Janet Baker

Janet Baker in 1967 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". Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Baker, Janet, 1933-
    Published 1982
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    by Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
    Published 1996
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    by Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
    Published 1987
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    by Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
    Published 1991
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    by Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
    Published 1979
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    by Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934
    Published 1991
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    Published 1967
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    by Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934
    Published 1998
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    by Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
    Published 1986
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    by Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695
    Published 1962
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    by Delius, Frederick, 1862-1934
    Published 1969
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    by Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
    Published 1987
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    by Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643
    Published 2010
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    by Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
    Published 2000
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    Published 2005
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    Published 1974
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    Published 2009
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