Eileen Farrell
Eileen Farrell (1920-2002) was an American soprano, one of the great dramatic voices of the twentieth century. She sang opera, concert music, popular song and jazz with unusual breadth and natural vocal command.
In the Pristine catalogue she appears with Toscanini in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and with Victor de Sabata in New York Philharmonic broadcasts.
Farrell’s voice was huge, warm and free, capable of power without hardness...
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
Recorded 1952
Total duration: 65:06
Eileen Farrell, soprano
Nan Merriman, mezzo
Jan Peerce, tenor
Norman Scott, bass
Robert Shaw Chorale
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Arturo Toscanini
BARBER Overture, The School for Scandal
SCHUMANN Piano Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Prelude
WAGNER Parsifal - Prelude to Act I
WAGNER Parsifal - Good Friday Spell
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod
WAGNER Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene
Live concert recordings, 1951
Total duration: 2hr 26:35
Claudio Arrau, piano
Eileen Farrell, soprano
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
conducted by Victor de Sabata