Dame Janet Baker Philips and Decca Recordings, 1961-1979 (Limited Edition)

Dame Janet Baker Philips and Decca Recordings, 1961-1979 (Limited Edition)

Dame Janet Baker Philips and Decca Recordings, 1961-1979 (Limited Edition)
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Intorno all'idol mio
  2. Spesso vibra per suo gioco
  3. Gi? il sole dal Gange
  4. Act 1. Ogni pena pi? spietata
  5. O notte, o dea del mistero
  6. Nel cor pi? non mi sento
  7. Ardo, sospiro e piango
  8. Ascender qui ved'io
Music CD 2
  1. O numi eterni!
  2. Gi? superbo del mio affanno
  3. Ma voi forse nel cielo
  4. Il suol che preme
  5. Ah! Che ancor nell'abisso
  6. Questi la disperata anima mia
  7. A voi, a voi, padre, consorte
  8. Gi? nel seno comincia
  9. Sento ch'il cor
  10. Pompe vane di morte!...Dove sei, amato bene?
  11. Frondi tenere e belle...Ombra mai fu
  12. Where shall I fly!
  13. Care selve
  14. Oh! had I Jubal's lyre
  15. Oh! Felice mio core!...Con l'ali di constanza
  16. E vivo ancora?...Scherza infida in grembo al drudo
  17. Dopo notte
  18. Aria. Vergn?gte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust
  19. But death, alas!...When I am laid in earth...With drooping wings
Music CD 3
  1. Scena di Berenice
  2. Deh se piacer mi vuoi...Chi ciecamente crede
  3. Non pi? di fiori...Infelice! qual orrore!
  4. Ah, scostati!...Smanie implacabili
  5. Aria. So schlummert auf Rosen
Music CD 4
  1. Cruelle m?re des amours
  2. Quelle plainte en ces lieux m'appelle?
  3. Che far? senza Euridice?
  4. Che puro ciel, che chiaro sol
  5. Divinit?s du Styx
  6. C'en est donc fait!
  7. Ah! qu'ils sont loin
  8. M?ditation: Grands Pharaons
  9. Non!...non, de vos demeures fun?bres -
  10. Dieux du Nil
  11. R?cit. Quel trouble te poursuit
  12. Air. Ah! Si de la tendresse
  13. R?cit. Que dis-je?
  14. Air. Arr?tte! Arr?te! Cher Tancr?de -
  15. R?cit. Que Clorinde est heureuse!
  16. Air. Venez, venez, terribles armes!
  17. Pri?re. Dieu des chr?tiens! -
  18. Venez, venez, terribles armes!
  19. Non! Que viens-je d'entendre?...Il m'en souvient...Je l'aime donc?
Music CD 5
  1. Soupir
  2. Placet futile
  3. Surgi de la croupe et du bond
  4. Nahandove
  5. Aoua!
  6. Il est doux de se coucher, durant la chaleur
  7. Madras: Une Belle
  8. Lahore: Un sapin isol?
  9. B?nar?s: Naissance de Bouddha
  10. Jeypur: Si vous pensez ? elle
  11. Lucretia! Lucretia!...
  12. Last night Tarquinus ravished me
  13. Ah, Owen, what shall I do?
  14. In May, in brilliant Athens
  15. Oh Gods of wrath
  16. My time's too short, your highness

Music reviews of Dame Janet Baker Philips and Decca Recordings, 1961-1979 (Limited Edition)

Music Review: Essential Performances from a Great & Beloved Singer
Rating: 5 Stars

For those of us who grew up on Janet Baker's recordings (and were lucky enough to hear her "live" as well), the sound of her voice and her singular artstic personality - British restraint coupled with fierce emotional and spiritual commitment - are indelibly imprinted in our minds and hearts. The closest current equivalent is Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, another superb artist who has charted her own course, and not surprisingly there is some overlap of repertoire, in the music of J.S. Bach, of course, but also Berlioz's Didon and Beatrice, Handel's Ariodante and Britten's Phaedra (composed for Baker).
This wonderful compilation is complementary to EMI's 2-CD "The Very Best of Janet Baker" -- no overlap of repertoire whatsoever. Unlike that set, which focused on concert repertoire (with orchestra or piano) there's a generous sampling here of Baker's operatic roles including Handel, Mozart, Purcell, Rameau, Gluck, and Britten. Also welcome is "Phaedra," one of Britten's strongest late works. And it's good to have the Berlioz: "Cleopatre" and "Herminie" complete, the big aria from "Beatrice et Benedict." (Why EMI included nothing from her recording of the last 2 scenes of "Les Troyens" is unfathomable.) The wide time-span allows us to hear Baker's voice in all its youthful, "sappy" warmth, as well as in its artistic maturity (though truth to tell she was pretty much a complete artist from the start). There are a few signs of wear in later items, nothing serious, in fact rather less than I remembered. I could have done with fewer of the "Arie Amorose" in favor of more cuts from her Gluck LP, which I believe has never been issued complete on CD, but that's just personal preference. The focus here is entirely on orchestrally accompanied works (or, in the case of the marvelous early disc of Ravel, Chausson & Delage songs, with chamber ensemble) so for Baker the supreme interpreter of English, German and French song you'll need to go elsewhere (the EMI has a fair sampling, especially of her Schubert). But everything here is indispensible.

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