Janet Baker
Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. Baker is particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which lasted from the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and widely admired for her dramatic intensity, perhaps best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz's magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Baker was noted for her interpretations of the music of Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar. David Gutman, writing in Gramophone, described her performance of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder as "intimate, almost self-communing".
Genre: classical, opera, requiem
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Top Tracks
- Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2, Scene 7: Chorus. "Hallelujah"
- Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 3, Scene 1: Aria. "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
- Vaughan Williams: Hodie: III. Song. "It Was the Winter Wild"
- Serse, HWV 40 / Act 1: "Frondi tenere e belle...Ombra mai fù"
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37: No. 4, Where Corals Lie
- Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2, Scene 7: Chorus. "Hallelujah"
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37: No. 4, Where Corals Lie
- Mahler: Rückert Lieder: No. 2, Ich atmet' einen linden Duft!
- Cantata No. 169, BWV. 169 'Gott soll allein mein Herz haben': II. Arioso
- Magnificat (Formerly Attrib. Pergolesi): Et misericordia
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37: No. 4, Where Corals Lie
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37: No. 3, A Sabbath Morning at Sea
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37: No. 1, Sea Slumber-Song
- Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 4: How silently, how slyly (Caesar)
- Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Kneel in tribute, fair land of Egypt (Caesar)
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37: No. 2, In Haven. Capri
- Mahler: Kindertotenlieder: No. 2, Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
- Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Tyrant, avoid my sight (Caesar)
- Julius Caesar, HWV 17, Act I Scene 1: Curio, Caesar has come… (Caesar, Cornelia, Sextus, Achillas)
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37: No. 5, The Swimmer
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