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Background: This double album tribute brings together a selection of Kathleen Ferrier's most celebrated arias from works by Handel and JS Bach as well as a selection of traditional songs. Ferrier worked with some of the most celebrated conductors and also re-introduced many previously neglected British songs to her audiences.

CATALOGUE NR: 4750782
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 9.19
RELEASE DATE: 15-Sep-2003

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: A Tribute to Kathleen Ferrier
TRACKS: Orfeo ed Euridice : What is life? Che puro ciel (Gluck). Rodelinda : Art thou troubled? (Handel). Serse : Ombra mai fu (Handel). An die Musik (Schubert). Der Musensohn (Schubert). Gretchen am Spinnrade (Schubert). Die junge Nonne (Schubert). Elijah : Woe unto them (Mendelssohn). Elijah : O rest in the Lord (Mendelssohn). Frauenliebe und leben : Er der Herrlichste von allen op.42 No.2 (Schumann). Geistliches Wiegenlied op.91 No.2 (Brahms). Sapphische Ode op.94 No.4 (Brahms). Botschaft op.47 No.1 (Brahms). Atalanta : Like as the love-lorn turtle (Handel). A soft day (Stanford). Go not happy day (Bridge / Tennyson). Come you not from Newcastle (trad. arr. Britten). The Keel Row (trad. arr. Whittaker). Ma bonny lad (trad. arr. Whittaker). Kitty my love (trad. arr. Hughes). Blow the wind southerly (trad. arr. Whittaker). Ye banks and braes (trad. arr. Quilter). I have a bonnet trimmed with blue (trad. arr. Hughes). Down by the Salley Gardens (trad. arr. Hughes). The stuttering lovers (trad. arr. Hughes). Drink to me only (trad. arr. Quilter). The Fairy Queen : Hark! The echoing air (Purcell). Judas Maccabaeus : Father of Heaven (Handel). Messiah : O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Handel). Messiah : He was despised (Handel). St Matthew Passion : Have mercy Lord on me (JS Bach). Mass in B minor : Agnus Dei (JS Bach). St John Passion : All is fulfilled (JS Bach). Du bist die Ruh (Schubert). Rosamunde : Romance (Schubert).
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra and Boyd Neel Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Malcolm Sargent and Boyd Neel
ARTISTS: Kathleen Ferrier   Phyllis Spurr   Frederick Stone   Bruno Walter

- Nov-2003 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide Rosette star

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