Ferrier, Kathleen.

showing Ferrier and Walter together, signed inscribed by both artists to their agent Peter Diamand ("To Peter, in gratitude for all your kindnesses, Love Kathleen. Bruno Walter"), overall size c.17.5 x 22.7cm, framed and glazed, no place or date, small crease at upper right-hand corner; together with black-and-white photographs of Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Flora Nielsen, Teresa Berganza, Solti, Barenboim, Boulez, Wolfgang Wagner, Carlo Zecchi, Frank Glazer, Otakar Kraus, Nancy Evans, Norman Platt, Joan Cross, Jennifer Vyvyan, Margaret Ritchie, Anne Sharp and many others associated with the Aldeburgh Festival, a number with Peter Diamand; together with a concert program signed and inscribed by Rostropovich, c.1950s-1960s

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This year marks the centenary of the birth of Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953).  This fine photograph recalls the important collaboration between Ferrier and Bruno Walter, most notably in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (of which there is a celebrated recording) and in the Lieder recitals they gave together, until Ferrier's early death in 1953.