The Very Best Of Kathleen Ferrier

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So we can hear her sing Lieder by Schubert and Brahms and songs by Stanford and Jacobson which have never before been issued.

Finest of all, I think, are the Vier ernste Gesänge, the voice at its most sumptuous and utterly right for the songs, the style having noble breadth and authority as well as keeping compassionate personal contact. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Testament releases previously unpublished and deleted recordings from their archives, using their original master tapes and 78rpm metal parts for CD remastering.

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Kathleen Ferrier in Celebration of Bach ( Ariadne 5004) was acclaimed by Gramophone as “an important addition to Ferrier’s discography… one of the most beautiful things she ever committed to disc”. Singer, as Ferrier authority Paul Campion notes in his extensive, detailed and informative booklet notes.

Item as described and will work for my game, arrived well packaged and protected and in the new condition advertised. You must take reasonable care to ensure that an item is repackaged so that it arrives back in the same condition it was despatched. Seventy years on the sharply focused playing and choral singing still impress… [Ferrier] comes into her own, though, in No 11, where she’s truly magnificent: her central aria, imploring the risen Christ to ‘tarry yet’ on earth, remains one of the most beautiful things she ever committed to disc. If you are looking for a very specific version/pressing/variant please check with us first and we can send pictures. In the Brahms and Mahler everything benefits from the loveliness of voice and sincerity of approach.

The existence of this recording was not known until a vinyl disc was offered for sale on an internet auction site in 2018. Her honours and awards included a CBE and Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society; the Kathleen Ferrier Award (which first took place in 1956, and grew out of the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship Fund, set up to support young singers) remains one of the most prestigious annual singing-competitions in the classical world.

So it seems amazing that, after so long, a treasury of previously unpublished and little-circulated BBC broadcasts is now being released.