Kathleen Ferrier Remembered

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SOMM Recordings
Release Date
June 23, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHUBERT BRAHMS WOLF MAHLER
    • PERFORMER
      Ferrier, Walter, Moore, Stone
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 23, 2017
    • UPC
      748871226425
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 264
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Der Musensohn, Op. 92, No. 1, D. 764

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    2. Wandrers Nachtlied II, Op. 96, No. 3, D. 768

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    3. No. 3. Sonntag

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    4. No. 1. Botschaft

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    5. 6 Lieder, Op. 97: No. 1. Nachtigall

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    6. Morike Lieder: No. 15. Auf einer Wanderung

      Composer: Hugo Wolf

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    7. Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Urlicht

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    8. Lachen und Weinen, Op. 59, No. 4, D. 777

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Bruno Walter

    9. Suleika II (Ach um deine feuchten Schwingen), Op. 31, D. 717

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Bruno Walter

    10. 4 Lieder, Op. 96: No. 2. Wir wandelten, wir zwei zusammen

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Bruno Walter

    11. 5 Lieder, Op. 47: No. 1. Botschaft

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Bruno Walter

    12. 8 Lieder und Gesange, Op. 59: No. 2. Auf dem See

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    13. 4 Lieder, Op. 96: No. 3. Es schauen die Blumen

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    14. 7 Lieder, Op. 95: No. 4. Der Jager

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    15. 15 Romanzen aus Die Schöne Magelone, Op. 33: No. 9. Ruhe, Süssliebchen

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    16. Suleika I (Was bedeutet die Bewegung), Op. 14, No. 1, D. 720

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    17. Rosamunde, D. 797: Romance, Der vollmond strahlt (The Full Moon Shines)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    18. Rastlose Liebe, Op. 5, No. 1, D. 138

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    19. Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 6. Wasserflut

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    20. Die junge Nonne, Op. 43, No. 1, D. 828

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    21. La Belle Dame sans merci

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    22. No. 1. Psalm 6, "O Lord, rebuke me not"

      Composer: Edmund Rubbra

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    23. No. 2. Psalm 23, "The Lord is my shepherd"

      Composer: Edmund Rubbra

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    24. No. 3. Psalm 150, "Praise ye the Lord"

      Composer: Edmund Rubbra

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    25. The Song of Songs

      Composer: Maurice Jacobson

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Frederick Stone

    26. Love is a bable, Op. 152, No. 3

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Kathleen Ferrier, Gerald Moore


Kathleen's Ferrier's legacy of recordings has been well-known and widely-admired for over 60 years. So it seems amazing that, after so long, a treasury of previously unpublished and little-circulated BBC broadcasts is now being released. In typical fashion, SOMM leads the way in remembering great composers and artists of the past and Kathleen Ferrier is one of hte most divinely gifted among them. These recordings are from two sources. Several are from BBC's own archives and include Ferrier's first broadcast of Rubbra's Three Psalms, Op. 61, of which she was the dedicatee, five Schubert Lieder, four by Brahms and Parry's Love is a bable, recorded at the 1948 Edinburgh Festival, which makes a delightful conclusion to the album. The other source is the remarkable collection of Kenneth Leech, a composer and engineer who, from the 1930s to the 1950s, recorded numerous broadcasts, mainly using Bakelite and metal discs - the usual way for an enthusiast to preserve radio programmes at that time. This collection is stored at the National Sound Archive in the British Library.

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REVIEW:

Listening to these newly retrieved from BBC broadcasts and never released before, I am struck over again by the great contralto’s overriding characteristic – her natural, unfettered generosity. In song after song, she gives all of herself, nothing held back. She simply soars.

New to her discography on this release are six English tracks – three Psalms that Edmund Rubbra wrote for her in 1946, and others by Stanford, Parry, and the lesser-known Maurice Jacobsen, a mentor of hers. The songs belong to an almost forgotten era of English simplicity and Ferrier delivers them in the most idiomatic fashion, without advocacy or ornament.

I would not want to be without this record of an immortal artist, and nor will you once you have heard it.

– Open Letters Monthly (Norman Lebrecht)