Kathleen Ferrier sings Mahler
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), with Julius Patzak (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter
The sense of pathos is almost unbearable.
Kathleen Ferrier sings Mahler
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), with Julius Patzak (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter
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The sense of pathos is almost unbearable.
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Contents and tracklist
- Julius Patzak (tenor), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Bruno Walter
- Recorded: 1952-05-16
- Recording Venue: Musikverein, Vienna
I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde
Track length8:48
This track is only available as an album download.
II. Der Einsame im Herbst
Track length9:22
This track is only available as an album download.
VI. Der Abschied
Track length28:26
This track is only available as an album download.
- Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Bruno Walter
- Recorded: 1952-05-16
- Recording Venue: Musikverein, Vienna
Awards and reviews
January 2012
The sense of pathos is almost unbearable.
2010
The 1952 Walter will never lose its place at the heart of any review of Das Lied recordings. Walter obtains even richer, more impassioned, more pointed playing from the Vienna Philharmonic than in 1936 in, of course, improved sound. With his disciple Ferrier as alto soloist, her songs are richly, warmly voiced, and taken, particularly in the finale, to the limits of emotional involvement.
Few have attempted to identify so completely with the work's ethos of farewell and its thoughts of eternity. Ferrier envelops one to the core of one's being. The wholly idiomatic and wonderfully expressive Patzak is the near-ideal tenor.
2010
The latest Decca remastering of the famous (1952) Ferrier-Patzak version of Das Lied is a revelation...Ferrier's voice is warmly and vividly caught, as is the characterful Patzak.
