Kathleen Ferrier, contralto ; Phyllis Spurr, Frederick Stone, piano ; various orchestras and conductors
Recorded 1946-1952.
Sung in English, Italian or German.
Blow the wind southerly (2:21) ; The keel row (1:42) ; Ma bonny lad (1:46) / trad., arr. Whittaker -- Go not happy day / Bridge (1:33) -- Come you not from Newcastle / trad., arr. Britten (1:32) -- Kitty my love / trad., arr. Hughes (1:16) -- Rodelinda. Art thou troubled? / Handel (4:39) ; Serse. Ombra mai fu (4:38) / Handel -- Orfeo ed Euridice. What is life? / Gluck (4:26) -- Elijah. Woe unto them (3:10) ; O rest in the Lord (3:37) / Mendelssohn -- St. Mathew Passion. Have mercy, Lord, on me /J.S. Bach (8:10) -- Gretchen am Spinnrade (3:11) ; Die junge Nonne (4:43) ; An die Musik (3:05) ; Der Musensohn (2:15) / Schubert -- Sapphische Ode (2:47) ; Botschaft (2:08) / Brahms -- Um Mitternacht / Mahler (6:28)