English Songs

Janet Baker - English Songs

English Songs
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Artist: Janet Baker
Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully / Christoph W. Gluck
Composer: Benedetto Marcello
Composer: Lennox Berkeley
Composer: Gerald Finzi
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Composer: Henry Purcell
Composer: Peter Warlock
Performer: Geoffrey Parsons
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Music Label: BBC Legends
Soundtracks:
  1. O Del Mio Dolce Ardor
  2. Bois Epais
  3. Il Mio Bel Foco - Quella Fiamma Che M'accende
  4. Lauds (Among The Leaves)
  5. O Lurcher-Loving Collier
  6. What's In Your Mind, My Dove
  7. Eyes Look Into The Well
  8. Carry Her Over The Water
  9. Come Away, Come Away, Death
  10. Who Is Sylvia?
  11. Fear No More The Heat Of The Sun
  12. O Mistress Mine
  13. It Was A Lover And His Lass
  14. Let Beauty Awake
  15. Tired
  16. Silent Noon
  17. Linden Lea
  18. The Sally Gardens
  19. O Can Ye Sew Cushions?
  20. O Waly, Waly
  21. Come You Not From Newcastle?
  22. Sleep, Adam, Sleep And Take Thy Rest
  23. Lord, What Is A Man
  24. Sleep
  25. Pretty Ring Time
  26. Rest, Sweet Nymphs
  27. The Jolly Sheperd

Music reviews of English Songs

Music Review: A great singer fully at home in English songs
Rating: 5 Stars

Many of BBC Legends' releases have done service to expand what we know about major artists like Barbriolli, Tennstedt, and Horenstein. But Janet Baker's reputation has never needed any expansion or help. She was widely recorded in her prime. Standing back, it's amazing that she never made a bad recording; her level of performance was extraordinarily high in everything she touched. The voice was lustrous and used with intensity and emotional depth. Baker never sang a careless note or coasted through a score, whether one as slight as an English folksong or as great as the B minor Mass.

She was a great recitalist, not as lovable as de los Angeles or as charismatic as Schwarzkopf, perhaps, but fully their equal, which is the highest praise I can think of. On this BBC release we get most of the songs from 1983, with the addition of a few numbers by Purcell and Peter Warlock from 1968 (the two Purcell songs, "Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest" and "Lord, what is man?" are breathtaking examples of Baker's mastery). By the later date, twenty years into the fullness of her career, she showed some wear in opera, but with just a piano on stage the voice was as fresh as a young woman's (Baker was 49 at the time). A handful of Baroque songs begin the recital, but the rest is devoted to English songs from the twentieth century. No one was better in this music, with only Peter Pears and Kathleen Ferrier as equals. Baker began her career with an anthology of English songs on a tiny label, Saga, before she was fully launched by EMI, again in English songs. As familiar as she was in this material, nothing can diminish how touching, musical, and thoroughly involved she is here. Geoffrey Parsons provides sensitive accompaniments, and the sound is as good as if it came from the studio.

In short, there's every reason to welcome this CD with joy and appreciation -- highly recommended.

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