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Table of Contents:

• Birthday ode for Queen Mary. Sound the trumpet (2:02) ; The Indian queen. Let us wander, not unseen (1:46) ; King Arthur. Shepherd, shepherd, cease decoying (1:20) / Henry Purcell
• Ottone. Spring is coming (3:52) ; Ottone. Come to me, soothing sleep (4:16) / George Frid[e]ric Handel
• Orfeo ed Euridice. Chiamo il mio ben così (7:29) ; Deh! placatevi con me (7:29) ; Che puro ciel! (5:35) ; Che feci mai?
• Che farò senza Euridice? (6:01) / Christoph Willibald von Gluck
• O praise the Lord (1:48) ; O God of my righteousness. I will lay me down in peace (3:47) / Maurice Greene ; arr. Roper
• I would that my love : op. 63, no. 1 (2:45) ; Greeting : op. 63, no. 2 [i.e. no. 3] (2:30) / Felix Mendelssohn
• Kindertotenlieder / Gustav Mahler (24:00).

Author/Creator:

Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911

Contributors:

Ferrier, Kathleen, 1912-1953

Moore, Gerald, 1899-1987

Baillie, Isobel, 1895-1983

Bruck, Charles

Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695

Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787

Greene, Maurice, 1696-1755

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847

Nederlandse Opera

Wiener Philharmoniker

Languages:

English
Italian
German

Language Notes:

Sung in English, Italian, and German.

Main Work:

Kindertotenlieder [by Mahler, G.]

Included Works:

Come ye sons of art away [by Purcell, H.] > Sound the trumpet 'till around

Indian queen [by Purcell, H.] > We, the spirits of the air (arranged)

King Arthur [by Purcell, H.] > Shepherd, leave decoying (arranged)

Ottone [by Handel, G.F.] > Speranza è giunta in porto (arranged; English)

Ottone [by Handel, G.F.] > Vieni, o figlio! (arranged; English)

Orfeo ed Euridice [by Gluck, C.W.] (Selections)

Select anthems [by Greene, M.] > Praise the Lord, O my soul > O praise the Lord, ye angels of his (arranged)

Select anthems [by Greene, M.] > O God of my righteousness > I will lay me down in peace (arranged)

Lieder, voices (2), piano [by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, F.] > Op. 63 > Ich wollt' meine Lieb' (English)

Lieder, voices (2), piano [by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, F.] > Op. 63 > Gruss (English)

Related Series:

Great recordings of the century

Subjects:

Vocal duets with piano

Operas — Excerpts, Arranged

Operas — Excerpts

Sacred songs (Low voice) with piano

Song cycles

Songs (Low voice) with orchestra

Operas

Genres:

Excerpts

Operas

Excerpts, Arranged

Performers:

Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Gerald Moore, piano (all except Gluck and Mahler); Isobel Baillie, soprano (Purcell and Mendelssohn); Orchestra and Chorus of the Netherlands Opera, Charles Bruck, conductor (Gluck); Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter, conductor (Mahler).

Performance Medium:

3 performers: voices (2); piano
3 performers: solo soprano voice; solo alto voice; piano
2 performers: alto voice; piano
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo alto voice; orchestra

General Notes:

(C.2) From the collection of Joe Morris
In part opera excerpts; the Mahler work is a song cycle.
Recorded 1944-1949, No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, and Kingsway Hall, London (principally), and Jan. 1951, Municipal Theatre, Amsterdam (Gluck).
Previously released material.
Program notes by Alan Blyth and texts of the Gluck and Mahler works with English translations (15 p.) inserted in container.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; 1.4 m/s; mono

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 130,713

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 724356696327
Publisher Number, EMI Classics: 7243 5 66963 2 7
Publisher Number, EMI Classics: CDU 7243 5 66963 2 7
Publisher Number, EMI Classics: 5 66963 2

OCLC Numbers:

41173573