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Kathleen Ferrier

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Kathleen Ferrier (1912–1953) started singing professionally late; she was thirty when she did her first performance as a soloist (in Händel’s ‘Messiah’). She only performed in two operas, Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ (1946) and Gluck’s ‘Orfeo ed Eudridice’ (1947). Her rising star as a highly characteristic alto was cut short when she died at only 41; from breast cancer. Luckily, she managed to do many recordings in her too brief career

Top songs

  1. Blow The Wind Southerly
  2. Lucretia! Lucretia! O Never Again Must We Two Dare To Part (The Rape Of Lucretia: Britten)
  3. The Keel Row
  4. Ma Bonny Lad
  5. An Die Musik
  6. Ye Banks and Braes
  7. Kitty my love
  8. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
  9. The Stuttering Lovers
  10. Um Mitternacht
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  1. Down By The Salley Gardens
  2. Der Musensohn
  3. Drink To Me Only
  4. I Have a Bonnet Trimmed With Blue
  5. What Is Life to Me Without Thee?
  6. Ombra Mai Fu
  7. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
  8. Down by the Sally Gardens
  9. Orfeo ed Euridice (Sung in English): Orfeo ed Euridice, Act III: Aria: What is life to me without thee (Che faro senza Euridice?)
  10. I Will Walk With My Love
  11. Come You Not from Newcastle
  12. What Is Life
  13. The Fidgety Bairn
  14. What Is Life?
  15. Silent noon
  16. Ca' the Yowes
  17. My Boy Willie
  18. O Waly, Waly
  19. Willow, Willow
  20. I Know Where I'm Going
  21. Anonymous: Blow The Wind Southerly
  22. St. Matthew Passion - "Erbame Dich, mein Gott"
  23. Sapphische Ode
  24. Ombra mai fu (from Xerxes)
  25. Blow the Wind Southerly (Northumbrian Folk Song)
  26. Gretchen Am Spinnrade
  27. O Rest in the Lord
  28. Botschaft
  29. Go Not Happy Day
  30. Art Thou Troubled?
  31. Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67 (Sung in English): Aria: Christ Jesus now is risen (Tenor)
  32. Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67 (Sung in English): Chorale: Hold in affection Jesus Christ (Chorus)
  33. Come you not from Newcastle?
  34. The Lover's Curse
  35. Over The Mountains
  36. I Know Where I'm Goin'
  37. Go not, happy day
  38. Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67 (Sung in English): Recitative: Now, Jesus (Alto)
  39. Mahler: Rückert-Lieder - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
  40. Schubert: Ganymed, D. 544 (Op.19/3)
  41. St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Sung in English): Part I: Chorus: Come ye daughters (Chorus)
  42. Die Junge Nonne
  43. Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67 (Sung in English): Chorale: Come all (Chorus)
  44. Woe Unto Them
  45. What is Life? ('Che faro') (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
  46. The Fair house Of Joy
  47. Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67 (Sung in English): Chorale: Lord Christ (Chorus)
  48. Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67 (Sung in English): Recitative: And still, O Lord (Alto)
  49. Che Puro Ciel
  50. A soft day
  51. Schumann - Ich Kanns Nicht Fassen Nicht Glauben
  52. Er, Der Herrlichste Von Allen
  53. Drink to me only with thine eyes
  54. St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Sung in English): Part I: Chorus: O blessed Jesu (Chorus)
  55. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Eurydice) - "What is life?"
  56. Halt im Gedachtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67 (Sung in English): Aria: Peace be unto you (Bass, Chorus)
  57. He Was Despised
  58. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
  59. Schumann - Seit Ich Ihn Gesehen
  60. Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40: Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I: Aria: Ombra mai fu
  61. St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Sung in English): St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Part II: Aria: Have mercy, Lord, on me
  62. Have Mercy, Lord, On Me
  63. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder 2. Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
  64. To Daisies
  65. Art Thou Troubled
  66. Have Mercy, Lord On Me
  67. Schumann - Er Der Herrlichste Von Allen
  68. Silent Night, Holy Night
  69. St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Sung in English): Part I: Aria: Grief for sin (Contralto)
  70. Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
  71. Rodelinda, HWV 19 (Sung in English): Rodelinda, HWV 19, Act I: Aria: Art thou troubled? (Dove sei?)
  72. What Is Life - Orfeo Ed Euridice
  73. Have You Seen But a Whyte Lillie Grow?
  74. Sleep
  75. St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Sung in English): Part I: Aria: Break in grief (Soprano)
  76. Elijah, Op. 70, MWV A25: Part II: Aria: O rest in the Lord
  77. Agnus Dei
  78. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder 3. Wenn dein Mütterlein
  79. Elijah, Op. 70, MWV A25: Part I: Arioso: Woe unto them who forsake him!
  80. Spring Is Coming (Ottone: Handel)
  81. Hark! the echoing air
  82. What Is Life? (Che Faro) (Orfeo Ed Euridice: Gluck)
  83. Have Mercy, Lord ('Erbame dich') (from St. Matthew Passion)
  84. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder 4. Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
  85. Seit Ich Ihn Gesehen
  86. Mass In B Minor, BWV 232 "Qui Sedes"
  87. 1. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde
  88. St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Sung in English): Part I: Aria: Jesus, Saviour (Soprano)
  89. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder 5. In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus
  90. Ich atmet' einen linden Duft

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