Verdi & Puccini / Kiri Te Kanawa, Pritchard, London PO

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Label
CBS Masterworks
Release Date
July 7, 2009
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PUCCINI, GIACOMO
    • PERFORMER
      Dame Kiri, Te Kanawa
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Don Carlo, Act IV: Tu che la vanita conoscesti

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa

      Conductor: John Pritchard

    2. Il trovatore, Act IV: Timor di me? - D'amour sull'ali rosee

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa

      Conductor: John Pritchard

    3. La traviata, Act I: E' strano! E' strano! - Ah, fors' a lui

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa, Laurence Dale

      Conductor: John Pritchard

    4. Le Villi, Act I: Se come voi piccina io Fossi

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa

      Conductor: John Pritchard

    5. Tosca, Act II: Vissi d'arte

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa

      Conductor: John Pritchard

    6. La Rondine, Act I: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa

      Conductor: John Pritchard

    7. La bohème, Act II: Quando me'n vo' soletta per la via

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa

      Conductor: John Pritchard

    8. Manon Lescaut, Act II: In quelle trine morbide

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa

      Conductor: John Pritchard

    9. Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa

      Conductor: John Pritchard

    10. Madama Butterfly, Act II: Un bel di, vedremo

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa

      Conductor: John Pritchard


Having admitted to only qualified enthusiasm for Dame Kiri's recent CD albums of popular repertoire and folk-songs, it is a pleasure to recommend this programme of Verdi and Puccini arias without reservation. The beautiful voice has never sounded better and the clear well-balanced recording allows us to hear the expressive pointing of meaning and characterization to perfection. Orchestral sound too is excellent, though slightly set back in relation to the ideally perspectived voice.

-- John Borwick, Gramophone [5/1985]