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Dame Janet Baker

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Dame Janet Baker (born August 21, 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. She was particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which spanned from the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and widely admired for her dramatic intensity, perhaps best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Hector Berlioz's magnum opus 'Les Troyens'.

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  1. Ave Maria
  2. Pergolesi: Ogni pena più spietata
  3. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 - "But Death alas!".."When I am laid in earth"
  4. Schubert: Ave Maria, D. 839, "Ellens Gesang III": "Ave Maria, Jungfrau mild!" (Sehr langsam)
  5. Linden Lea - A Dorset song
  6. SCHUBERT: AVE MARIA (Ellens Gesang III)
  7. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
  8. Così fan tutte, K. 588, Act 2: "E amore un ladroncello"
  9. Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III) D839
  10. Boom De De Boom
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  1. Ave Maria, D. 839, "Ellens Gesang III": "Ave Maria, Jungfrau mild!" (Sehr langsam)
  2. Fünf Lieder Op. 32: No. 3, Liebeshymnus (wds. K Henckell: orch 1897)
  3. Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen: III: Ich Hab' Ein Glühend Messer
  4. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Edited Margaret Laurie & Thurston Dart - Act 3 - When I am laid in earth
  5. Psalm 42, for chorus, soprano and orchestra Op. 42: 1. Chorus: Wie der Hirsch schraeit nach frischem Wasser
  6. O had I Jubal's lyre
  7. Der Jüngling am Bache, D30
  8. Les Nuits d'été Op. 7: 2. Le spectre de la rose
  9. An Sylvia D891
  10. When I am laid in earth
  11. Thekla, D73
  12. Sea Pictures Op. 37 (2004 Digital Remaster): I. Sea Slumber-Song (Roden Noel)
  13. Amalia, D195
  14. Wanderers Nachtlied (I), D224
  15. Balulalow (wds Wedderburn brothers after Luther)
  16. Where Corals Lie
  17. Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' BWV147, Part II: Chorale: Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, joy of man's desiring) (choir)
  18. Nähe des Geliebten, D162
  19. Quattro pezzi sacri (1997 Digital Remaster): Stabat mater (1896-97)
  20. Giordani: Caro mio ben
  21. Der Fischer, D225
  22. Sea Pictures Op. 37 (2004 Digital Remaster): II. In Haven (Capri) (C. Alice Elgar)
  23. J.S. Bach: Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust Cantata, BWV 170 - 1. Aria: Vergnügte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust
  24. Quattro pezzi sacri (1997 Digital Remaster): Laudi alla Vergine Maria (wds. Dante: c1890)
  25. Martini: Plaisir d'amour
  26. Dido & Aeneas
  27. Schäfers Klagelied, D121
  28. Requiem Op. 9 (version with organ) (2007 Digital Remaster): In paradisum
  29. Erster Verlust, D226
  30. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
  31. Handel: Serse, HWV 40 / Act 1 - "Frondi tenere e belle" - "Ombra mai fù"
  32. Sea Pictures Op. 37 (2004 Digital Remaster): IV. Where Corals Lie (Richard Garnett)
  33. Sea Pictures - II - In Haven - Capri
  34. Plaisir d'amour
  35. Caro mio ben
  36. Meeres Stille, D216
  37. Die Ervartung, D159
  38. Quattro pezzi sacri (1997 Digital Remaster): Te Deum (1895-96)
  39. Sea Slumber Song
  40. Le Spectre De La Rose (Nuits D'Ete Op7)
  41. Sea Pictures Op. 37 (2004 Digital Remaster): V. The Swimmer (A. Lindsay Gordon)
  42. Gloria in D, R.589 - Qui sedes ad dexteram
  43. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 1 - "Ah! Belinda, I am prest"
  44. In May, In Brilliant Athens
  45. Sabbath Morning at Sea
  46. Jerusalem
  47. Sea Pictures Op. 37 (2004 Digital Remaster): III. Sabbath Morning at Sea (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
  48. But death...When I am laid...With drooping wings...
  49. Sea Pictures - III - Sabbath Morning at Sea
  50. Schubert: Wiegenlied, D. 498: "Schlafe, schlafe"(Langsam)
  51. Lied, D284
  52. Um Mitternacht
  53. Meeres Stille D 216
  54. The Swimmer
  55. Auf dem Wasser zu singen D774
  56. Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 - "But Death alas!".."When I am laid in earth"
  57. Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 : "But Death alas!".."When I am laid in earth"
  58. Gloria in D, R.589 - Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
  59. "Dopo notte, atra e funesta"
  60. St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 / Part Two : No.47 Aria (Alto): "Erbarme dich, mein Gott"
  61. J.S. Bach: Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust Cantata, BWV 170 - 1. Aria: Vergnügte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust
  62. In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus
  63. Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria) D839
  64. Schubert: Wiegenlied "Schlafe, schlafe" D.498
  65. In Haven (Capri)
  66. Oh Gods Of Wrath
  67. My Time's Too Short, Your Highness
  68. Agnus Dei
  69. No.47 Aria (Alto): "Erbarme dich, mein Gott"
  70. An die Musik D547
  71. Dido and Aeneas - Edited Margaret Laurie & Thurston Dart - Act 3: When I am laid in earth
  72. Caccini: Amarilli mia bella
  73. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
  74. An den Frühling, D587
  75. Ah perfido!, Op.65
  76. Schäfers Klagelied D 121
  77. Piccinni: O notte o dea del mistero
  78. Sehnsucht, D636
  79. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 1 - "Whence could so much virtue spring?"
  80. Bless this House
  81. Wiegenlied (Schlafe, schlafe) D498
  82. No.10 Aria (Alto): "Buss und Reu"
  83. Britten: Phaedra, Op.93 - In May, in brilliant Athens
  84. Cesti: Intorno all'idol mio
  85. Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde - Der Einsame Im Herbst
  86. "Bramo aver mille vite..."
  87. Caldara: Sebben crudele mi fai languir'
  88. Schubert: Ständchen, D. 920
  89. Der Flücktling, D402
  90. Xerxes, HWV 40, Act 1: "Frondi tenere e belle" - "Ombra mai fù"

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