Richard Strauss - Vier Letzte Lieder (Kiri Te Kanawa)

[@jlb9368]

Time stops to listen to such an outpouring of magnificent sound.

[@sheilaconolly8087]

What a glorious voice! Strauss would have loved to have listened to Kiri in person !!

[@haroldschwartz7835]

This is the greatest of the all. She brings me to tears

[@alangregory9229]

The tears are streaming dowm my cheeks............I can't say how beautiful this is.........forgive me..............

[@b1i2l336]

The gold standard.

[@apalikatt]

Still my favorite Strauss soprano - always has been! She is the maestra of making such difficult music look effortless!

[@elisabethbouchonnet433]

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[@Pierre-xo3vj]

Les derniers chants de Richard Strauss avant de nous quitter...sublimes

[@hiepnguyenquang396]

Sublime ! Une voix unique et une parfaite maîtrise. Inégalable. Surtout quand elle chante Mozart.

[@barbaratrehy4742]

I have listened to many great singers performing this unique and wondrous work, but this is the one I will be taking to the desert island or the grave, whichever comes first. She has that sheer lyrical beauty that so perfectly fits the music. Thank you, Francisco, for posting this.

[@MrAndredekock]

I have Dame Kiri's early recording of this wonderful work (along with MANY other sopranos), which was a really good performance, but this is many years later and both the voice and the person have matured considerably. I believe these songs NEED to be sung by mature women who have been through life and have a deep, first-hand understanding of the cycle of life and the inevitability of death looming on our horizons. Dame Kiri speaks to my spirit with this performance and I have no doubt that Sir Georg has had a large role to play in forming this sublime performance and interpretation. Molto brava!

[@MarkIra613]

FOUND IT! It's the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti Conductor conducting. Recorded live at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester June 17th 1990

[@sandusky0901]

Thank you for sharing and posting the program in its entirety. I think Dame Kiri has done a fabulous interpretation of these lieder.

[@robertooliveira6386]

Dame te Kanawa is absolutely sublime when singing these songs; her singing is so full of nuances and shadings, and each musical note carries a vivid and honest emotion in it. Pity the last movement is a bit too rushed for my taste, but her singing is exquisite, it takes me to a place I didn't know could exist in music.

[@Pierre-xo3vj]

Merci Richard Strauss

[@katashken8382]

Magnificent ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@alanknight9853]

Strauss Lieder + Kiri Te Kanawa + Alexsandro Alves: Política e Liberdade ? I love it.

[@sylviagrobs1438]

Dame Kiri interpreta a la perfeccion copn su coz algo grave mnajestuosamente esta obra sublime de R.Strauss.Tambine el director esta suvlime.He escuchado muchas interpretasciones como estas pero esta cantante creo qyo interpreta al compositor mejor que nuincuna

[@barbaratrehy4742]

It's OK - I found it.

[@MarkIra613]

Is that Solti conducting?

[@Pierre-xo3vj]

Les applaudissements entre chaque lied sont incongrus

[@georget.7348]

Someone should have told those people that it is a song cycle, you only applaud at the end!!!

[@barbaratrehy4742]

By the way, where, when, is the performance? Orchestra?

[@alexsandroalvesartecultura5116]

Manchester, 1990.

[@liedersanger1]

Orchestra, venue, and date?

[@alangregory7514]

I did NOT make the comment below attributed to me.