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Kathleen Ferrier, contralto: The Complete EMI Recordings

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-04-24

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice; Orfeo ed Euridice; Johannes Brahms: Liebestreu, Op. 3 no 1; German folk songs (49) for voice & piano, WoO 33; Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius; Ma...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Duval, Nel; Koeman, Greet; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth
Conductors: Walter, Bruno; Karajan, Herbert von; Bruck, Charles

Described as a 'legend in her own lifetime', Kathleen Ferrier rose form obscurity to become one of the most sough-after contraltos of the 20th century....continue...

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Gluck; Greene; etc. / Kathleen Ferrier, Gerald Moore

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-03-26

Works: Henry Purcell: Birthday Ode for Queen Mary; The Indian Queen; Shepherd, leave decoying (from "King Arthur"), symphony & duet for 2 sopranos, Z. 628/16; George Frederick Handel: Ottone; Christoph Will...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Moore, Gerald [Piano]
Conductors: Bruck, Charles; Walter, Bruno
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic

Gramophone Magazine
An outstandingly beautiful performance à Kathleen Ferrier, under Bruno Walter's inspired direction, sings these songs as, one feels, Mahler must have imagined them...continue...

Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (Box)

4 CD / Membran Import / 2006-04-27

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Symphony no 4 in A major, Op. 90 "Italian"; Concerto for Violin in D minor; Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in C minor, Op. 66; Quartet for Strings no 1 ...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Heifetz, Jascha; Johnston, James; Kushnevitzky, Sviatoslav; O'Hora, Ronan [Piano]; Oborin, Lev; Oistrakh, David; Williams, Harold
Conductors: Zinman, David; Sanderling, Stefan; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Faerber, Jörg; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir

To Music / Isobel Baillie & Kathleen Ferrier

1 CD / Appian Publications & Recordings / 2004-10-01

Works: Henry Purcell: Bid the virtues; Stript of their green our groves appear, Z 444; I saw that you were grown so high, Z 387; Indian Queen, Z 630; King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628; George Freder...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Moore, Gerald [Piano]

Singers to Remember - Isobel Baillie - The Unforgettable

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2002-10-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Giulio Cesare, HWV 17; Rodelinda; Der Messias; Theodora; Joshua; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 68, "Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt" BWV 68; Cantata no 201, "Der Streit zw...
Performers: Baillie, Isobel; Draper, Charles; Ison, G.; Lockwood, Arthur; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Pini, Anthony
Conductors: Braithwaite, Warwick; Cameron, Basil; Heward, Leslie; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Prentice, Charles; Robinson, Stanford
Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Hallé Orchestra; Orchestra; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra