Tag: Sir Malcolm Sargent
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Kathleen Ferrier Sings Bach and Handel
Kathleen Ferrier was Britain’s greatest lyric contralto, a superstar not only in England but internationally through her recordings and frequent appearances on radio in Europe and North America. Her tragically early death at 41 in 1953 – which coincidentally threatened to overshadow the Queen’s coronation year – was mourned worldwide. Her recordings of music from…
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A Minor, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) was a prodigiously talented English composer and conductor of mixed race birth. In 1902 a group of African-American music lovers formed the Coleridge-Taylor Society to perform and promote his music in America, and eventually brought Coleridge-Taylor over for three successful tours—in 1904, 1906, and 1910. During the first tour, Coleridge-Taylor conducted the…
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Pineapple Poll (Ballet) & Favourite Sullivan Overtures
(Poll): “This ebullient dish-up of Sullivan is played here with tremendous élan in the merry bits and delightful expressiveness in the sentimental ones. In fact this version is much better played and recorded than either of its rivals, and if one were to be solemn one might describe it as the definitive recording in stereo.…
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The Very Best of Kathleen Ferrier Centenary Collection
“Klever Kaff or The Lass from Blackburn, originally a telephonist then pianist who yearned to sing, combined two things: the personality to communicate with the widest audience, and encourage them in great music, with world-class artistic quality. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s pupil, said: The greatest thing in music in my life has been to have known…
