Kiri
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2001-11-20
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
- Let the bright seraphim
- Dove sono
- Laudate Dominum
- Attendo, attendo...Addio del passato
- Vissi d'arte
- O mio babbino
- Ecco: respiro appena. Io son l'umile ancella
- Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
- Depuis le jour
- Pie Jesu
- The world you're coming into
Music reviews of Kiri
Music Review: Great representation of music from a great singer
Rating: 5 Stars
A terrific album by a great singer. This album represents the considerable territory that Kiri Te Kanawa covers in here repertoire. She moves easily from Handel to Puccini to Jerome Kern. The insertion of classic show tunes as a part of this CD is a nice little plus. Some opera stars absolutely kill popular music by overwhelming it with operatic technique (listen to Richard Tucker singing "What now my love"; this is a pleasant little tune, but it can't stand up to Tucker's voice of steel, using all the power at his command). Te Kanawa sings these songs, for the most part, nicely and does not overpower them with operatic conventions.
She does a wonderful job on Handel's "Let the bright seraphim," displaying good coloratura technique, as a matter of fact. This cut nicely illustrates the clean sound of her voice. Her version of "Dove sono" (from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro) is a reflective rendering of this aria. The smoothness of her vocal line is wonderful to hear. Her version of "Vissi d'arte" (from Puccini's Tosca) also illustrates the art of Dame Kiri.
The popular tunes that follow are very interesting. She and Jose Carreras, at the outset, begin to overwhelm "Tonight" (from "West Side Story," with--by the way--Leonard Bernstein himself conducting this cut), making it appear that this might be one of those dismal pieces where opera singers wreck songs. However, shortly thereafter, the song becomes more Broadway than Metropolitan Opera, and that is to the good. Better still are Te Kanawa's versions of classic songs such as "Summertime" (from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess), where singing in a higher register works nicely and where she treats the song on its own terms; just so, Jerome Kern's "Smoke gets in your eyes" is sung so well. It is a poignant version of this song.
All in all, for those who are curious about Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, this is one interesting entr?e. Well worth acquiring and listening to.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Bernstein, Leonard
- ( C ) > Canteloube, Joseph
- ( F ) > Faur?, Gabriel
- ( G ) > Gounod, Charles
- ( M ) > Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- ( P ) > Porter, Cole
- Puccini, Giacomo
- ( V ) > Verdi, Giuseppe
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( B ) > Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- ( L ) > London Philharmonic Orchestra
- ( N ) > National Philharmonic Orchestra London
- ( R ) > Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
- ( T ) > Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Classical (c.1770-1830) > Vocal & Song
- General
- Early Music
- Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Vocal & Song
- Romantic (c.1820-1910) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Vocal & Song
- Sacred & Religious > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830)
- Modern & 20th Century
- Romantic (c.1820-1910)
- Languages > German
- Italian
- Oratorios
- Vocal Non-Opera > Oratorios
- Requiems
- Bernstein, Leonard - Works by Bernstein
- Gounod, Charles - Works by Gounod
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Porter, Cole - Works by Porter
- Puccini, Giacomo - Works by Puccini
- Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( F ) - Faur?, Gabriel - General
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