
Kathleen Ferrier sings Brahms, Mahler & Gluck
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Label: Praga Digitals
Cat No: DSD350109
Format: SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd June 2014
Contents
Works
Alto Rhapsody, op.53Gesange (2), op.91
Vier ernste Gesange, op.121
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
Artists
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)Phyllis Spur (piano)
Max Gilbert (alto)
John Newmark (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Wiener Philharmoniker
Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera
Conductors
Clemens KrausCharles Bruck
Bruno Walter
Works
Alto Rhapsody, op.53Gesange (2), op.91
Vier ernste Gesange, op.121
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
Artists
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)Phyllis Spur (piano)
Max Gilbert (alto)
John Newmark (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Wiener Philharmoniker
Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera
Conductors
Clemens KrausCharles Bruck
Bruno Walter
About
To be Orpheus, and die: such was the fate of Kathleen Ferrier, the English contralto, who died aged only 41, just over 50 years ago. Yet in only a few days, recording with Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic, she did enough to assure her immortality.
In 1946, Kathleen Ferrier made her stage debut in the Glyndebourne Festival (Britten's 'The Rape of Lucretia', premiere). A year later she made her first appearance as Orfeo in Gluck's 'Orfeo ed Euridice'. As her reputation grew, Ferrier formed close working relationships with major musical figures, including Britten, Sir John Barbirolli, the pianist Gerald Moore and, of course, Bruno Walter, with whom she explored Mahler in particular.
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