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About the artist Janet Baker

A singer's career brings many challenges, not the least of them being the balancing act involved in a professional life divided between opera and song. English mezzo-soprano Janet Baker brought it off with notable success in a career that was well-judged from start to finish. She went carefully at first, establishing herself as a concert and oratorio singer and winning special acclaim when she appeared on stage in operas by Handel. During her career, which spanned the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and widely admired for her dramatic intensity.

CDs and DVDs featuring the artist Janet Baker

CATALOGUE NR: BBCL40862  (barcode: 0684911408621)
RECORD LABEL: BBC Legends
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 16.60
RELEASE DATE: 11-Feb-2002

COMPOSER: Anton Bruckner  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Symphony No.8 (Bruckner). Tristan und Isolde Prelude to Act 1. Wesendonck Lieder (Wagner).
ORCHESTRA: BBC Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Reginald Goodall
ARTISTS: Janet Baker      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1969 & 1971

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CATALOGUE NR: SBT1354  (barcode: 0749677135423)
RECORD LABEL: Testament
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.29
RELEASE DATE: 13-Oct-2004

COMPOSER: Anton Bruckner
TRACKS: Symphony No.6 in A. Te Deum in C.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Otto Klemperer
ARTISTS: Heather Harper   Janet Baker   Richard Lewis   Marian Nowakowski

- Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 2282842  (barcode: 5099922828422)
RECORD LABEL: EMI Classics for Pleasure
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 4.99
RELEASE DATE: 07-Jul-2008

COMPOSER: Antonio Vivaldi  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Gloria in D RV589 : Gloria in excelsis Deo / Et in terra pax hominibus / Laudamus te / Gratias agimus / Propter magnam gloriam / Domine Deus / Domine Fili unigenite / Domine Deus Agnus Dei / Qui tollis peccata mundi / Qui sedes ad dexteram / Quoniam tu solus sanctus / Cum Sancto Spiritu (Vivaldi ed. Malipiero). Magnificat in D BWV243 : Magnificat - chorus / Et exultavit / Quia respexit / Omnes generationes / Quia fecit mihi magna / Et misericordia / Fecit potentiam / Deposuit potentes / Esurientes implevit bonis / Suscepit Israel / Sicut locutus est / Gloria. Cantata No.147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' BWV147 : Chorale: Jesus bleibet meine Freude - Jesu joy of man's desiring. Zion hort die Wachter singen Cantata No.140. Schafe konnen sicher weiden - Sheep may safely graze Cantata No.108. Bist du bei mir (attrib. JS Bach BWV508 from the notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach). Ave Maria (JS Bach / Gounod).
ORCHESTRA: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
CONDUCTOR: Neville Marriner and David Willcocks
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Barbara Hendricks   South German Madrigal Choir   King's College Cambridge Choir

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CATALOGUE NR: 4256662  (barcode: 0028942566620)
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 25.54

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: The Rape of Lucretia op.37 (complete). Phaedra - mezzo-soprano and ensemble op.93.
ORCHESTRA: English Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Peter Pears   Heather Harper   Benjamin Luxon

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'the seductive beauty of the writing - Britten then at his peak - is caught splendidly, the melodies and tone-colours as ravishing as any he ever conceived'

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CATALOGUE NR: 0927490102  (barcode: 0809274901026)
RECORD LABEL: Elatus
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 28-Oct-2002

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: Rescue of Penelope. Phaedra op.93
ORCHESTRA: Halle Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Kent Nagano
ARTISTS: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson   Janet Baker   Alison Hagley   John Mark Ainsley

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 2564682893  (barcode: 0825646828937)
RECORD LABEL: Warner Classics
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 19-Apr-2010

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck
TITLE: Orfeo Ed Euridice - complete
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Raymond Leppard
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Elisabeth Speiser   Elizabeth Gale   Glyndebourne Chorus

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CATALOGUE NR: BBCL41172  (barcode: 0684911411720)
RECORD LABEL: BBC Legends
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.75
RELEASE DATE: 31-Mar-2003

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: O del mio dolce ardor (Gluck). Bois epaos (Lully). Il mio bel foco (Marcello). Five Auden Poems (Berkeley). Let us Garlands Bring (Finzi). Let Beauty Awake / Tired / Silent Noon / Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams). The Salley Gardens / O can ye suw cushions / O Waly Waly. Come ye not from Newcastle (Folk Sons arr. Britten). Sleep Adam Sleep / Lord what is man? (Purcell). Sleep / Pretty Ring Time / Rest sweet nymphs / The Jolly Shepherd (Warlock).
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Geoffrey Parsons    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 4-Jul-1983 / 10-Jun-1968 - Jul-2003 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: 2292458642  (barcode: 0022924586422)
RECORD LABEL: Erato
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 16.99
RELEASE DATE: 16-Nov-1992

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck
TITLE: Orfeo ed Euridice - complete
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Raymond Leppard
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Elizabeth Gale   Elisabeth Speiser   Glyndebourne Chorus

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 2564614972  (barcode: 0825646149728)
RECORD LABEL: Apex Opera
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 4.99
RELEASE DATE: 14-Jun-2004

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck
TITLE: Orfeo ed Euridice - highlights
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Raymond Leppard
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Elisabeth Speiser   Elizabeth Gale   Glyndebourne Chorus

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CATALOGUE NR: 5046739212  (barcode: 5050467392120)
RECORD LABEL: Warner Vision
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 18.95
RELEASE DATE: 02-Aug-2004

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck
TITLE: Orfeo ed Euridice - complete
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Raymond Leppard
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Elisabeth Speiser   Elizabeth Gale  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC / Duration: 130 minutes / Recorded: 1982 Glynbourne - Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4762617  (barcode: 0028947626176)
RECORD LABEL: Australian Eloquence
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 7.50

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck
TITLE: Arias
TRACKS: Armide : Le perfide Renaud me fuit. Iphigenie en Aulide : Vous essaynez en vain - Par la crainte. Iphigenie en Tauride : Non cet affreux devoir. Iphigenie en Aulide : Adieu conservez dans votre ame. Alceste : Divinites du Styx. La Recontre Imprevue : Bel inconnu / Je cherche a vous faire. Paride ed Elena : Spiagge amate / Oh del mio dolce ardour / Le belle immagini / Di te scordarmi. Orfeo ed Euridice : Che puro ciel / Che faro senza Euridice.
ORCHESTRA: English Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Raymond Leppard
ARTISTS: Janet Baker      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded London Apr-1975

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CATALOGUE NR: 101101  (barcode: 0807280110197)
RECORD LABEL: Arthaus Musik
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 14.99
RELEASE DATE: 28-Nov-2005

COMPOSER: Claudio Monteverdi
TITLE: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria - complete
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Bernard Haitink
ARTISTS: Benjamin Luxon   Janet Baker   Anne Howells   Ian Caley

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 4:3 / Sound Format: PCM Stereo / Region Code: 0 / Duration: 176 minutes / Recorded: 1973 Glyndebourne Festival - Feb-2006 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: CHAN3172  (barcode: 0095115317228)
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 16.99
RELEASE DATE: 01-Jun-2010

COMPOSER: Claudio Monteverdi
TITLE: The Coronation of Poppea - complete
ORCHESTRA: Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Raymond Leppard
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Robert Ferguson   Anne Collins   Clifford Grant

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: sung in English recorded live 1971 - Aug-2010 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: BBCL42182  (barcode: 0684911421828)
RECORD LABEL: BBC Legends
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 10.75
RELEASE DATE: 28-Aug-2007

COMPOSER: Claudio Monteverdi  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Janet Baker
TRACKS: Quel squardo sdegnosetto / Si dolce e'l tormento / Maledettosia l'aspetto (Monteverdi). Velut palma velut rosa (Gratiani). Devine Hymn: Jehovah Reigns (Barringcloe). Wilt thou forgive that sin - A Hymne to God (Humfrey). O lead me to some peaceful gloom / Pursuing Beauty / Ah! Cruel bloody fate (Purcell). Schwestergruss / Ariette 'Liebe schwarmt' / Ariette 'Hin und her fliegen Pfeile' / An die untergehende Sonne / Herrn Josef Spaun Assessor in Linz (Schubert). Mandoline / En Sourdine / Soir / Fleur jetee (Faure). Serenade (Gounod). O had I Jubal's lyre (Handel). Janet Baker in Conversation with Marjorie Anderson.
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Raymond Leppard   Joy Hall  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded Aldeburgh Festival 14-Jun-1971 / BBC Studios London 22-Oct-1969 - interview - Mar-2008 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: SBT1321  (barcode: 0749677132125)
RECORD LABEL: Testament
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 11.29

COMPOSER: Domenico Scarlatti  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Janet Baker
TRACKS: Salve regina (Domenico Scarlatti arr. Leppard). L'incronozione di Poppea : Disprezzata Regina - Ottavia's Lament / Addio Roma - Ottavia's farewell. L'Arianna : Lasciatemi morire - Ariadne's Lament (Claudio Monteverdi arr.Leppard). Cantata Pastorale (Alessandro Scarlatti). A Dialogue un a kiss (Henry Lawes). A Dialogue between Charon and Philomel. A Dilaogue betwwn Daphne and Strephon (William Lawes). Giu nei Tartarei regni v'andrem madonna. Quando in calma ride il mare (George Frideric Handel).
ORCHESTRA: English Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Raymond Leppard
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   George Malcolm   Kenneth Heath   Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1970-1971

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CATALOGUE NR: 5735792  (barcode: 0724357357920)
RECORD LABEL: EMI British Composers
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 06-Sep-1999

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar
TITLE: The Dream of Gerontius - complete
ORCHESTRA: Halle Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: John Barbirolli
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Kim Borg   Richard Lewis   Ambrosian Singers

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: remastered - Apr-2000 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 3 star 'Barbirolli's red-blooded reading of Gerontius is the most heart-warmingly dramatic ever recorded'

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CATALOGUE NR: 5665402  (barcode: 0724356654020)
RECORD LABEL: EMI British Composers
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 05-Oct-1998

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar
TITLE: Dream of Gerontius
TRACKS: The Music Makers.
ORCHESTRA: New Philharmonia Orchestra and London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Adrian Boult
ARTISTS: Nicolai Gedda   Helen Watts   Robert Lloyd   Janet Baker

- Jan-1999 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide Rosette star 'it is technically, as well as musically, a truly great recording'

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CATALOGUE NR: LPO0046  (barcode: 0854990001468)
RECORD LABEL: LPO
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 8.45
RELEASE DATE: 01-Jun-2010

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar
TRACKS: Symphony No.1 in A flat op.55. Sea Pictures op.37.
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Vernon Handley
ARTISTS: Janet Baker      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: broadcast recordings from Capital Radio 1984 - Sunday Times Top Album of 2010

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CATALOGUE NR: LPO00160020  (barcode: 0854990001161)
RECORD LABEL: LPO
FORMAT: 5 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 34.72
RELEASE DATE: 02-Apr-2007

COMPOSER: Edward Elgar
TITLE: London Philharmonic plays Elgar
TRACKS: Symphony No.1 in A flat op.55. Symphony No.2 in E flat op.63. Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' op.36. Sea Pictures op.37. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor op.61. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor op.85. Falstaff op.68. The Sanguine Fan. Introduction and Allegro op.47. Chanson de Nuit op.15/1. Chanson de Matin op.15/2. Froissart Overture op.19. Elegy for String Orchestra op.58. Cockaigne 'In Londown Town' op.40. Contrasts from Three Characteristic Pieces op.10/3. Coronation March op.65. Serenade for Strings in E minor op.20.
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Paul Tortelier   Alfredo Campoli  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: vital recordings across the London Philharmonic's 75 year history featuring Edward Elgar / Landon Ronald / Adrian Boult / Georg Solti / Charles Mackerras / Vernon Handley

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CATALOGUE NR: 3919782  (barcode: 0094639197828)
RECORD LABEL: EMI Great Recordings
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 7.99
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RELEASE DATE: 10-Sep-2007
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COMPOSER: Edward Elgar
TRACKS: The Music Makers op.69. The Dream of Gerontius op.38.
ORCHESTRA: London Philharmonic and Halle Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Adrian Boult and John Barbirolli
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Richard Lewis    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded 1966 and 1964 - Dec-2007 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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