Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk - Dame Janet Baker - Philips & Decca Recordings, 1961-1979 (Original Masters)
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Artist: Janet Baker, John Shirley-QuirkComposer: Ludwig van Beethoven / Johann S. Bach
Composer: Hector Berlioz / Giulio Caccini
Composer: Giovanni Bononcini
Composer: Benjamin Britten / Antonio Caldara
Conductor: Neville Marriner / Raymond Leppard
Conductor: Colin Davis
Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Performer: Graham Sheen
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Music Label: Philips
Music reviews of Dame Janet Baker - Philips & Decca Recordings, 1961-1979 (Original Masters)
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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