Janet Baker

Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. Baker is particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which lasted 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 Berlioz's magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Baker was noted for her interpretations of the music of Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar. David Gutman, writing in Gramophone, described her performance of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder as "intimate, almost self-communing".

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Otto Klemperer (Remastered 2023, London 1960) - 2023-05-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Z. 626 by Dame Janet Baker - 2022-07-14T00:00:00.000000Z

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Live) - 2021-12-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Requiem Eterno: Memorie in Musica (Remastered 2021) - 2021-11-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Stokowski Edition, Vol. 4 (Live) - 2021-05-07T00:00:00.000000Z

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