MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Art is Calling Me
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Art is Calling Me
Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) various orchestras and conductors DELETED
[ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 1 January 1999
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This disc covers Te Kanawa's take on works ranging from arias from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera to a native Maori song she has known since her childhood in New Zealand. The selection is varied and well-chosen, but for the listener, what is sung becomes a second consideration to how well Te Kanawa sings it, and hers is a silvery, beautiful voice that is heard here to its best advantage. If you are not familiar with Kiri Te Kanawa and want to know more of her work, this is likely your best option as a place to start.
Audiences attending the 1971 production of Wagner's Parsifal at Covent Garden went away with an abiding memory. Among the bevy of Flower Maidens one voice shone. It was that of a young New Zealand born soprano Kiri te Kanawa, who five years earlier, had left her native land and sailed for London. Already in New Zealand she had established quite a reputation for herself and two days before she sailed gave a final series of farewell concerts tp capity audiences in Wellington's Town Hall. Needless to say, the 2,000 seat hall had been sold out for weeks, for in her early years, Kiri would fill the New Zealand air with song.
Tracks:
O mio babbino caro (Puccini)
Bailero (Canteloube)
Porgi amor (Mozart)
Ruhe Sanft, Mein Holdes Leben (Mozart)
Beim Schlafengehen (Richard Strauss)
Rejoice Greatly (Handel)
Vissi d'arte (Puccini)
Hine e hine (te Rangi Pai)
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
Mariettas Lied (Korngold)
Nun's Chorus (Strauss)
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
Je Dis Que Rien (Bizet)
Libiamo Ne'lieti Calici (Verdi)
Follie! ... Sempre Libera (Verdi)
Wouldn't it be lovely (Loewe)
The Folks who Live on the Hill (Kern)
Art is Calling Me (Herbert)
..and more!
