Kathleen Ferrier ~ What is life & Art thou troubled

Recorded in 1946 ~ Kathleen Ferrier ~ much beloved English Contralto ~ born on April 22, 1912, in Lancashire U.K. and died October 8th 1953.
Two favourites first heard on my grandmother's knee.
Audio with photo montage.

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[Theodoxia]

I was introduced to Kathleen Ferrier by a grand lady (a friend and neigbour) Lillian Kees who was died in 1998 aged 93. Whenever I hear Kathleen I think of her. She was a great fan of Kathleen and sang herself.

[RussellK9]

Theo explained ~ introduced to Kathleen's music.♫♪♫♪☺

[Spiritualsound]

Listening to Kathleen Ferrier is, for those with a kind heart, very like hearing the beautiful soul of the Creator. Her two qualities of personality: one a high spirited jolly tomboy and the other secret, profound and of another world have memorably touched innumerable people to inspire good in them. She must be truly delighted that people remember her so very highly. God bless her always!

[Sunflowers159]

The greatest honour that anyone has ever paid to me was when I sang Que Faro at a music festival in the mid-1980s. A woman came up to me afterwards and said that she'd been at Kathleen Ferrier's last concert at Covent Garden and my voice reminded her of that performance. I had great difficulty stopping myself from crying when she said that.

[pedi007]

What a face, What a voice. Too bad she died so young

[chilledminx]

Wonderful, amazing, beautiful voice. What a tragedy she was taken from us so young.

[MrMickmonk]

how and I ask you .. HOW can anyone dislike anything that is as powerfull and moving as this..........apart from people who are musically deaf

[fatalistbg1]

Indeed ,adorable ,a truly wonderful voice! And this Second Person Singular English Pronoun- "Thoy art...." sounds so pleasurably friendly !!!

[schwani]

@cherrypixie7 It is the 8th song of the Frauen Liebe und Leben cycle by Schumann. "Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan" It is the second verse "Es blicket die Verlassne vor sich hin, Die Welt is leer. Geliebet hab ich und gelebt, ich bin Nicht lebend mehr."

[MalcTV]

Imagine hearing this lovely and tragic music in 1946, at the end of WW2 where literally millions of people lost their loved ones! Wow.

[buttonfreezer]

lovely lovely lovely les reves mysteriese de mon enfance. burnley be proud of her. even now she steps back intt our lives because death cannot hold her back.we have lived to hear that voice. so beautiful and so of england. thankyou Kathleen.

[cherrypixie7]

Does anybody know what the song is called in which she sings the following lyrics: "Die Welt ist leer, Ich will nicht leben mehr"? I've googled it but have gotten nowhere.

[lodstromsballin]

60 years after her death the world is still licking it's wounds. But out ears are soothed bu the immortal beauty of her voice. The tear glands get a work-out also.