Historical
June round-up
athleen Ferrier and Bruno Walter collaborated for five happy years after he discovered her by chance; in a charming interview at the end of , the conductor pays tribute to her ‘grave beauty of voice and purity of personality’, and in a separate interview talks about his mentor Gustav Mahler. This disc is, with tenor Set Svanholm and the New York Philharmonic at the Carnegie Hall in 1948. ‘My soft notes came as I’ve never known them,’ she said afterwards, and ‘Der Abschied’ is magical: her voice is so fresh, gloriously at ease with its power and delicate vibrato. (★★★★★ ) Paul Tortelier as a musician and teacher believed that music’s vertical and linear dimensions – harmony and counterpoint – should be kept in balance, and regarded his own compositions – a light-hearted example of which is included in
