Kathleen Ferrier
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish contralto singer (1912-1953)
Kathleen Mary Ferrier was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar.
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Kathleen Ferrier's birthplace in Higher Walton
King George's Hall, Blackburn, where Ferrier made early appearances as an accompanist at "celebrity" concerts
St Kentigern's Church at Aspatria, Cumbria, the scene of Ferrier's first professional singing engagement in 1937
Benjamin Britten in the mid-1960s
Bruno Walter, the German-born conductor with whom Ferrier worked closely from 1947 until her death
Ferrier in Orfeo ed Eurydice (1949)
Marian Anderson, who said of Ferrier: "What a voice - and what a face!"Listen
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Gustav HolstAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Bruno WalterAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Mstislav RostropovichAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Benjamin BrittenAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
Ignacy Jan PaderewskiAlso won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold MedalAbout this person
Kathleen Mary Ferrier was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar. Her death from cancer, at the height of her fame, was a shock to the musical world and particularly to the general public, which was kept in ignorance of the nature of her illness until after her death.
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