Dame 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".
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 1. Solo and Chorus, "Shake the Cloud from off Your Brow" (Belinda, Chorus) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 2. Song, "Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest, with Torment Not to Be Confest" (Dido) - No. 3. Recitative, "Grief Increasing by Concealing" (Belinda, Dido) - No. 4. Ch - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 5. Recitative, "Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?" (Dido, Belinda, Second Woman) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 6. Duet and Chorus, "Fear No Danger to Ensue" (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus) - Dance this Chorus, the Baske - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 7. Recitative, "See, your Royal Guest" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) - No. 8. Chorus, "Cupid Only" - No. 9. Recitative, "If not " - No. 10. Air, "Pursue Thy conq - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 13. Prelude for the Witches, "Wayward sisters" (Sorceress, First Witch) - No. 14. Chorus, "Harm's Our Delight" - No. 15. Recitative, "The Queen of - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 17. Recitative, "Ruin'd E're the Set of Sun?" (Witches, Sorceress) - No. 18. Chorus, "Ho ho" - No. 19. Duet, "But E're We this Perform" (Witches) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: No. 22. Ritornelle - No. 23. Song and Chorus, "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales" (Belinda, Chorus) - Dance - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 24. Song, "Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain" (Second Woman) - A Dance to Entertain Aeneas - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 25. Recitative, "Behold upon My Bending Spear" (Aeneas, Dido) - No. 26. Song and Chorus, "Haste to town this open field" (Belinda, Chorus) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 27. Recitative, "Stay, Prince, and Hear Great Jove's Command" (Spirit, Aeneas, Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch) - The Groves Dance - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: No. 28. Prelude, Song and Chorus, "Come Away, Fellow Sailors" (First Sailor, Chorus) - No. 29. The Sailors' Dance - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: No. 30. Recitative and Song, "See the Flags and Streamers Curling" (Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch) - No. 31. Chorus, "Destruction's our Deligh - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: No. 33. Recitative, "Your Councel All Is Urg'd in Vain" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: No. 34. Recitative, "But Death, Alas!" (Dido) - No. 35. Chorus, "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" - No. 36. Recitative, "Thy Hand, Belinda" ( - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: No. 38. Chorus, "With Drooping Wings" - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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The Tempest, Z. 631, Act I: No. 3. Song, "Arise Ye Subterranean Winds" (Spirit I) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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The Tempest, Z. 631, Act IV: No. 16. Recitative and Song, "Aeolus You Must Appear ... While These Pass O'er the Deep" (Neptune) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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The Tempest, Z. 631, Act IV: No. 17. Recitative and Song, "Your Awful Voice I Hear and Obey ... Come Down my Blusterers" (Aeolus) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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The Tempest, Z. 631, Act IV: No. 18. Song, "Halcyon Days, Now Wars Are Ending" (Amphitrite) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
Dame Janet Baker
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The Tempest, Z. 631, Act IV: No. 19. Song, "See the Heavens Smile" (Neptune) - Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason) -
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