Helen Watts
Helen Watts (1927-2009) was a Welsh contralto, one of the most admired British lower voices of her generation. She was especially valued in Bach, Handel, Mahler and English music.
In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Horenstein’s Mahler, including the Third and Eighth Symphonies and related vocal-orchestral repertory.
Watts’s singing combined deep colour, steadiness and textual seriousness. Her voice could provide gravity wi...
MAHLER Symphony No. 3
MAHLER Kindertotenlieder*
MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen*
Live and *studio recordings, 1954* & 1961
Total duration: 2hr 10:39
Helen Watts, contralto
*Norman Foster, baritone
Highgate School Choir
Orpington Junior Singers
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
*Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Jascha Horenstein
MAHLER Symphony No. 8 in E flat Major ("Symphony of a Thousand")
WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer - Overture
WAGNER Tannhäuser - Bacchanale
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll Siegfried Idyll
Live and studio recordings, 1959 and 1962
Total duration: 2hr 1:13
Jascha Horenstein, conductor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
