 80th birthday, this 23-CD set features her complete recordings for Decca and Philips, supplemented by numerous recordings of sacred music and operas that she made for these labels as well as for Deutsche Grammophon.

As an outstanding Mozart and Richard Strauss interpreter, her music theatre repertoire ranges from Verdi, Puccini and Johann Strauss to Bernstein's "Westside Story". Accompanied by Jeffrey Tate and the English Chamber Orchestra, Kiri Te Kanawa sang the Chants d'Auvergne by Joseph Canteloube as captivatingly as if they had been written for her. We experience the singer with sacred music, together with St Paul's Cathedral Choir and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, as well as in a collection of sacred works from Bach to Karl Jenkins. With Nelson Riddle and André Previn, she proved her skills as a jazz interpreter. Her Christmas album "Christmas with Kiri" concludes the collection, which draws on the covers of the original albums.

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