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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (London, 4 LPs). Matchless Mozartean Sir Georg Solti leads the London Philharmonic and a cast including Kiri Te Kanawa in a sparkling reading...
Charles who?" asked the singer, forgetting for the moment the Prince's warm admiration of her top notes. Her agent hastily explained, his client hastily accepted, and this week, Kiri Te Kanawa, originally from New Zealand and lately of the Royal Opera, will let her shimmering soprano loose on a three-minute anthem by Handel. She will be accompanied by a trumpet soloist and 95 other musicians drawn from three orchestras in which the bridegroom has taken a particular interest...
Barring an act of God, the Irish Republican Army, the nation's unemployed or any combination thereof, Te Kanawa's audience will include one happy couple, 26 prominent clerics, a carefully vetted congregation of 2,500 crowding each other for pew space under the great painted dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, more than 75 technicians manning 21 cameras, and an estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million. They will be tuning in the century's greatest, grandest nuptial, the sort of love story Hollywood doesn't make any more and the kind of spectacle...
...fairly daunting prospect. It would be wrong to say we're not feeling the old butterflies." Or about Designer Bruce Oldfield, turning out dresses for several prominent guests, who dithers: "It's a nightmare. It's great. It's fantastic." Or Kiri Te Kanawa, who says simply that she is "terrified." The frantic pace, the giddy nerves, the spiraling expectation that threatens to run away and never quite does: all of it comes down to one thing. It is an understandable preopening stage fright for what will be, for one day and one day only...
Strauss: Four Last Songs; Orchestral Songs (Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis conductor, Columbia). The early items included here were written in the 1890s; the famous Four Last Songs, incredibly, date from half a century later, in 1948, when the 84-year-old Strauss roused himself to compose shimmering valedictories to nature, life and in effect to the 19th century. Te Kanawa's singing, with its creamy tones and long, effortlessly soaring phrases, is simply ravishing...