Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Gerald Moore (piano), Isobel Baillie (soprano)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Netherlands Opera, Wiener Philharmoniker, Charles Bruck, Bruno Walter
An outstandingly beautiful performance … Kathleen Ferrier, under Bruno Walter’s inspired direction, sings these songs as, one feels, Mahler must have imagined them. — More…
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Purcell: Sound the trumpet ('Birthday Ode for Queen Mary')
- Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
- Recorded: 1945-09-21
- Recording Venue: 21 September 1945 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road London
Purcell: Let us Wander not Unseen (based on music from The Indian Queen, Z630)
- Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
- Recorded: 1945-09-21
- Recording Venue: 21 September 1945 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Purcell: Shepperd, shepherd, leave decoying ('King Arthur' - Dryden)
- Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
- Recorded: 1945-09-21
- Recording Venue: 21 September 1945 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Handel: Spring is coming ('Ottone' - Haym)
- Gerald Moore (piano), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
- Recorded: 1945-04-20
- Recording Venue: 20 April 1945 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Handel: Come to me, soothing sleep ('Ottone' - Haym)
- Gerald Moore (piano), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
- Recorded: 1945-04-20
- Recording Venue: 20 April 1945 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (1998 Remaster)
- Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Netherlands Opera Orchestra (second vocals), Netherlands Opera Chorus (second vocals), Charles Bruck (second vocals)
- Charles Bruck
- Recorded: 1951-01-01
- Recording Venue: Municipal Theatre, Amsterdam
Chiamo il mio ben così (Act I)
Deh! placatevi con me (Act II)
Che puro ciel! (Act II)
Che feci mai?...Che farò senza Euridice? (Act III)
Greene, M: O praise the Lord
- Kathleen Ferrier (vocals), Gerald Moore (piano)
- Recorded: 1944-09-30
- Recording Venue: 30 September 1944 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Maurice Greene, Stanley Roper: I will lay me down in peace ('O God of my righteousness')
- Kathleen Ferrier (vocals), Gerald Moore (piano)
- Recorded: 1944-09-30
- Recording Venue: 30 September 1944 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road London
Mendelssohn: I would that my love, Op.63 No. 1 (Heine)
- Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
- Recorded: 1945-09-21
- Recording Venue: 21 September 1945 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Mendelssohn: Greeting, Op.63 No. 2 (Eichendorff)
- Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Isobel Baillie (soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)
- Recorded: 1945-09-21
- Recording Venue: 21 September 1945 / No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
- Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Bruno Walter
- Recorded: 1998-08-30
- Recording Venue: 4 October 1949, Kingsway Hall, London.
Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
Wenn dein Mütterlein, tritt zur Tür herein
Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen!
In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus