I was given a biography of Kathleen Ferrier as a Sunday School Prize in the 1960s. So pleased not to get a religious book, I read it from cover to cover repeatedly, fascinated by the story. When I finally heard her voice years later on LP record I was not disappointed. The personality that comes through the voice is extraordinary. It's this sort of voice that stops sacred music being so ethereal it can't connect with human warmth and suffering.
Lovely Kaff, speaking in her BBC voice, the same voice she used on the 1949 introduction to her Edinburgh Festival recital accompanied by Gerald Moore, a mile away from the natural Lancashire lass who, after a recording asked the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, 'Was that alright Luv', as an aside, she was born in an end terraced house not 15 minutes away from where I live, Klever Kaff....
@@tommyhall5010 I thought it was Bruno Walter after a recording of Das Lied von der Erde that she asked that question ...or at least that is how Bernie Hammond tells the story
No film or video.
Only the glorious unforgettable voice.
I was given a biography of Kathleen Ferrier as a Sunday School Prize in the 1960s. So pleased not to get a religious book, I read it from cover to cover repeatedly, fascinated by the story. When I finally heard her voice years later on LP record I was not disappointed. The personality that comes through the voice is extraordinary. It's this sort of voice that stops sacred music being so ethereal it can't connect with human warmth and suffering.
Was she English what a beautiful voice
Glorious voice taken to soon.
I simply cannot find any live video recordings of her. Sad.
lovely to hear this wonderful singer. The German to English translation is just wonderful. "Hotel dog songs in Carnegie Hall".
Lovely Kaff, speaking in her BBC voice, the same voice she used on the 1949 introduction to her Edinburgh Festival recital accompanied by Gerald Moore, a mile away from the natural Lancashire lass who, after a recording asked the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, 'Was that alright Luv', as an aside, she was born in an end terraced house not 15 minutes away from where I live, Klever Kaff....
@@tommyhall5010 I thought it was Bruno Walter after a recording of Das Lied von der Erde that she asked that question ...or at least that is how Bernie Hammond tells the story
The Great Contralto. Listen to her only known live recording of Gluck in Amsterdam in 1951 (in her prime and uncomparable).
enorme contralto...