Songs My Father Taught Me
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Composer: Lennox BerkeleyComposer: Johannes Brahms
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Composer: Kathleen Ferrier
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Antonio Lotti
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Composer: Franz Schubert
Composer: Traditional
Conductor: Arnold Goldsborough
Conductor: Reginald Goodall
Performer: Frederick Stone
Performer: Kathleen Ferrier
Performer: Owen Brannigan
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-06-06
Music Label: Gala
Music reviews of Songs My Father Taught Me
Music Review: Admirable collection
Rating: 5 Stars
Like Claudia Muzio and other deceased singers invested with cult status, Kathleen Ferrier has been censured on grounds of faulty technique and (less fairly) of "dated" interpretations of music now performed with greater historical fidelity. Some of these criticisms of Ferrier openly target the reverence accorded her in Britain, where admiration for her art and personality can devolve into hagiography. Fortunately, two antidotes for such distortions are ready to hand: Christopher Fifield's artfully crafted presentation of her "Letters and Diaries" (2003), and this CD, which begins with Ferrier at the fag end of a New York dinner party (thrown by ... Andre Mertens?), presenting a rollicking parody of her own vocalizing - and of herself. Here is a carnival mirror edition of the "public" Ferrier, represented on this CD by a self-effacing yet regally articulated interview in Montreal. Reminiscences of distinguished colleagues are also provided, along with vocal recordings that suggest the range and depth of her work. And "depth" is the word, quite apart from her vocal register. The throaty laugh in the ludic tape that opens this collection is echoed in the somber resonance of her finest recordings; for Ferrier, like Muzio, can voice the core of disillusionment - less with existence than with hopes proved false, while she heralds the triumph of love retrieved from unworthy aims.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Brahms, Johannes
- Britten, Sir Benjamin
- ( G ) > Gluck, Christoph W.
- ( M ) > Monteverdi, Claudio
- ( S ) > Schubert, Franz
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( B ) > Brannigan, Owen
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > Vocal & Song
- General
- Classical (c.1770-1830) > Vocal & Song
- General
- Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
- Romantic (c.1820-1910) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- Vocal & Song
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Divas > Ferrier, Kathleen
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750)
- Classical (c.1770-1830)
- Romantic (c.1820-1910)
- Languages > English
- German
- Italian
- Oratorios
- Vocal Non-Opera > Oratorios
- Brahms, Johannes - Works by Brahms
- Britten, Sir Benjamin - Works by Britten
- Gluck, Christoph W. - Works by Gluck
- Monteverdi, Claudio - Works by Monteverdi
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