Kiri te Kanawa - "Silent night"

Kiri te Kanawa sings "Silent night"

Choir of Conventry and Lichfield Cathedrals
BBC Philharmonic
conducted by Robin Stapleton

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Kiri
• te
• Kanawa
• Silent
• night
• christmas
• classical
• soprano
• Choir

[LizN90]

What is the date on this?

[napat14]

December 3,1994

[musicyh]

Well..vibrato is not an 'embellishment'. It is something that comes naturally when you're singing properly, opera or non-opera. When you have a soloist (even in a choir) who has had vocal lessons, there's bound to be some vibrato unless the person is a boy soprano or a little girl in her early teens. Kiri is already using less vibrato than usual over here. Any less and she'd be straight-toning (which sounds just wrong/eerie coming from a mature adult).

[musicyh]

So exquisite! Her voice just soars effortlessly, and it's such a pious rendition - especially at the end. I would have loved it taken at a slightly slower tempo though...this tempo makes it sound a bit rushed.

[mojorama1]

By any standards this is very very good. Anyone who thinks otherwise is quite simply wrong. I can't say fairer than that.

[Vagalume1949]

A voz de KIRI TE KANAWA e uma dadiva de Deus como tambem a composicao de NOITE FELIZ; uma combinacao perfeita.

[nailycai]

Kiri is perfection.

[mattawacoffee]

so beautiful voice... melting on my heart.

Thank you for let me listen this ...

[lipera]

Kiri always knew what to sing and this is why she's a phenomenal singer. She has a voice able to succeed in operas and crossover styles. She is a truly artist that by the time flows she only proves how big and talented she is and has always been.

[swanningaround]

leslie. Agreed. Joan Baez has a great voice.

[musicyh]

And by the way, this is hardly *opera vibrato*. In fact, there's hardly any noticeable vibrato at all. You want to hear real opera vibrato, go listen to Kiri's opera arias here.

[musicyh]

So you're saying that you don't like vibrato in this piece, and you don't like straight notes either? Then what do you like? A voice either has vibrato or no vibrato, there is no in-between. If you don't like both, then there's no voice and no singing that would fit your bill.

[PersephoneMilneaux]

Not a fan of this version. I'm no professional critic of music but it sounds very flat and the pace seems wrong compared to how I've always heard it sung. I've never heard Silent Night sung by a woman that I didn't make me cry... this time is the first. I don't know what it is... maybe the classical training took too much of the passion and emotion out of it and just left yet another bar of music to sing for the performer.