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KIRI te KANAWA
Kiri te Kanawa: Five Classic Albums Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) with orchestras & conductors [ Warner Five Classic Albums / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2013 ] |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Giacomo Puccini: The Warner Classics Edition Montserrat Caballé, Jose Carreras, Mirelle Freni, Tito Gobbi, Victoria de los Angeles, Barbara Hendricks, Maria Callas, Angela Gheorghiu, Kiri Te Kana [ Warner Classics / 23 CD Box Set - released 15/Nov/2024 ] Central to this performance is Montserrat Caballé's Turandot, a characterisation of striking subtlety and beauty. As the icy, but alluring princess she confronts the Calaf of José Carreras - heroic, seductive and irresistibly appealing to the slave... |
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BELLINI / OFFENBACH / MOZART / DELIBES / MONTEVERDI / DONIZETTI / etc
Natalie Dessay: The Opera Singer [33 CD & 19 DVDs] Natalie Dessay, with Francesco Meli, Jose Van Dam, Patricia Petibon, Sara Mingardo, Kathleen Kim, Ian Bostridge, Veronique Gens, and others [ Erato / Warner Classics / 52 CD Box Set - released 26/Feb/2021 ] "Dessay's performance is simply jaw-dropping.' BBC Music Magazine Award Finalist 2008: Opera [La Sonnambula] |
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VARIOUS
100 Best Carols [6 CD set] Various Artists includes Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Kiri te Kanawa, Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson, Barbara Hendricks, Hermann Prey, etc [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 12/Nov/2007 ] This 6-CD set contains all the best-loved carols that gladden and enrich the Christmas season, performed by outstanding choirs, ensembles and soloists from all over the world. |
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50 BEST CHILLOUT
50 Best Chillout Classics (3 Disc) Various artists incls Choir of King's College, Lesley Garrett, Emma Kirkby, Neville Marriner, Kiri te Kanawa, Monks of Silos, etc [ Warner Classics 50 Best / 3 CD - released 15/Feb/2013 ] This 3 CD set contains 50 tracks of classical chillout music from the catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics performed by some of the world's finest artists. |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini Gold (arias & scenes from the operas) Luciano Pavarotti, PlAcido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Christa Ludwig, Bryn Terfel, Kiri Te Kanawa, Sherrill Milnes, etc [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 16/May/2008 ] G - To mark Puccini's 150th anniversary, a new compilation of the best-loved Puccini arias and ensembles sung by a host of the greatest opera stars. |
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MASCAGNI / WAGNER / DELIBES / PUCCINI / MOZART / GOUNOD / BIZET / etc
Greatest Opera Show on Earth: The World's Greatest Opera Album Various artists incl. Alagna, Carreras, Fleming, Domingo, te Kanawa, Pavarotti & Tebaldi [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 15/Jan/1998 ] A specially priced double CD |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Best Sacred 100: [6 CDs at a special price] Various artists incl Hilliard Ensemble, Ambrosian Singers, Choir of King's College, Philippe Jaroussky, Thomas Hampson, Kiri te Kanawa [ Warner / Erato / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2019 ] A 100 of the world's best-loved sacred songs, arias, choruses and orchestral works. Featuring such composers as Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Gounod, George Frideric Handel, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Johannes Brahms. |
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50 BEST SACRED MUSIC
50 Best Sacred Music: Includes 'Zadok the Priest', 'Ave Maria' & 'Panis angelicus' Veronique Gens, Barbara hendricks, Philippe Jaroussky, Christa Ludwig, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kiri te Kanawa, King's College Choir, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 3/Aug/2017 ] Fifty of the very best popular sacred pieces performed by performers and artists from the giant Warner and Erato catalogues. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Quartet [Original Soundtrack] Hermann Prey, Valerie Masterson, Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri te Kanawa [ Decca Records / CD - released 24/Jan/2013 ] Directed by Dustin Hoffman and based on the play by Ronald Harwood. The film stars Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins and Billy Connolly as retired Opera singers who annually put on a concert to celebrate Verdis birthday. |
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GERSHWIN / RODGERS / BERLIN / HERRMANN / SCHOENBERG / WAXMAN / etc
John Mauceri - The Sound of Hollywood John Mauceri, with Julie Andrews, Ben Kingsley, Marilyn Horne, Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir John Gielgud, Patti LuPone [ Decca / Eloquence / 16 CD Box Set - released 17/Nov/2023 ] The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra breathed new life into the orchestral pops repertoire, told new stories and brought in new audiences when it was revived under the conductor John Mauceri in the 1990s. |
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TRADITIONAL
Waiata Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra [ Sony / CD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] In 1999 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa released 'Maori Songs', her second collection of Maori folk songs and prayers. That project was initiated by prominent NZ pianist/arranger Carl Doy, who has 13 years later created the follow up album 'Waiata'. |
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KIRI te KANAWA
Opera in the Outback Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) / Adelaide Symphony Orchestra with the Adnyamathanha Women's Choir [ Kultur / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 29/Jul/2008 ] G : - Opera in the Outback features internationally renowned diva, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, singing a superb selection of songs from opera favourites to the popular classics. |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Kiri te Kanawa sings Verdi and Puccini arias Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard [ Sony / CD - released 1/Mar/1983 ] "It is a pleasure to recommend this programme of Verdi and Puccini without reservation." (Gramophone) |
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MICHEL LEGRAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Magic - Kiri sings Michel Legrand Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) / London Studio Orchestra, Michel Legrand [ Teldec / CD - released 17/Aug/1992 ] "The result is a wonderful kaleidoscope of vocal sounds which could never be applied to classical music but which could only have come from a classically trained singer." MusicWeb |
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GABRIEL FAURE / MAURICE DURUFLE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Requiem / Durufle: Requiem Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) Lucia Popp (soprano) Siegmund Numsgern (baritone) / Ambrosian Singers, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio De Almeida [ Sony Essential Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/1997 ] Recorded at All Saints' Church, Tooting Graveney, London: January & July, 1977 |
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KIRI te KANAWA
I Could Have Danced all Night (Concert & Portrait) BLU-RAY Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, John Hopkins / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Stephen Barlow [ Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's story has all the best elements of an operatic fairytale. Coming from a part-Maori background she went on to become one of the world's most famous opera stars. |
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PURCELL / RACHMANINOV / LISZT / GRANADOS / RAVEL
The Kiri Te Kanawa Songbook Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] 'A rich ripe peach of a recital, and in case that suggests something altogether too sweet and lush to satisfy a fastidious taste it should immediately be added that the soprano's tone is fresh, her responsiveness to words keen, the pianist's touch... |
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PURCELL / RACHMANINOV / LISZT / GRANADOS / RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kiri in Recital Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/May/1990 ] "..it should immediately be added that the soprano's tone is fresh, her responsiveness to words keen, the pianist's touch very evidently guided by a refined, lively intelligence, and the programme a delight in the variety." Gramophone |
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GOUNOD / BACH / HANDEL / MENDELSSOHN / MASCAGNI / etc
Kiri te Kanawa - Songs of Inspiration Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) / The Mormon Tabernacle Choir / Utah Symphony Orchestra [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "Dame Kiri te Kanawa sings radiantly" Penguin Stereo Guide |