Musically, and less affected by pers.biografischen affinities and more distant,
one can judge this> Lied von der Erde Ferrier and Mahler conductor Bruno Walter also quite differentiated.
Apart from the early, slightly transparent, dense, but acceptable sound may
Walters is conducting nor the flexible-nuanced as contemporary and friend of Mahler, and
Game Wiener than adequately, somehow authentic and always called senior.
With today's ears.
(And also late compared to Klemperer, Philharmonia slightly stoic-conducting)
The little voice of Patzak sounds closely-nasal dyed in height, slightly open and full sounding,
and even with good phrasing (of youth), but less sounding drunk, rather dry,
and in every respect no comparison to the full-bodied bright, height and also safe
eloquently articulating Fritz Wunderlich with Klemperer.
Ferrier's dark timbre lament seems to my mind unfortunately consistently as
interwoven tragic by a sensitive-whiny tone, even if there
Pick> Boy Girl flowers or banter acclamation but are Mahler's Lieder fewer staff based on a real character, but
meant rather than idealistic, spiritual expression.
And Ferrier's vocal idiomatic deficits hear rather Spracheingeborene, not the native
english, which are stirred primarily by Ferriertimbre.
All stylistically and technically vote Christa Ludwig is superior in Klemperer what
their controlled diction, phrasing and their behavior cool emphasis concerns.
Ferrier singing plaintively vs. Ludwig, who complains singing.
Matters of taste, who knows? Maybe someone is a known. Overpowered aesthetics, a
Anyway very pers. dismay at the art-craft away.
Could we replace the singer or the conductors, possibly would result even
more coherent Mahler recording:
Ludwig and Wunderlich singing of the Vienna Philharmonic under Bruno Walter accompanied
Mahler's Lied. And St.Martha listens in heaven.
Great Recordings Of The Century - Mahler (The Song of the Earth)
