Title:
Kathleen Ferrier : the complete Decca recordings.
Author:
Ferrier, Kathleen, 1912-1953.
Publication Information:
London, England : Decca, ℗2012.
Call Number:
B FERR CDR F89
Edition:
Centenary ed.
Physical Description:
14 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc ((58 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.).
General Note:
Decca: 478 3589 (set); 478 3594--478 3607 (compact discs); 074 3472 (videodisc).
DVD includes the film biography, An ordinary diva, based on Ferrier's diary and using all surviving footage of Ferrier.
Title from container.
Compact discs accompanied by DVD.
Program and biographical notes in English with French and German translations and texts in English, French, German, Italian, and Latin, the French, German, Italian, and Latin texts with English translations (169 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
CD 1. Orfeo ed Euridice : abridged / Christoph Willibald Gluck.
CD 12. Symphony no. 2 in C minor : Resurrection / Gustav Mahler.
DVD. Kathleen Ferrier : an ordinary diva.
Contents:
CD 2. St. Matthew Passion : BWV 244 : arias and choruses. Come, ye daughters ; My Master and my Lord -- Grief for sin ; Behold, my Saviour now is taken ; Ah! now is my Saviour gone ; Have mercy, Lord, on me -- Lamb of God, I fall before Thee ; O gracious God! -- If my tears be unavailing ; O sacred head surrounded ; Ah, Golgotha! -- See ye! See the Saviour's outstretched hands ; Be near me, Lord, when dying ; And now the Lord to rest is laid -- In tears of grief / Johann Sebastian Bach.
CD 3. Orfeo ed Euridice. What is life? / Gluck -- Rodelinda. Art thou troubled? / Handel -- St. Matthew Passion. Have mercy, Lord, on me / Bach -- Serse. Ombra mai fu / Handel -- Elijah. Woe unto them ; O rest in the Lord / Mendelssohn -- Stabat Mater / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; orch. Scott.
CD 4. Frauenliebe und -leben : op. 42 ; Volksliedchen : op. 51, no. 2 ; Widmung : op. 25, no. 1 / Robert Schumann -- Sapphische Ode : op. 94, no. 4 ; Botschaft : op. 47, no. 1 / Johannes Brahms -- Gretchen am Spinnrade : D118 ; Die junge Nonne : D828 ; An die Musik : D547 ; Der Musensohn : D764 ; Ganymed : D544 ; Du liebst mich nicht : D756 ; Lachen und Weinen : D777 / Franz Schubert -- Silent night, holy night -- O come, all ye faithful.
CD 5. Four serious songs : op. 121 / Johannes Brahms ; orch. Sargent -- Poème de l'amour et de la mer : op. 19 / Ernest Chausson -- Discovery : op. 13 / Howard Ferguson -- Three songs, op. 5 / William Wordsworth -- Three psalms, op. 61 / Edmund Rubbra.
CD 6. The fairy lough ; A soft day / Stanford -- Love is a bable / Parry -- Silent noon / Vaughan Williams -- Go not, happy day / Bridge -- Sleep ; Pretty ring-time / Warlock -- O Waly, Waly ; Come you not from Newcastle? / arr. Britten -- Kitty, my love / arr. Hughes -- Mad Bess of Bedlam ; The fairy queen. Hark! the echoing air / Purcell -- Atalanta. Like as the love-lorn turtle ; Admeto. How changed the vision / Handel -- 4 Mörike-Lieder / Wolf -- Altar / Jensen -- Vergiss mein nicht ; Ach, dass nicht die letzte Stunde / J.S. Bach -- Bist du bei mir / attrib. J.S. Bach.
CD 7. Mass in B minor, BWV 232. Qui sedes ; St. Matthew Passion : BWV 244. Grief for sin ; St. John Passion : BWV 245. All is fulfilled ; Mass in B minor, BWV 232. Agnus Dei / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Samson. Return, O God of hosts! ; Messiah. O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion ; Judas Maccabaeus. Father of Heaven ; Messiah. He was despised / George Friedrich Handel.
CD 8. Ma bonny lad ; The keel row ; Blow the wind southerly / arr. Whittaker -- I have a bonnet trimmed with blue / arr. Hughes -- My boy Willie / arr. Sharp -- I know where I'm goin' / arr. Hughes -- The fidgety bairn / arr. Robertson -- I will walk with my love / arr. Hughes -- Ca' the yowes / arr. Jacobson -- O Waly, Waly / arr. Britten -- Willow, willow / arr. Warlock -- The stuttering lovers / arr. Hughes -- Now sleeps the crimson petal ; The fair house of joy ; To daisies ; Over the mountains / Quilter -- Have you seen but a whyte lillie grow? / arr. Grew -- Ye banks and braes ; Drink to me only / arr. Quilter -- Down by the salley gardens ; The lover's curse / arr. Hughes.
CD 9. What the Edinburgh Festival has meant to me : talk by Kathleen Ferrier -- Die junge Nonne : D828 ; Rosamunde. Romance, D797, no. 3b ; Du liebst mich nicht : D756 ; Der Tod und das Mädchen : D531 ; Suleika I : D720 ; Du bist die Ruh : D776 / Franz Schubert -- Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer : op. 105, no. 2 ; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht : op. 96, no. 1 ; Botschaft : op. 47, no. 1 ; Von ewiger Liebe : op. 43, no. 1 / Johannes Brahms -- Frauenliebe und -leben : op. 42 / Robert Schumann.
CD 10. Alto rhapsody, op. 53 ; Gestillte Sehnsucht : op. 91, no. 1 ; Geistliches Wiegenlied : op. 91, no. 2 ; Vier ernste Gesänge : op. 121 / Johannes Brahms -- Kindertotenlieder / Gustav Mahler.
CD 11. Liebeslieder-Walzer : op. 52, nos. 1-18 (complete) ; Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer : op. 65, no. 15 / Johannes Brahms -- Spring symphony : op. 44 / Benjamin Britten.
CD 13. Das Lied von der Erde = The song of the Earth = Le chant de la terre ; 3 Rückert-Lieder / Gustav Mahler.
CD 14. Cantata BWV 11 : Praise our God who reigns in Heaven = Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen : Ascension oratorio ; Cantata BWV 67 : Hold in affection Jesus Christ = Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ / Johann Sebastian Bach.
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