Janet Baker
About the artist
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'.
Top songs
- Ich Bin Der Weit Abhanden Gekommen (Gustav Mahler)
- Ich Bin Der Weit Abhanden Gekommen (I Have Lost Track Of The World) (Gustav Mahler)
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I Have Lost Track of the World)
- Ich bin der Weit abhanden gekommen
- Boom De De Boom
- Ich Bin Der Weit Abhanden Gekommen (I Have Lost the Track of the World)
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
- i have lost the track of the world
- Ave Maria
- Dido And Aeneas, "Dido's Lament"
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- Ich Bin Der Weit Abhanden Geko
- Dido & Aeneas - When I am laid in earth
- Schubert: Ellens Gesang #3, Op. 52/6, D 839, "Ave Maria"
- Ich Bin Der Weit Abhanden Gekommen (I Have Lost Track Of The World)
- Villanelle
- Dido & Aeneas
- Les Troyens Act V scene 2 (conclusion)
- (Ich Bin Der Weit Abhanden Gekommen (Gustav Mahler)
- St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: No. 47, Aria, 'Erbarme dich, mein Gott'
- Schubert: Ave Maria, Op. 52/6, D 839
- Gounod: Ave Maria
- Kindertotenlieder: Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle flammen
- Linden Lea
- Le Spectre de le rose
- Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen (Gustav Mahler)
- Act 1: Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow
- Act 3: But Death, Alas!... When I Am Laid In Earth
- Act 2, Scene 1: Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun?
- Sea pictures op 37 : 2. In haven (Capri)
- Dido and Aeneas, opera, Z. 626: Act 3: "But Death, alas!... When I am laid in earth"
- I Have Lost Track Of The World
- Act 1: Ah... Belinda I Am Prest With Torment
- Act 1: Fear No Danger To Ensue
- Act 1: Overture
- Act 1: Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring
- Act 2, Scene 1: Prelude For The Witches, Wayward Sisters
- Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
- La Mort de Cleopatre , Scene lyrique pour voix et orchestre
- シューベルト:アヴェ・マリア(デイム・ジャネット・ベイカー、ジェラルド・ムーア)
- Act 2, Scene 2: Ritornelle, Thanks To These Lonesome Vales
- Act 1: See, Your Royal Guest Appears
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (Sung in English): Act I Scene 1: Tyrant, avoid my sight (Caesar)
- Act 2, Scene 2: Stay, Prince, And Hear Great Jove's Command
- Um Mitternacht
- Act 2, Scene 2: Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain
- Kindertotenlieder: In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (Sung in English): Overture
- Act 3: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain
- Kindertotenlieder: Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
- Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I Have Lost Track of the World) (Gustav Mahler)
- Act 2, Scene 2: Behold, Upon My Bending Spear
- Balulalow
- Cantata No. 140, BWV 140, 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme': I. "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
- Act 3, Prelude: Come Away, Fellow Sailors
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (Sung in English): Act I Scene 1: Caesar! Caesar! Egypt acclaims thee (Chorus)
- Where Corals Lie
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - 2. In Haven (Capri)
- In Haven (C. Alice Elgar)
- Act 3: With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (Sung in English): Act I Scene 1: Kneel in tribute, fair land of Egypt (Caesar)
- Kindertotenlieder: Wenn dein Mutterlein tritt zur Tur herein
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - 4. Where Corals Lie
- Sea Slumber Song (Roden Noel)
- A Thanksgiving
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (Sung in English): Act I Scene 4: How silently, how slyly (Caesar)
- Act 3: See The Flags And Streamers Curling
- Orfeo ed Euridice: Che faro senza
- Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Euridice), Wq. 30 / Act 3 - "Che farò senza Euridice?"
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - 5. The Swimmer
- Come Sing and Dance
- Stölzel: Bist Du Bei Mir
- Sabbath Morning At Sea (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
- Ich atmet' einen linden Duft!
- Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Euridice), Wq. 30 / Act 3: "Che farò senza Euridice?"
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (Sung in English): Act I Scene 1: Curio, Caesar has come … (Caesar, Cornelia, Sextus, Achillas)
- Janet Baker - Ich Bin Der Weit Abhanden gekommen(I Have Lost Track Of The World)
- When I Am Laid In Earth
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - 1. Sea Slumber, Song
- Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - 3. Sabbath Morning At Sea
- Kindertotenlieder: Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
- アヴェ・マリア [シューベルト]
- Che faro senza Euridice
- Where Corals Lie (Richard Garnett)
- Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
- Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
- Absence
- A Piper
- To the Queen of Heaven
- Youth
- The Swimmer (A. Lindsay Gordon)
- King David
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (Sung in English): Act I Scene 1: Mother! Cornelia! (Sextus, Curio, Cornelia)
- Prison
- Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
- Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
- Villanelle (Les Nuits D'Ete Op7)
- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz
- Lied, D284
- Corpus Christi Carol (Britten)
- Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (Sung in English): Act I Scene 2: Yet why despair? (Cleopatra)
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