Kathleen Ferrier - Purcell, Handel, Bach, Wolf, Folksongs, Broadcast Recitals / Decca Audio CD 1992 / 433 473-2

UPC 028943347327

Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar. Her death from cancer, at the height of her fame, was a shock to the musical world and particularly to the general public, which was kept in ignorance of the nature of her illness until after her death.

Tracklist:

[1] The fairy lough (Stanford)   3.39

[2] A soft day (Stanford)   2.53

[3] Love is a bable (Parry)   1.39

[4] Silent noon (Vaughan Williams)   4.53

[5] Go not, happy day (Bridge)   1.34

[6] Sleep (Warlock)   2.47

[7] Pretty ring-time (Warlock)   1.16

[8] OnE An ET Cea iaiarstep)   4.14

[9] Come you not from Newcastle? (arr. Britten)  1.32

[10] Kitty, my love (arr. Hughes)   1.21

[11] Mad Bess of Bedlam (Purcell, arr. Britten)   7.04

[12] Hark! the echoing air (Purcell)   3.13

[13] Like as the love-lorn turtle (Handel)   7.12

[14] How changed the vision (Handel)   4.58

[15] Verborgenheit (Wolf)   3.47

[16] Der Gartner (Wolf)   1.47

[17] Auf ein altes Bild (Wolf)   3.19

[18] Auf einer Wanderung (Wolf)   3.42

[19] Altar (Jensen)   4.10

[20] VergiB mein nicht (J.S. Bach) Ae

[21] Ach, daB nicht die letzte Stunde (J.S. Bach) 1.58

[22] Bist du bei mir (attrib. U.S. Bach)   3.31
 

• Piano - Frederick Stone, Phyllis Spurr, John Newmark
• Harpsichord - Millicent Silver