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Hank Zauderer is a violinist and an artist. He regularly hosts an evening classical music program at NPR radio station KUSP in Santa Cruz, California. In the past he was a member of several symphony orchestras and chamber music groups. In particular, he loves the study of great composers and feels that music composition so often reflects the key events that took place in a composer's life.
Hank's taste includes the old Gregorian Chants and related religious works as well as music of the Baroque, Classical, and the Romantic period. Some of his favorites include Mahler, Edward Elgar, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, and Benjamin Britten.
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Kiri Te Kanawa!
Posted: Saturday | 08.07.10
Kiri Te Kanawa!
This CD of great songs and Arias was issued earlier this month (August, 2010). It contains two CD of wonderful performances by Ms. Te Kanawa.
CD 1 is a collection of amazing arias from many different Mozart Operas. Each of these is a gem of its own. The second CD is devoted to the music of Richard Strauss. We hear one of Ms. Te Kanawas great interpretations of Strauss’ “Four Last Songs”. She also sings selections from many Strauss Operas, and a series of Strauss’ songs with orchestra.
Kiri Te Kanawa was born 6 March 1944 in Gisborne, New Zealand, and during her active career brought immeasurable pleasure with her singing to a huge set of listeners world – wide. I always perceived her as a down to earth, hard-working musician, with a fantastic voice, eager and open to work with a great variety of other musicians, conductors and accompanists.
Here is one of my favorite songs by Strauss, “Beim Schlafengehen” (Going to sleep) as done by Ms. Te Kanawa with Georg Solti:
And for those of you who are interested, take a close look at a rehearsal, (likely at Solti’s home?) in which the four last songs are being prepared for performance: