Scene from: Christmas with Kiri Te Kanawa
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Conductor: Robin Stapleton
This Christmas carol concert features Kiri Te Kanawa accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra from Coventry Cathedral, England.
The concert includes performances of the Coventry Carol - part of the Coventry Mystery Cycle; the seventeenth century O Tannenbaum reflecting the German love of Christmas trees; In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti and Gustav Holst; the Trinidadian carol Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy; and Torches perhaps the finest Christmas hymn of modern times.
The concert concludes with Kiri Te Kanawa singing the most popular Christmas hymn ever written, Silent Night.
Catalogue: 4509990012