Tribute to Kathleen Ferrier

[CHANTAL1747]

HERMOSA ÚNICA ALGO QUE NUNCA MAS PASARÁ ...POR ESTE MUNDO DOS VECES GRACIAS POR SUBIR!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thecubanism]

I live not ten minutes away from her birthplace, 1 Bank Terrace, a modest end terraced house in Higher Walton, Lancashire, it has a lovely plaque on the wall with the comment that her voice gave pleasure to millions, a little further up the road is her memorial garden, each time I pass either a tear comes to my eye, Klever Kaff gave us a wealth of beautiful music, I remember when she sang for Sir Thomas Beecham and after her performance turned to him and said 'Was that alright love'?, RIP .

[rmcinuk]

The only contralto I have ever enjoyed.

Superb, we will not hear her like again.

[silvian2011]

Magnífica, de lo mejor, una clásica de veras.

[nfahringer]

Thank you. She will live on in our hearts.......listen to her "Blow the Wind Southerly"

[Herur22]

Magnificent.

[mckavitt]

@zeppelinRULES44 Any relation?? Lucky you, just to have the same name as this very great artist, cut from life which she so loved, her life of music-making, by breast cancer that little by little insidiously took her from us.

[billyguns2]

This is some of the most sublime signing I ever hope to hear, captured in superb sound; what a shame you cut it off before the song finished! Is there any way you can share the entire song? it's not really that long, you know.

[trefor46]

57 years ago our Primary School Deputy Headteacher, Mrs King, told us that we would never hear a voice like this again - she was right!

[bilstew]

Great to hear Kathleen sing this song from my homeland, pity about the abrupt ending....

[m134e5]

The pictures are nice and the voice is very nice. The song is also nice, but the fact that it gets clipped off in this video is a disappointment. I suggest you redo this video and either add more pictures, or slow down the picture changing rate and include the whole song.

[encoberta]

Oh my God - you tube is one of the best inventions ever.

Would you please upload the whole song?

[Angeleaf]

Mamma mia che voce pastosa e morbida...un gusto musicale commovente...una splendida artista la Ferrier...

[chuckbach]

Does anyone know: Did Kathleen Ferrier ever record Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures? It seems like such a perfect match for her voice.

[Pacabelle]

The greatest contralto ever lived!!

[Pacabelle]

Would you kindly upload the whole song please?

[mckavitt]

@Pacabelle Agreed, and one of the greatest voices of the 20th (and probably any) century. Check out her "Agnus Dei" (Bach's B minor Mass) and be sitting when you put it on!

[Pacabelle]

The greatest contralto ever lived!!

[chaveneau]

trop court

[Epc100]

Very nice - but with a sudden end. A longer period on each picture and a fade out at the end of the piece would make it perfect!

[bilstew]

So proud to hear this Irish song dedicated to the great Kathleen Ferrier.May her great talent remain evergreen in our memories.Thanks for posting.....

[bilstew]

how nice to hear a voice so well suited to this lovely song from the poem by W.B. Yeats.

I wonder did she ever sing another Irish song called "Kilkeel"Up in the mountains looking o'er the sea,thats where you'll find me,above Kilkeel.Lovely ballad of the Mountains of Mourne..here in Ireland.

[debbyplayer]

Her voice is unique. Deep, but full of light. And she was so beautiful. Why not the entire song? Thxs a lot.

[LOZBONE]

As a third generation KF fan it's good to know that there are still so many followers fifty years on, wonder what she would have made of Youtube?

[butchfoot]

no words are good enough to describe the beauty of her voice.

[redfire20003]

Can U Upload the full Play of The "Sally Gardens", her ethereal voice just blew me away.

[ellandelachapelle]

The man in glasses who walks beside her in the street, smiling, is the Danish tenor Aksel Schiotz. They sang a lot together. But his career was spoilt by a brain tumour! The accompanist Gerald Moore (the plump smiling man in one of the photos) said that he was one of 2 tenors he had ever met who didn´t talk about himself all the time! (I wonder who the other one was?) Does anyone have a video with him?

[edronc2007]

Wen die Götter lieben...

[Mcdonnell07]

Lathleen Ferrier will never be forgotten. How sad it was that she got cancer of the throat as such a young age. Thank you for sharing her music with us. I love her too.

[fsharpmajor]

I thought she was diagnosed with breast cancer (not throat cancer?) which then underwent metastasis and affected her bones. In her last on stage performance, Orfeo,before her death her leg actually broke and she was carried out on a stretcher. To her great professionalism and credit she finished the performance. She must have suffered agony!

[mckavitt]

@fsharpmajor You are absolutely and tragically right.

[hdmk5]

The greatest singer EVER!!!!

[RickManchester]

was kathleen ferrier ever actually filmed singing?

[ellandelachapelle]

As far as I know the only existing film with her is a silent short film where she sings and plays the piano in a funny song. She started as a pianist (as a very young person) and used to clown about at the piano, accompanying herself. (a bit hard to believe, isn´t it?) Someone put sound to this film. A home audio-recording with her singing a hilarious song!

[duettists]

The voice of the twentieth century. What a tragedy that her singing career was of such a short duration.

[kajaDenmark]

she was a nice contralto

[simmo303]

Cancer of the throat, what terrible thing to happen to the greatest singer ever. I'm still hoping to find a Contralto her equal. I have all her records, many of the songs reduce me to a tear-sodden wreck and I count myself as man not given to showing emotion.

[xeasternxz]

Beautiful video, but sadly, like Kathleen's life, too short. Thank you

[ecosse99]

Kathleen Ferrier, An Ordinary Diva is the answer. Enjoy

[nfahring]

There are several books about Ferrier (one by her sister, Winifred, published by Hamish Hamilton Press in England in 1955, another a series of portraits of her by those who knew her (Benjamin Britten among them), and there are a number of remastered CDs of her singing. One is Decca "The World of Kathleen Ferrier" is its title, with a melange of songs (folksongs, standards, some lieder, ending poignantly with Mahler's Um Mitternacht. Decca 430 096-2.

nfahr

[spiffyacey]

I love Kathleen Ferrier so much.. there are no words to fully express just how wonderful she was. This song always makes me cry..

She will live on, in our hearts.

[Tatsurau]

que hermoso y grato momento, una voz realmente bella, profunda.. sin lugar a dudas la mejor contralto de la historia!, bella, diva y unica grande Kathleen Ferrier!!

[ecosse99]

There's a one hour DVD programme about Ferrier , transmitted by the BBC in 2003. I can recommend it to all admirers of this wonderful singer.

[nfahring]

I'd love to acquire this DVD. Any more info about it? Also, FYI there's a DVD of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson doing Handel's Theodora.

And finally, there are several old books about Kathleen Ferrier. One, by her sister Winnifred, published in 1955 in England by Hamish Hamilton......another a series of single chapters about her as remembered by others (Britten, etc.). There are a number of remastered CDs of her singing, as well.

[jonka1]

thank you very much for putting this together. Have recently discovered this beautiful singer, who was a favourite of my grandparents.

[nfahr]

She has a successor, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, but both were struck down prematurely by breast cancer.

[SieglindeMoos]

I agree. How sad. It breaks my heart. Lorraine was even more communicative because her technique was so great and you could understand every single word. I love her.

[berncer]

What song is she singing ?

[nfahr]

She' s singing "Down By the Sally Gardens", an English folksong.

[SieglindeMoos]

It is an IRISH folksong... Greetings.

[nfahr]

Thanks for some deep history of a lovely singer we will all remember.

[RickManchester]

was she ever filmed singing?

[wjs1234]

A great voice from the north taken away from us to soon

[osbert43]

A truly unique and beautiful voice