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| ARTIST: | Richard Strauss, Andrew Davis, Kiri Te Kanawa |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony |
| TYPE: | Romantic Music for Voice and Keyboard, Classical, Classical Composers, Solo Voice(s) and Orchestra, Vocal, Classical Music |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Four Last Songs: Spring, Four Last Songs: September, Four Last Songs: Time To Sleep, Four Last Songs: At Dusk, Tomorrow, Op. 27, No. 4, A Mother's Dallying, Op. 43, No. 2, Rest, My Soul, Op. 27, No. 1, Cradle Song, Op. 4, No. 1, Released, Op. 39, No. 4, Thanks, Op. 10, No. 1 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 074643514026 |
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Customer Reviews of Kiri Te Kanawa - Strauss: Four Last Songs, Orchestral Songs / A. Davis
Grateful My copy of this amazing CD was provided by Tony's Music Box and I found it in wonderful condition. <
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>I lost my old original cassette and was afraid I would not be able to replace the recording. Thanks for speedily sending the CD. <
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>I am grateful as this is my favorite music and Te Kanawa was born to sing Strauss.
Superlative Kiwi
Like Thomas Lapins, I first became aware of Dame Kiri's Strauss version through the film "The Year of Living Dangerously", which I think incorrectly named the song "September", which was actually "Time To Sleep" or "Beim Schlafengehen" in the original.
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>The piece aforementioned certainly assisted the dramitic apex of that film, which made it a classic.
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>Personally, I much prefer her version to Elisabeth Schwarkopf's, but that is merely my taste and when you hear something through experience, you tend to prefer it. Still, her voice is superlative.
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>Also, I highly recommend Jane Eaglen's more recent Sony version. She has a wonderful voice, too.
Stunning for the sheer beauty of Te Kanawa's young voice--shades of early Schwarzkopf
Kiri Te Kanawa and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf overlapped in all their opera roles by Richard Strauss, and both happened to make two recordings of the Four Last Songs. In either case the first recording was not as deep so far as interpreatation and conducting went, but the ravishing quality of the voice swept all before it. Schwarzkopf sang her second version under George Szell, and even though her voice had faded, the combination of musical depth and orchestral excellence made for a classic of the gramophone.
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>In the case of Te Kanawa, I'd give the nod to this early CBS recording under Andrew Davis. He is certainly as good as Otto Ackerman on Schwarzkopf's first effort, but thanks to good stereo sound, no one can better Te Kanawa's bewitching voice. As another reviewer states, she uses it as a pure instrument, not paying much attention to the words--in that regard she cannot match Schwarzkopf. But as with other vocally gorgeous accounts of these songs (from Jessye Norman, Renee Fleming, and Gundula Janowitz) the thrill of the voice is enough. On second thought, when she's at her best, Te Kanawa puts more into the poetry than Isobeski, Popp, and Auger among more recent recordings.
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>In her remake on Decca from 1991 under Solti, we also get 13 songs with piano accompaniment to fill out the recital. The Gramophone preferred Solti and the older Te Kanawa for their mature musicality, not to mention that this earlier CD is stingy--it supplies only 6 extra orchestral songs. I'm not out to disagree, but the later Te Kanawa, as well as she managed her voice, cannot match her first, pristine beauty.