Kathleen Ferrier: the complete Decca recordings

CD 1. Orfeo ed Euridice : abridged / Christoph Willibald Gluck.

CD 2. St. Matthew Passion : BWV 244 : arias and choruses. Come, ye daughters ; My Master and my Lord

Grief for sin ; Behold, my Saviour now is taken ; Ah! now is my Saviour gone ; Have mercy, Lord, on me

Lamb of God, I fall before Thee ; O gracious God!

If my tears be unavailing ; O sacred head surrounded ; Ah, Golgotha!

See ye! See the Saviour's outstretched hands ; Be near me, Lord, when dying ; And now the Lord to rest is laid

In tears of grief / Johann Sebastian Bach.

CD 3. Orfeo ed Euridice. What is life? / Gluck

Rodelinda. Art thou troubled? / Handel

St. Matthew Passion. Have mercy, Lord, on me / Bach

Serse. Ombra mai fu / Handel

Elijah. Woe unto them ; O rest in the Lord / Mendelssohn

Stabat Mater / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; orch. Scott.

CD 4. Frauenliebe und -leben : op. 42 ; Volksliedchen : op. 51, no. 2 ; Widmung : op. 25, no. 1 / Robert Schumann

Sapphische Ode : op. 94, no. 4 ; Botschaft : op. 47, no. 1 / Johannes Brahms

Gretchen am Spinnrade : D118 ; Die junge Nonne : D828 ; An die Musik : D547 ; Der Musensohn : D764 ; Ganymed : D544 ; Du liebst mich nicht : D756 ; Lachen und Weinen : D777 / Franz Schubert

Silent night, holy night

O come, all ye faithful.

CD 5. Four serious songs : op. 121 / Johannes Brahms ; orch. Sargent

Poème de l'amour et de la mer : op. 19 / Ernest Chausson

Discovery : op. 13 / Howard Ferguson

Three songs, op. 5 / William Wordsworth

Three psalms, op. 61 / Edmund Rubbra.

CD 6. The fairy lough ; A soft day / Stanford

Love is a bable / Parry

Silent noon / Vaughan Williams

Go not, happy day / Bridge

Sleep ; Pretty ring-time / Warlock

O Waly, Waly ; Come you not from Newcastle? / arr. Britten

Kitty, my love / arr. Hughes

Mad Bess of Bedlam ; The fairy queen. Hark! the echoing air / Purcell

Atalanta. Like as the love-lorn turtle ; Admeto. How changed the vision / Handel

4 Mörike-Lieder / Wolf

Altar / Jensen

Vergiss mein nicht ; Ach, dass nicht die letzte Stunde / J.S. Bach

Bist du bei mir / attrib. J.S. Bach.

CD 7. Mass in B minor, BWV 232. Qui sedes ; St. Matthew Passion : BWV 244. Grief for sin ; St. John Passion : BWV 245. All is fulfilled ; Mass in B minor, BWV 232. Agnus Dei / Johann Sebastian Bach

Samson. Return, O God of hosts! ; Messiah. O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion ; Judas Maccabaeus. Father of Heaven ; Messiah. He was despised / George Friedrich Handel.

CD 8. Ma bonny lad ; The keel row ; Blow the wind southerly / arr. Whittaker

I have a bonnet trimmed with blue / arr. Hughes

My boy Willie / arr. Sharp

I know where I'm goin' / arr. Hughes

The fidgety bairn / arr. Robertson

I will walk with my love / arr. Hughes

Ca' the yowes / arr. Jacobson

O Waly, Waly / arr. Britten

Willow, willow / arr. Warlock

The stuttering lovers / arr. Hughes

Now sleeps the crimson petal ; The fair house of joy ; To daisies ; Over the mountains / Quilter

Have you seen but a whyte lillie grow? / arr. Grew

Ye banks and braes ; Drink to me only / arr. Quilter

Down by the salley gardens ; The lover's curse / arr. Hughes.

CD 9. What the Edinburgh Festival has meant to me : talk by Kathleen Ferrier

Die junge Nonne : D828 ; Rosamunde. Romance, D797, no. 3b ; Du liebst mich nicht : D756 ; Der Tod und das Mädchen : D531 ; Suleika I : D720 ; Du bist die Ruh : D776 / Franz Schubert

Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer : op. 105, no. 2 ; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht : op. 96, no. 1 ; Botschaft : op. 47, no. 1 ; Von ewiger Liebe : op. 43, no. 1 / Johannes Brahms

Frauenliebe und -leben : op. 42 / Robert Schumann.

CD 10. Alto rhapsody, op. 53 ; Gestillte Sehnsucht : op. 91, no. 1 ; Geistliches Wiegenlied : op. 91, no. 2 ; Vier ernste Gesänge : op. 121 / Johannes Brahms

Kindertotenlieder / Gustav Mahler.

CD 11. Liebeslieder-Walzer : op. 52, nos. 1-18 (complete) ; Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer : op. 65, no. 15 / Johannes Brahms

Spring symphony : op. 44 / Benjamin Britten.

CD 12. Symphony no. 2 in C minor : Resurrection / Gustav Mahler.

CD 13. Das Lied von der Erde = The song of the Earth = Le chant de la terre ; 3 Rückert-Lieder / Gustav Mahler.

CD 14. Cantata BWV 11 : Praise our God who reigns in Heaven = Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen : Ascension oratorio ; Cantata BWV 67 : Hold in affection Jesus Christ = Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ / Johann Sebastian Bach.

DVD. Kathleen Ferrier : an ordinary diva.