In Memoriam Maureen Forrester

The distinguished Heinz Rehfuss shares Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the great contralto Maureen Forrester, an exceptional performer of this repertoire. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2015

Release Date: 2nd Oct 2015
Catalogue No: PRD250313
Label: Praga
Series: Digitals

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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1901 version)

Maureen Forrester (contralto) & Heinz Rehfuss (bass)
RIAS-Sinfonie Orchester, Berlin & Orchestra of the Vienna Festival
Ferenc Fricsay & Felix Prohaska

Mahler: Rückert-Lieder

Maureen Forrester (contralto) & Heinz Rehfuss (bass)
RIAS-Sinfonie Orchester, Berlin & Orchestra of the Vienna Festival
Ferenc Fricsay & Felix Prohaska

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The renowned Canadian singer Maureen Forrester, was the owner of one of the most distinctive contralto voices of her generation. Chosen by Bruno Walter, a protege of Gustav Mahler, for the contralto role in the composer's 'Resurrection' Symphony at Carnegie Hall in 1957, she followed up that New York Philharmonic performance with many others, under a wide range of leading conductors. Regarded by Walter and others as the successor to Kathleen Ferrier, she excelled in Mahler, but was also known for her roles in opera and oratorio, as well as in Broadway musicals. Often with the Swiss bass-baritone Heinz Rehfuss, she did justice to the ambivalence of the texts, with impeccable German diction, which are supplied here in German.

This disc provides a rewarding account of 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn', in excellent sound for 1963, recorded in the Grosse Saal, Vienna. The five Rückert Lieder date from Berlin in 1956.

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Christmas 2015

The distinguished Heinz Rehfuss shares Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the great contralto Maureen Forrester, an exceptional performer of this repertoire.

In Memoriam Maureen Forrester

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