A Celebration

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.

Tracklistining:

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