Mahler: Kindertotenlieder / Gluck / Greene / Handel / Mendelssohn / Purcell (Great Recordings of the Century)

Kathleen Ferrier - Mahler: Kindertotenlieder / Gluck / Greene / Handel / Mendelssohn / Purcell (Great Recordings of the Century)

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder / Gluck / Greene / Handel / Mendelssohn / Purcell (Great Recordings of the Century)
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Artist: Kathleen Ferrier
Composer: Henry Purcell
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer: Maurice Greene
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Composer: Gustav Mahler
Conductor: Bruno Walter
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: Salzburg Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: Netherlands Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: EMI Classics / Angel Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Sound the trumpet, beat the drum (Welcome Ode for James II), for 2 altos, tenors, basses, chorus, strings & continuo, Z. 335
  2. The Indian Queen, semi-opera, Z. 630: Let Us Wander Not Unseen
  3. Shepherd, leave decoying (from 'King Arthur'), symphony & duet for 2 sopranos, Z. 628/16
  4. Ottone, re di Germania, opera, HWV 15: Spring is coming
  5. Ottone, re di Germania, opera, HWV 15: Come to me, soothing sleep
  6. Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian version), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 30: Chiamo il mio ben cos�¬ (Act 1)
  7. Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian version), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 30: Deh! placatevi con me (Act 2)
  8. Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian version), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 30: Che puro cie! (Act 2)
  9. Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian version), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 30: Che feci mai?...Che farò senza Eurdice? (Act 3)
  10. O Praise the Lord
  11. O God of My Righteousness ('I will lay me down in peace'), anthem for 2 or 4 voices & continuo in F major
  12. Songs (6) for 2 voices & piano, Op. 63: No. 1, I would that my love
  13. Songs (6) for 2 voices & piano, Op. 63: No. 2, Greeting
  14. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
  15. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
  16. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): Wenn dein M�¼tterlein tritt zur T�¼r herein
  17. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen!
  18. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus

Music reviews of Mahler: Kindertotenlieder / Gluck / Greene / Handel / Mendelssohn / Purcell (Great Recordings of the Century)

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.
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