Kathleen Ferrier - Mahler ~ Kindertotenlieder & Gluck ~ Greene ~ Handel ~ Mendelssohn ~ Purcell / Baillie, Moore, B. Walter
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Composer: Christoph Willibald GluckComposer: Maurice Greene
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Composer: Henry Purcell
Conductor: Bruno Walter
Conductor: Charles Bruck
Performer: Salzburg Vienna Philharmoniker
Orchestra: Netherlands Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Performer: Netherlands Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Performer: Gerald Moore
Performer: Isobel Baillie
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
- Let Us Wander Not Unseen
- Spring is coming
- Come to me, soothing sleep
- Chiamo il mio ben cos? (Act 1)
- Deh! placatevi con me (Act 2)
- Che puro cie! (Act 2)
- Che feci mai?...Che far? senza Eurdice? (Act 3)
- No. 1, I would that my love
- No. 2, Greeting
- Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
- Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
- Wenn dein M?tterlein tritt zur T?r herein
- Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen!
- In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus
Music reviews of Kathleen Ferrier - Mahler ~ Kindertotenlieder & Gluck ~ Greene ~ Handel ~ Mendelssohn ~ Purcell / Baillie, Moore, B. Walter
Music Review: Choosing between Ferrier's two Kindertotenlieders
Rating: 5 Stars
This review duplicates the one written for Ferrier's Decca recording of Kindertotenlieder with the Concertgebouw in concert:
Kathleen Ferrier left so few commercial recordings that despite its scratchy, AM-radio sound, Decca was fully justified in releasing this inspired Kindertotenlieder from the Holland Festival. Sonically it can't compare with her studio recording, now refurbished on EMI, with the Vienna Phil. under her mentor Bruno Walter. But there are significant differences that can only be appreciated by hearing both versions.
The two orchestras are placed backward in both recordings, with considerable loss of inner detail. The focus is on Ferrier, who sounds darker and more sombr under Walter. Her voice is brighter and her mood less tragic for Klemperer. Contray to his reputation for slowness, Klemperer is also considerably faster in the second and fourth songs. It's no surprise, then, that Ferrier/Walter are more inward and searching.
Another reviewer here complains about the surface iss and scratches that weren't removed in Decca's remastering, but given that this was an early venture into historical recordings for them, the fact that they didn't rob Ferrier's voice of high frequencies is one advantage over the EMI engineering, where both orchestra and singer sound a bit muffled.
In the end, we are fortunate to possess both recordings, and one can hope that another label will redo the sound now that remastering technology has improved by leaps and bounds.
Description of Kathleen Ferrier - Mahler ~ Kindertotenlieder & Gluck ~ Greene ~ Handel ~ Mendelssohn ~ Purcell / Baillie, Moore, B. Walter
Even before her tragic death at 41 (in 1953), Kathleen Ferrier became a legend for her incomparable voice, her simplicity and sincerity of expression, and her indomitable courage. This compilation of recordings originally made in the 1940s includes four arias from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice recorded live in Holland, which show why Euridice was one of her signature roles. Two beautifully sung Handel arias, two sacred songs by Maurice Greene, and delightful duets by Purcell and Mendelssohn (sung in English with another beloved English singer, Isobel Baillie) are greatly enhanced by the inimitable pianist Gerald Moore. But the core of this recording is the Mahler cycle. Here, Ferrier's voice takes on a new warmth and intensity; her deeply inward, direct expressiveness gives the bereaved parent's grief and anguish a devastating impact. Her reading of the last song could be a bit more spooky, but the end is heartbreaking in its submissive resignation. The Vienna Philharmonic and Bruno Walter are in their native element. --Edith EislerGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( G ) > Gluck, Christoph W.
- ( M ) > Mahler, Gustav
- Mendelssohn, Felix
- ( P ) > Purcell, Henry
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( V ) > Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Forms & Genres > Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music > Incidental Music
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > Composers > Purcell, Henry
- Vocal & Song
- General
- Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Symphonies
- Vocal & Song
- General
- Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
- Symphonies > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750)
- Classical (c.1770-1830)
- Languages > German
- Italian
- Vocal Non-Opera > Odes
- Gluck, Christoph W. - Works by Gluck
- Mendelssohn, Felix - Works by Mendelssohn
- Classical - Historical Periods - Baroque (c.1600-1750) - Composers - Purcell, Henry - General
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