Kiri Te Kanawa:London Voices - Christmas With Kiri

Christmas with Kiri was recorded in 1983 and first released on Decca in 1985.It was recorded at a time when Kiri Te Kanawa was at the peak of her career and marked the beginning of the collaboration between her and Carl Davis, most notably when Paul McCartney requested to have Kiri for his Liverpool Oratorio. It followed the Blue Skies album with Nelson Riddle, her first crossover album. The album has not been available for many years and Carl Davis Collection has recently acquired the license to re-release it on its label.Christmas with Kiri is a crossover album with many traditional and popular Christmas songs from White Christmas to Twelve Days of Christmas featuring classics, popular and film. The album was amongst the first group of crossover albums made by Kiri at the time, with West Side Story and South Pacific following.The album also contains a song especially written for the occasion by Carl Davis The Most Wonderful Birthday of All