MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Icon: Janet Baker - The Beloved Mezzo (5 CD set)
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Icon: Janet Baker - The Beloved Mezzo (5 CD set)
Janet Baker (contralto) with various orchestras & conductors
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 5 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 November 2008
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
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.
"this is a treasurable set" Penguin Guide
Tracks:
Bach, J S:
Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug'
Arias and recits from "Christmas oratorio"
St John Passion, BWV 245 (excerpts)
Berlioz:
Les Nuits D'été, Op. 7
Brahms:
Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53
Chausson:
Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Op. 19
Elgar:
Sea Pictures, Op. 37
Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul (from The Dream of Gerontius)
Handel:
Messiah: He was despised
Selected Italian cantatas Nos. 1 & 13
Liszt:
Lieder
Mahler:
Kindertotenlieder
Rückert-Lieder
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Urlicht (from Symphony No. 2)
Ravel:
Shéhérazade
Schubert:
Selected Lieder
Schumann:
Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42
Strauss, R:
Liebeshymnus, Op. 32 No. 3
Das Rosenband, Op. 36 No. 1
Ruhe, meine Seele!, Op. 27 No. 1
Wagner:
5 Wesendonk Lieder
Der Engel / Stehe still / Im Treibhaus / Schmerzen / Traume
and works by Dowland, Campion, Purcell, Boyce, Monro & Ame
