Kathleen Battle - Kathleen Battle Edition (15CD Boxset CD BOX SET)

Kathleen Battle - Kathleen Battle Edition (15CD Boxset CD BOX SET)

A Limited Edition, Original Jackets collection showcasing the artistry of the magnificent American soprano, Kathleen Battle. Kathleen Battle enraptured opera audiences of the 1980s and 1990s. Here was a lyric soprano combining unsurpassable beauty of tone with a keen musical intelligence, a way with words and a communicative warmth that drew listeners to Strauss and spirituals alike. She has the easy phrasing of a great jazz singer combined with the breath, breadth and precise projection of a trained voice.

TRACK LIST
CD 1
J.S. BACH Arias
Itzhak Perlman
John Nelson

CD 2
MOZART Opera Arias
James Levine

CD 3
Bel Canto – Italian Opera Arias
Bruno Campanella

CD 4
French Opera Arias
Myung-Whun Chung
CD 5
Honey and Rue
André Previn

CD 6
Live in Tokyo 1988
Plácido Domingo
James Levine

CD 7
Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall
Margo Garrett

CD 8
Salzburg Recital
James Levine

CD 9
SCHUBERT Lieder
James Levine

CD 10
Spirituals in Concert
Jessye Norman
James Levine
CD 11
Pleasures of their Company
Christopher Parkening

CD 12
A Christmas Celebration
Leonard Slatkin

CD 13
Kathleen Battle sings Sacred Music
Mozart · Haydn · Handel · Poulenc · Fauré
James Levine ∙ Andrew Davis
Seiji Ozawa ∙ Carlo Maria Giulini

CD 14
Kathleen Battle sings Handel and Mozart
John Nelson · Sir Georg Solti · Herbert von Karajan · Alain Lombard

CD 15
Kathleen Battle sings Opera and Concert Arias
Rossini ∙ Donizetti ∙ Verdi ∙ J. Strauss II · R. Strauss ∙ Wagner ∙ Mendelssohn
Claudio Abbado ∙ Ion Marin ∙ James Levine · Sir Georg Solti ∙ Herbert Von Karajan ∙ Seiji Ozawa