Good Friday 2013
March 29, 2013
As a young person by main love was music. I studied piano gaining my letters at 16 years of age but my great love was singing. I was offered a scholarship at Sydney Conservatorium and thought this would be my life's career. But, it was not to be.
The first time I heard Kathleen Ferrier sing this aria "God have Mercy" from St. Matthew's Passion by Bach I cried. I had never heard anything so beautiful. It hold all of St.Peter's anguish at having denied his lord.
It is an old and scratchy recording but still beautiful.
Beautiful!
Posted by: Queeniepatch | March 29, 2013 at 10:52 AM
I love it.
Posted by: Carolyn Foley | March 29, 2013 at 01:22 PM
She had a wonderful voice, didn't she, although modern "historically-informed" performance practise doesn't get a look-in, does it!
Posted by: Rachel | March 29, 2013 at 09:11 PM