Donizetti - Mary Stuart / Dame Janet Baker · Plowright · Rendall · Tomlinson · Opie · ENO · Sir Charles Mackerras
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Brand: BAKER,D/PLOWRIGHT,Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Chandos
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Mary Stuart: Prelude
- Mary Stuart: 'Let Us Wait Here'
- Mary Stuart: 'Yes, But The French Prince Is Seeking...'
- Mary Stuart: 'If Fortune One Day Should Send To Me...'
- Mary Stuart: 'In This Moment Of Rejoicing'
- Mary Stuart: 'May The Light Of Wisdom And Justice'
- Mary Stuart: 'But, Where Is The Earl Of Leicester'
- Mary Stuart: 'Did You Not Ask To See Me, Earlier Today?'
- Mary Stuart: I Remember Those Lovely Features'
- Mary Stuart: 'If She Dare Trust In Me'
- Mary Stuart: 'Do I Disturb You?'
- Mary Stuart: 'How Affecting. . . ' 'Is She Relenting?'
- Mary Stuart: 'When I First Looked Upon Her Face'
- Mary Stuart: 'My Arrogant Rival Has Long Sought To Rob Me'
- Mary Stuart: 'Why Run So Fast, My Lady?'
- Mary Stuart: 'You Murmuring Breezes...'
- Mary Stuart: 'What Tumult! Those Voices!'
- Mary Stuart: 'In The Peace Of My Gloomy Seclusion'
- Mary Stuart: 'Ah! May This Joy Not Deceive Me'
- Mary Stuart: 'Long By The World Forsaken'
- Mary Stuart: 'All Too Well I Surely Know Her!'
- Mary Stuart: 'What Place Is This Then?'
- Mary Stuart: 'Report Has Not Failed Me?'
- Mary Stuart: 'Bid Her Welcome!'
- Mary Stuart: 'Dead To Justice, Throne And Kingdom'
- Mary Stuart: 'Go, Prepare Yourself For Sentence'
- Mary Stuart: 'Still Pensive? Still Delaying?'
- Mary Stuart: 'While She's Living I'm Still In Danger'
- Mary Stuart: 'Your Highness!'
- Mary Stuart: 'You Have Conspired A Sister's Death'
- Mary Stuart: 'Elizabeth Will Continue To Mock And Insult Me'
- Mary Stuart: 'Oh Faithful Talbot!'
- Mary Stuart: 'Once All The Radiant Joys Of Youth'
- Mary Stuart: 'There Still Remains Another Charge'
- Mary Stuart: 'No, I Never Turned From My Saviour'
- Mary Stuart: 'Go, Leave This World Of Grief Behind'
- Mary Stuart: 'You Saw Them?'
- Mary Stuart: 'Hannah!' 'Do Not Disturb Her'
- Mary Stuart: 'Oh, Deign To Hear Our Prayer, Merciful Saviour!'
- Mary Stuart: 'The Signal'
- Mary Stuart: 'Death Hovers Near Me, So Take My Pardon'
- Mary Stuart: 'Leicester Approaches'
- Mary Stuart: 'Though You Once Made A Vow To Protect Me'
Music reviews of Donizetti - Mary Stuart / Dame Janet Baker · Plowright · Rendall · Tomlinson · Opie · ENO · Sir Charles Mackerras
Music Review: Nothing like this Dame
Rating: 5 Stars
I must come to the defense of my gal Janet, and take issue with the negative review below. No, I don't like Opera in English either, because what language doesn't sing better than English, and like the guy says, it highlights the unnatural speech. But don't take that out on Dame Janet- she's magnificent here.
Her portrayal is different from the other wonderful ones out there (Sills, Gencer, even Caballe have knocked this role out of the park)- more 'English" if you will forgive the use of nationalistic stereotypes. More subtle, more dignified and proper- even though the 'royal b@st@rd' curse is extremely dramatic, Dame Janet doesn't screech it like a sgualdrina on the streetcorner. She sounds like a noble lady who is scandalized that she herself is driven to utter such a word, even to her hated rival.
Not that I don't love the more traditionally Italiante performances, but they sometimes sound like imperious oepra divas, not so much British queens. Not that either is better.
While Dame Janet obviously doesn't sing the high notes that Sills and Sutherland do, she nails the high As and Gs. Big, solid, steady and beautifully formed-- and remember this is live. Again in the curse- "You have dishonored/The throne of England"-- the high note she hits for 'throne' would be the envy of most sopranos and would send most Elizabeths flying right over the battlements.
And as you can imagine, she makes that incredible last act into something really special (singing with no transposition I believe). No camp here: just full-on tragedy. THe prayer is moving, and the last stretta is agony. Love her!
Add to that Dame Janet's beautiful high pianissimi, her unimpeachable technique, always sensitive phrasing, and her highly intelligent attention to the text, and suddenly, the whole affair seems more like a Shakespearean history play (what with the English, and all the asides). The perfect combination of class and drama.
Plowright is also something-- her loudest notes often overwhelming the recording equipment. Her voice seems enormous, and the wheels sometimes leave the road just enough to make things exciting. Let's hear it for the gals who let (if not all, then at least some of) it hang out in an opera. Plowright sings her knickers off- sometimes she even sounds like Jessye Norman, (and I'm thinking, did she ever do Senta?) and while Eileen Farrell (on the Sills) will always by first in my heart, Plowright does a fine job.
This set is absolutely one to treasure, even if (perhaps especially if) you already own the Sutherland or Sills. Think of it as a fine compliment to those recordings.
In any event, I've had this recording for years, and I still get it out to listen to often. How many recordings can you say that about?
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Release Date: 22-JUN-1999
Donizetti and his librettists took some liberties with English history. The great confrontation between Mary Stuart and Queen Elizabeth I, which is the focus of the opera's second act, never took place. And it's a pity, too. It's great theater and would've been great history. This recording, taken from four live performances in London in 1982 in which Janet Baker sang the title role, carries a huge wallop. Baker is a superb Mary: proud but injured, enraged and indignant, pious and noble. Rosalind Plowright, with a voice as acidic and wild as Baker's is not, is a cruel Elizabeth. She's implacable and jealous. Their showdown is magnificent. The English of David Rendall and Alan Opie is more understandable than that of the ladies, and the men both turn in fine performances. Charles Mackerras is a superb leader. The orchestra and chorus are at their best for him. The fact that these were live performances adds to the passion for all concerned. --Robert Levine
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