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Ferrier: A Career Recorded (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: Thames Publishing (31 May 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 090341371X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0903413718
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 425,751 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This edition of 'Ferrier-A Career Recorded' has been written to celebrate the 50th Kathleen Ferrier Singing Awards which took place at the Wigmore Hall, London in April 2005, one of the country's most prestigious competitions for young singers.

This new version (the previous edition was published in 1992 and has been long out of print) deals in depth with every facet of Kathleen Ferrier's career as a recording artist.

She left a great number of recordings which have been popular for years, from 'Blow the wind southerly' to 'What is Life', but recently yet more recordings, taken from radio broadcasts, have been discovered and are to be issued on CD in the autumn of 2005. The book gives details of all these works.

Kathleen Ferrier's singing is still greatly loved by musicians and enthusiasts the world over and this book is the indispensible companion to every collection of her records. It is extensively illustrated and contains original contributions from, among others, Lady Barbirolli, Michael Berkeley, the Earl of Harewood, Bryan Crimp and Michael Letchford, all of whom either knew Ferrier herself or have a direct link with some of her incomparable recordings.

It relates how 'lost' recordings have been re-discovered and issued on CD, how Decca turned a mono Ferrier recording into a stereo one, where (and why) Ferrier can be heard singing lustily at a boisterous party to her own piano accompaniment and how her earliest surviving radio broadcast (from 1945) was an early attempt at Anglo-Soviet entente - and much else besides.

This is a tribute, too, to a singer who, in a recording career of just eight and a half years, left a legacy that is daily being re-discovered by music lovers worldwide.

From the Author
It has been a real delight to write an updated edition of this, my first book. I'm sure that many other admirers of this wonderful singer will enjoy reading it - and I send them all my good wishes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than the first edition!, 24 Jul 2005
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When I came across the first edition of this book in my local library several years ago, I had just been bitten by the "KF bug". This book became my trusty guide through the complications of the recordings and provided more details about the recording sessions and musical background than were available in the biographies. Since the book first appeared, more recordings have turned up, and in the last couple of years there has been quite a flood of new cds on the market, so this up-to-date version is most welcome.
This 2nd edtion retains what I liked most about the first - lots of fascinating details presented in a very clear and user-friendly way - but with even more of it. Some of the photos from the original are not as large and clear as in the first edition, but there are more of them and they're incorporated into the text, so I think on balance that's an improvement. The text also gives more details. For example, there are now descriptions of the recording venues (like the Kingsway Hall and the old Decca studios). As someone living outside the UK, this sort of information is particularly welcome. I also enjoyed delving into the shady world of the "pirate" recordings.
The book would probably be most interesting for those who are already familiar with the well-known KF recordings and want to delve deeper. But I would recommend it for any admirer of KF's music.
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