Сейчас редко кто так поет, ровнейший во всех регистрах звук, великолепное исполнение, сплошное восхищение от каждой ноты, чем больше её слушаешь, тем больше утверждаешься в мысли, - такого голоса, такого великолепия, как КЕТЛИН ФЕРЬЕР никогда не было и вряд ли появится в наш самодовольный век, голос редчайшей красоты.
A voice that halts you in your tracks and transports you to another place of such beauty and peace. My late mother introduced me to Kathleen Ferrier as a child in London and I now often listen to her outstanding interpretations from South Africa. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever.'
I was lucky enough to hear Kathleen Ferrier three times live in the 1950s. This left an indelible mark on my soul. There has not been another voice like this since and probably never will be. It pours forth like double whipped cream! her interpretation, drama and delivery are perfect [never mind the orchestra]. Yes Dame Janet Baker had a beautiful voice [I heard her too fortunately] but perhaps the closes to Ferrier for perfection was the Hungarian contralto, Julia Hamari. Compare the two. Kathleen's voice is instantly recognisable. Each time I hear it I get shivers down my spine.
+Patrick Matthiesen Oh! lucky you. Given the chance to travel back and experience one singer live she would be the one. There are many contenders and I do not even truly like much of her material. However that incredible voice grabbed me as a very young child and has never lost it's grip. Pure magic
Listening to Kathleen Ferrier soothes my soul. Listening to her sing this aria is akin to a religious experience for me. What a beautiful voice, what expressiveness, what passion, what musicianship. How I wish she'd had a longer time among us. May she rest in peace.
The very first time I heard "Che faro senza Euridice" was sung by Kathleen Ferrier (record), and I was deeply impressed by the quality/timbre of her voice. Later I grew to love Gluck's music. Though many great singers have sung this aria, somehow, I still find Ferrier touches my heart most.
This live radio broadcast of Kath in Orfeo ed Euridice LIVE ON OPERA STAGE in Amsterdam lay in the vaults of Netherlands Radio for decades gathering dust and completely lost. Mr Klaus Postuma the Producer of the original Amsterdam opera broadcast hadn't forgotten and eventually found it and immediately 'phoned Kath's sister Winifred in London with the good news. Mr Postuma flew to London and he and Winifred listened to the tapes. Winifred was astounded,describing the recording as if Kath was there on stage in front of her. No other recording exists of Kath singing the COMPLETE opera live. This is a treasure for all Ferrier admirers and beyond. As good as it gets---100%. Mr Postuma's perseverence has given us one of Kath's finest recordings.
I'd read that the recording wasn't released bc of the poor performance of the chorus & other soloists. The chorus is certainly not up to snuff & the soprano singing Amor is really amateurish. I bought the recording many years ago & still love it, despite its shortcomings, bc of the magnificent Kathleen Ferrier.
A miracle ! Kathleen Ferrier touches the heart and soul with musicality, intelligence, sensibility and her sublime among sublimes voices. Tensions, layers of infinite subtleties with no mannerism, she is UNIQUE.Thank you for posting this live representation !
La version de référence... avec Kathleen Ferrier, la divine avec sa voix si troublante par sa profondeur, tant humaine et en même temps, si proche... des anges !
This shows what a dramatic singer - within a classical style - that Kathleen Ferrier had become. To fine that tone down to a thread and then expand it maintaining all quality. She is so deeply in character and moving. I agree that a couple of the vowels might not please all Italian listeners, but that is a small price to pay for such a remarkable piece of singing and theatre. If anything it reflects the fact that for much of her career she sang in English , especially during WW2. She had left school by the age of 14 with no language study apart from a smattering of French. She was exceptionally intelligent and musical, but as was customary at the time any money the family had was to be directing towards educating her brother - the son of the family. When she started to find her voice she had to work on style , interpretation and languages. Within 12 years she was at the top of her profession. If she fell short on a couple of vowels when singing Italian here so what! Her achievement was very great and I believe she was at the height of her powers when she died.
Tenortalker I've always thought it was a great pity she never had thee opportunity to sing this in Milan, Venice or Naples! The audience would have forgiven her vowels and taken her to their hearts.
The best I have EVER heard and I have heard most Contralto's. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and i cannot remember that happening before, with the possible exception of Caruso and Callas in her prime.
Que maravilla escuchar esta aria por una verdadera contralto y una gran cantante. Dame Janet lo cantaba muy bien pero no llegaba a la excelencia de la Ferrier. Realmente es algo que ya no existe, ni creo que vuelva a existir... queda en nuestros oídos y en nuestro corazón
È vero, era semplicemente unica, quel suo timbro e il suo particolare vibrato fa davvero piangere...Un angelo che è volato via troppo presto. Cara, cara Ferrier
Sono scoppiata in lacrime dopo la prima Che farò. Sono senza parole e mi sto chiedendo come mai non ho mai sentito questa versione di Che Farò Senza Euridice prima.
i cried at the sheer beuuty of her voice and her aristry when i first hear this she died too early wihtout enough recording s to properly reflect what the world lost
"Der Tag ist schoen" -- that phrase alone in the Farrier Kindertotenlieder summons up the words in Keats's "Ode to Melancholy: "dwells in beauty, beauty that must die".
Für mich die beste Interpretation dieser Arie. Wunderbare Stimme, Gänsehaut ❤ Nan Merimman war auch wunderbar,Emmi Leisner auch,dennoch Kathleen ist hier wohl überreicht
Это контральто я слушала ещё на виниловой пластинке, когда не было интернета, и я училась в муз. колледже. Первый низкий женский голос, из зарубежных певиц, с которым я тогда познакомилась. Голос поразил своей мягкостью, там ещё звучали английские песни. Спасибо, за приятные воспоминания.
5:06 legend, legend, legend .............. Ferrier pushing the art of singing to its upper limits but , of course, this is no more singing, even no more music, this is part of other worlds
So WHY do I still prefer the screeching of Callas and the plodding perfection of Baker? (Though Ferrier is so much more measured than, say, Damrau) Hmmmm...I still love all three, Callas, Ferrier and Baker and am so LUCKY to be able to hear all three AND compare them!!!!
+Guy Osborn There are a lot more high overtones in the voices of Baker and Callas, so you may be just hooked on that bright sound. It's like a violin or a viola; you can't get both in one instrument.
5:06 is here some possible hope in humanity, or the certitude of pain and despair ? Ferrier at the very end of the universe. Going further doensn't exist.
Listening to Kathleen and Callas they are two different interpreations. I prefer Kathleen, get goose gumps. And of course Dame Jane Baker. Sutherland technically great but difficult to get emotionally involved. I am an Italian speaker and vowels are not perfect, but a small price to pay.
Well, the recitativo part was dull (but most singers cannot handle the recitativi) but the aria was great in insight and expression with some weird changes of intensity. The tempo chosen by the conductor lacked in urgency so that Kathleen Ferrier could not give the aria the whole dramatic intensity she certainly intended to give.....But as a whole it is a wonderful performance....
+nofactzone I suspect that some of the leaden sound of the orchestra is the recording technology of the day, especially far from the microphone, as orchestral players are. We are lucky to have anything of her from 65 years ago.
Tá an ceol seo go h-álainn ar fad. Is fearr liom í ag amhránaíocht an amrán seo,tá mo chroí eirí in áirde tar éis í a cloisint. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.
Sublime, spirituale e grande voce di vero contralto. La mia preferita!
Сейчас редко кто так поет, ровнейший во всех регистрах звук, великолепное исполнение, сплошное восхищение от каждой ноты, чем больше её слушаешь, тем больше утверждаешься в мысли, - такого голоса, такого великолепия, как КЕТЛИН ФЕРЬЕР никогда не было и вряд ли появится в наш самодовольный век, голос редчайшей красоты.
A voice that halts you in your tracks and transports you to another place of such beauty and peace. My late mother introduced me to Kathleen Ferrier as a child in London and I now often listen to her outstanding interpretations from South Africa. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever.'
One of the most beautiful voices of the last century.
One of? The! Any Century.
5:33 fantastic conductor ! Fantastic orchestra ! Repeating exactly the rhythm, the power AND the dramatic intonations of Ferrier !
No question, this is one of the very finest interpretations of this aria I have ever listened to and the aria is my very favorite.
+Richard Hensley Ferrier has been sacred to me since I first encountered her in the early fifties. Sheerist magic.
Für mich die beste Interpretation dieser Arie. Es gab auch andere sehr gute,aber diese ist's!
I was lucky enough to hear Kathleen Ferrier three times live in the 1950s. This left an indelible mark on my soul. There has not been another voice like this since and probably never will be. It pours forth like double whipped cream! her interpretation, drama and delivery are perfect [never mind the orchestra]. Yes Dame Janet Baker had a beautiful voice [I heard her too fortunately] but perhaps the closes to Ferrier for perfection was the Hungarian contralto, Julia Hamari. Compare the two. Kathleen's voice is instantly recognisable. Each time I hear it I get shivers down my spine.
+Patrick Matthiesen Oh! lucky you. Given the chance to travel back and experience one singer live she would be the one. There are many contenders and I do not even truly like much of her material. However that incredible voice grabbed me as a very young child and has never lost it's grip. Pure magic
hobo1975 again those stupid comparisons. Showing off?
"god" was kind and gracious to you, cruel to Kathleen and brutal to the rest of the world for letting her go so precociously.
Listening to Kathleen Ferrier soothes my soul. Listening to her sing this aria is akin to a religious experience for me. What a beautiful voice, what expressiveness, what passion, what musicianship. How I wish she'd had a longer time among us. May she rest in peace.
She is spiritual, solemn, there is nobody like her.
Divine et pure ❤ cela me fait des frissons … Kathleen Ferrier une grande voix merveilleuse Divine Cristalline 🙏✨✨✨
The very first time I heard "Che faro senza Euridice" was sung by Kathleen Ferrier (record), and I was deeply impressed by the quality/timbre of her voice. Later I grew to love Gluck's music. Though many great singers have sung this aria, somehow, I still find Ferrier touches my heart most.
Absolute perfection!!
R.I.P., beautiful diva!!
No matter how I have searched no one comes close to this interpretation. Jewel for the ages.
Jess Dandy comes really close to this, well worth a listen.
Most beautiful, deeply inspiring Contralto I've ever heard. Right to the heart and soul of the music. Sublimely so. Thank you for the upload.
Listening to Kathleen always moves me to tears.
Unvergessen und unglaublich schön! Diese Stimme ist wundervoll und so voller Herz!
Träne im Herzen, absolut!
Es ist ein Hochgenuss, ihr zu lauschen!
Ich schliesse micn an.
As I am a Contralto singer myself, i look to Kathleen , as a personal hero.
It's so beautiful. Brilliant voice. Touches the deepest part of the heart. Bless her 🙏💐
The glorious voice of a truly great singer! Thank you Dennis for making this recording available.
James
This live radio broadcast of Kath in Orfeo ed Euridice LIVE ON OPERA STAGE in Amsterdam lay in the vaults of Netherlands Radio for decades gathering dust and completely lost. Mr Klaus Postuma the Producer of the original Amsterdam opera broadcast hadn't forgotten and eventually found it and immediately 'phoned Kath's sister Winifred in London with the good news. Mr Postuma flew to London and he and Winifred listened to the tapes. Winifred was astounded,describing the recording as if Kath was there on stage in front of her. No other recording exists of Kath singing the COMPLETE opera live. This is a treasure for all Ferrier admirers and beyond. As good as it gets---100%. Mr Postuma's perseverence has given us one of Kath's finest recordings.
lochness11
I'd read that the recording wasn't released bc of the poor performance of the chorus & other soloists. The chorus is certainly not up to snuff & the soprano singing Amor is really amateurish. I bought the recording many years ago & still love it, despite its shortcomings, bc of the magnificent Kathleen Ferrier.
A miracle ! Kathleen Ferrier touches the heart and soul with musicality, intelligence, sensibility and her sublime among sublimes voices. Tensions, layers of infinite subtleties with no mannerism, she is UNIQUE.Thank you for posting this live representation !
My favourite singer of all time. Matchless!
Sublime! One of a kind!
Somptueux.ça,c'est une très,très,belle voix.Merci.D CLER
imagine if we were able to hear this glorious voice recorded with today's techniques.
... and a better orchestra.
Much better ANALOG techniques, not today's digital crap!
I am not interested.
I listen to music, not to sounds.
Terrific grasp of the language for an Englishwoman. One of the finer renditions I've heard. Thanks.
The most beautiful voice ever.
Just beautiful!
La meilleure de toutes les interprétations ! .quelle voix et que d'émotion ! Sublime !
La version de référence... avec Kathleen Ferrier, la divine avec sa voix si troublante
par sa profondeur, tant humaine et en même temps, si proche... des anges !
La piu grande contralto de tutti tempi!!!!!!
Oh Kathleen, my beautiful Lancashire lass, what is life without you.?
Incredible beautiful voice
Oh my! What an exquisite voice.
Incredible pure gorgeous voice
Thanks for posting - she is better than I remember from the recordings.
This shows what a dramatic singer - within a classical style - that Kathleen Ferrier had become. To fine that tone down to a thread and then expand it maintaining all quality. She is so deeply in character and moving. I agree that a couple of the vowels might not please all Italian listeners, but that is a small price to pay for such a remarkable piece of singing and theatre. If anything it reflects the fact that for much of her career she sang in English , especially during WW2. She had left school by the age of 14 with no language study apart from a smattering of French. She was exceptionally intelligent and musical, but as was customary at the time any money the family had was to be directing towards educating her brother - the son of the family.
When she started to find her voice she had to work on style , interpretation and languages. Within 12 years she was at the top of her profession. If she fell short on a couple of vowels when singing Italian here so what! Her achievement was very great and I believe she was at the height of her powers when she died.
Tenortalker I've always thought it was a great pity she never had thee opportunity to sing this in Milan, Venice or Naples! The audience would have forgiven her vowels and taken her to their hearts.
@@chrisB-xv1hl I believe she did get to sing in Milan - the piece was Bach's B Minor Mass. An Orfeo at La Scala would have been wonderful it is true..
@@Tenortalker Thanks for that piece of information. Must re-read some biografies!! Have a good Easter.
@@chrisbrewerton1521 Happy Easter. Stay safe and enjoy some music.
@@Tenortalker Thank you. Just seen. Here in Lombardy we were all locked down, no chance even of a group BBQ!
The best I have EVER heard and I have heard most Contralto's. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and i cannot remember that happening before, with the possible exception of Caruso and Callas in her prime.
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Amazing!!
Such a beautiful voice
Goose bumps and shivers...
Que maravilla escuchar esta aria por una verdadera contralto y una gran cantante. Dame Janet lo cantaba muy bien pero no llegaba a la excelencia de la Ferrier. Realmente es algo que ya no existe, ni creo que vuelva a existir... queda en nuestros oídos y en nuestro corazón
È vero, era semplicemente unica, quel suo timbro e il suo particolare vibrato fa davvero piangere...Un angelo che è volato via troppo presto. Cara, cara Ferrier
Bellísima y potente voz
Sublimely spiritual.
Sono scoppiata in lacrime dopo la prima Che farò. Sono senza parole e mi sto chiedendo come mai non ho mai sentito questa versione di Che Farò Senza Euridice prima.
Such a beautiful voice and performance..
Beautiful. No other words to describe her and her voice
Divine ❤🌹
what a sad day for us when she died, a wonderful mezzo.
Contralto- not Mezzo.
@@anneroche8444 Auténtica contralto y no lo que existe ahora
I respectfully disagree. Natalie Stutzmann is a contralto today of the highest order. Fantastic voice.
So is Sara Mingardo
@@anneroche8444 I was going to say that.
Sublime ❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely marvelous!
Life imitates Art. Kathleen Ferriers own tragedy of her early demise mirroring the death of Eurydice and soon after, Orpheus.
КАКОЕ СЧАСТЬЕ.ЧТО.БОГ.ДАЛ.НАМ.ВОЗМОЖНОСТБ.НАСЛАЖДАТЬСЯ.ЭТИМ.БИБЛЕЙСКИМ.ГОЛОСОМ ЖАЛЬ.ЧТО.НЕДОЛГО
She was my mother’s favourite singer. I remember how upset she was when her death was announced in the press.
My mother's too. Her description of her singing and final performance at Covent Garden started my life long love of opera.
My mother cried!
amazing contralto
i cried at the sheer beuuty of her voice and her aristry when i first hear this
she died too early wihtout enough recording s to properly reflect what the world lost
+robert rich. And you are not the only one! I can listen to this time and time again and it always has thee same effect on me.
I am afraid there will be no tears left if you listen to her Kindertotenlieder. There are none left whenever I hear her.
So true... So sad...
"Der Tag ist schoen" -- that phrase alone in the Farrier Kindertotenlieder summons up the words in Keats's "Ode to Melancholy: "dwells in beauty, beauty that must die".
Her voice, the vibrancy . . .incomparable.
Wonderful voice, plodding conducting
Ella tiene una vox maravillosa. Ihre Interpretation bringt gekonnt den tiefen Schmerz des Orfeus zum Ausdruck. Η φωνή της είναι πράγματι μαγεία.
sublime.
da ascoltare ad occhi chiusi ti fa sognare
Von Gluck stood at the cradle of opera. The rest is history.
ooohh!!!
Für mich die beste Interpretation dieser Arie. Wunderbare Stimme, Gänsehaut ❤
Nan Merimman war auch wunderbar,Emmi Leisner auch,dennoch Kathleen ist hier wohl überreicht
Это контральто я слушала ещё на виниловой пластинке, когда не было интернета, и я училась в муз. колледже. Первый низкий женский голос, из зарубежных певиц, с которым я тогда познакомилась. Голос поразил своей мягкостью, там ещё звучали английские песни. Спасибо, за приятные воспоминания.
Wonderful!
Maravilhoso!
5:06 legend, legend, legend .............. Ferrier pushing the art of singing to its upper limits but , of course, this is no more singing, even no more music, this is part of other worlds
Merveilleuse Kathleen Ferrier
Magic!
The last minute-Wow!
Amazing English Voice in the XX Century .......
Music from Heaven.
voix incomparable ce fut LA VOIX de contralto du siècle passé et pour lors du siècle en cours
Simply Divine
Para completar a publicação do Miguel: outro sumum ! E pensar que, praticamente, já não se podia mexer !
So WHY do I still prefer the screeching of Callas and the plodding perfection of Baker? (Though Ferrier is so much more measured than, say, Damrau) Hmmmm...I still love all three, Callas, Ferrier and Baker and am so LUCKY to be able to hear all three AND compare them!!!!
+Guy Osborn There are a lot more high overtones in the voices of Baker and Callas, so you may be just hooked on that bright sound. It's like a violin or a viola; you can't get both in one instrument.
Callas screeching??? That is not fair. She sang this aria late in her career and there is nowhere a note Callas "screeched"!!!
So, you are comparing a soprano to two contraltos? Difficult, if not impossible.....
@@123pailin I chose to think of his wording is at least half joking.
Sa voix me transporte
She has a slightly slightly masculine, femine voice. She has pomp, circumstance, emotion, a SOLEMN voice.
3:00 this pianissimo ............
감사합니다😃
More beautiful than Sutherland and Callas put together! After studying and frequent nights at the opera for 60 years, no one even comes within a mile!
Emotional
Kethleen and Janet Baker are both great mezo soprano. I love two m.soprano's interpretation absolutely equally.
La Backer era un mezzosoprano, Ferrier un contralto autentico. Tutt'e due splendide ma Kathleen molto più spirituale
Sometimes in life, a person, situation, a musicpiece appear, it is allmost as if heaven open up......
5:06 is here some possible hope in humanity, or the certitude of pain and despair ? Ferrier at the very end of the universe. Going further doensn't exist.
Where and when was this performed?
fue la primer aria que canté en un concierto.
divino
She died far too young. Another singer with a sublime voice was Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, an American soprano, who also died young of breast cancer.
Listening to Kathleen and Callas they are two different interpreations. I prefer Kathleen, get goose gumps. And of course Dame Jane Baker. Sutherland technically great but difficult to get emotionally involved. I am an Italian speaker and vowels are not perfect, but a small price to pay.
I have a recording of this inherited from my father
Well, the recitativo part was dull (but most singers cannot handle the recitativi) but the aria was great in insight and expression with some weird changes of intensity. The tempo chosen by the conductor lacked in urgency so that Kathleen Ferrier could not give the aria the whole dramatic intensity she certainly intended to give.....But as a whole it is a wonderful performance....
orpheus britannicus.der frühe Tod. von ferner war eine Tragödie.wer seraphischen Gesang hören will muss Kathleen ferner zuhören.
As ever THE finest voice ... though agree with others here that orchestra plods. Shame. Thanks for the recording.
the orchestra is really quite loud and heavy
+nofactzone I suspect that some of the leaden sound of the orchestra is the recording technology of the day, especially far from the microphone, as orchestral players are. We are lucky to have anything of her from 65 years ago.
Unique
Came here from the book "why be happy when you can be normal"=)
Me too:)
Dame Janet Baker or course!
Tá an ceol seo go h-álainn ar fad. Is fearr liom í ag amhránaíocht an amrán seo,tá mo chroí eirí in áirde tar éis í a cloisint. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.
As an Italian speaker, I do NOT think her vowels are pure enough....BUT...very good
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