Brahms - Vier ernste Gesänge 1 - Kathleen Ferrier

[chadmaster410]

such pain in her voice.bellisimo bellisimo!

[emilblom1]

Wer weiß, ob der Geist des Menschen aufwärts fahre, und der Odem des Viehes unterwärts unter die Erde fahre? Darum sahe ich, daß nichts bessers ist, denn daß der Mensch frählich sei in seiner Arbeit, denn das ist sein Teil. Denn wer will ihn dahin bringen, daß er sehe, was nach ihm geschehen wird?

[undefinate]

this is my jam right here dawggg yeeeahhh woot woot

[SuperMonkeycheeks]

I sung the series of songs for my university dissertation. such haunting music, fantastic challenge to sing.

[PrismaticThrum]

Incredible

[7inga7]

How glorious!

[goldoliv]

This lied, also sung by KF, is the theme music of a Chabrol's film, "Que la bete meure...", from 1969. The lied is played at the very beginning and at the end. When I heard it would have bet that it is from Mahler.

[gigigunn]

@goldoliv Oh, yes, I get Mahler, too!! I have the feeling they (Brahms and Mahler) had a similar sense of awe towards mortality and who/whatever the Higher Maker is/turns out to be...

Thanks for the intel on Que la bête meure, will have to check it out somehow... The Harvard Film Archive in BOS is currently doing a Chabrol film series, but "Bête" is unfortunately not on the roster.. :-(

[543693The]

@papotin29

merci Fanfan ! rien à voir avec Irina Arkhipova et ma vidéo ..... mais merci j'aime beaucoup K.FERRIER , je dois bien avoir un disque qui se cache :))

Marie

[543693The]

@LUN960

merci pour ce chant sublime !! Quelle belle voix de contralto !!

Marie K

[reviewsvoiceontube]

Thank you very much for this post. I know many versions and Hans Hotter is my favourite version so far...but Kathleen Ferrier is impressive here...likely to be my favourite female performance.

[CanadaPisces]

Superb singing! TY!

[tomfroekjaer]

Great singing ! Does anyone know who wrote the lyrics - also Brahms ??

[CzarDodon]

The text is fome the bible: Ecclesiastes 3:19-22

[tomfroekjaer]

Thanks.

[MrCafiero]

A real contralto. Nice to hear. Nowadays we have mezzo's with no high notes posing for contraltos.

[CanadaPisces]

Superb singing! TY!

[CurzonRoad]

Thanks to CzarDodon for this fine posting, and to CanadaPisces for sharing.

[DieSonneSinkt]

I just bought the Decca CD of this recording, it is 7 seconds longer than this (I think you better adjust your LP there, CzarDodon) the volume is very low and at some points you can hear another track playing in the background (I think the magnetic tape the CD was recorded from had been over-magnetised.

[CzarDodon]

The timing (and the pitch) is exactly the same as given on more than one internet site, are you sure you haven't bought a different recording? is the pianist John Newmark? or perhaps they have added some extra silence on your issue. As for the volume it sound ok to me, try restarting your computer, my volume sometimes plays tricks like that. I don't hear anything in the background either... are you sure you didn't take your Halcion (Triazolam) with a shot of scotch?

[DieSonneSinkt]

I'm a Mac user, so I'm sure it's not a computer problem :P .

I heard that a major problem in magnetic tapes is that pick up from other parts of the recording because of the contact that the tape has as it if curled up.

Ferrier I believe has performed this twice, once in English with orchestra, and once with piano accompany (this one), I have both recordings and I must say that this one is by far more superior.

I was wrong about the timing by the way.

[G0nin]

there is a great opening scene to this in 'que les bete meure' by chabrol

[danyto75]

je pleure en écoutant ces pièces par Kathleen Ferrier. Impressionnant !

[iltonjardim]

god! what a voice!

[ernent]

אַחֲרָיו

I think Kohelet had HER in mind when he wrote this ...

[ernent]

כִּי מִקְרֶה בְנֵי הָאָדָם וּמִקְרֶה הַבְּהֵמָה וּמִקְרֶה אֶחָד לָהֶם כְּמוֹת זֶה כֵּן מוֹת זֶה וְרוּחַ אֶחָד לַכֹּל וּמוֹתַר הָאָדָם מִן הַבְּהֵמָה אָיִן כִּי הַכֹּל הָבֶל כ הַכֹּל הוֹלֵךְ אֶל מָקוֹם אֶחָד הַכֹּל הָיָה מִן הֶעָפָר וְהַכֹּל שָׁב אֶל הֶעָפָר מִי יוֹדֵעַ רוּחַ בְּנֵי הָאָדָם הָעֹלָה הִיא לְמָעְלָה וְרוּחַ הַבְּהֵמָה הַיֹּרֶדֶת הִיא לְמַטָּה לָאָרֶץ וְרָאִיתִי כִּי אֵין טוֹב מֵאֲשֶׁר יִשְׂמַח הָאָדָם בְּמַעֲשָׂיו כִּי הוּא חֶלְקוֹ כִּי מִי יְבִיאֶנּוּ לִרְאוֹת בְּמֶה שֶׁיִּהְיֶה