{"product_id":"janet-baker-a-celebration-cd-box-set","title":"Janet Baker - A Celebration: CD Box Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eDame Janet Baker is an artist who enjoyed seldom-matched success in the concert and recital halls as well as in the opera house – not to mention on disc. She could confidently traverse the entire territory between the well-thumbed volumes of arie antiche through the inexhaustible repertoires of German lieder, the French mélodie and English song, all of them addressed with extraordinary interpretative completeness. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf contemporary composers with whom she worked, undoubtedly the most important relationship was with Benjamin Britten who created numerous roles for her. In 1970 she was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). More honours followed – Dame Commander (DBE) in 1976 and member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 1993. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDame Janet’s command of language was legion. “She was, in all the languages she sang, one of the most thrilling and electrifying of word-singers, one whose command of vowels and consonants most illuminated what word-singing can be and why it matters,” wrote Max Loppert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo celebrate this milestone, this 21-CD limited edition collects together all the great British mezzo-soprano’s Philips, L’Oiseau-Lyre, Argo, Hyperion and Deutsche Grammophon recitals, as well as significant excerpts from Bach, Handel and Mozart operas and oratorios. Appearing for the first time, complete, are three Philips recordings made with Raymond Leppard – a Handel recital framed around the composer’s cantata La Lucrezia (1972), Haydn heroines Berenice and Arianna, coupled with music by Mozart (1973), and a Beethoven\/Schubert recital (1976). The collection also includes three recital discs she recorded for Hyperion of music by Schubert, Mahler and Fauré.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr\u003e\nREPERTOIRE\u003cbr\u003e\nCD 1    PURCELL Dido and Aeneas [1961]\u003cbr\u003e\nAnthony Lewis \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 2    ARIE AMOROSE (Italian Songs \u0026amp; Arias, arr. \u0026amp; ed. Simon Preston)\u003cbr\u003e\nNeville Marriner\u003cbr\u003e\nCAVALLI La Calisto (excerpts)\u003cbr\u003e\nRaymond Leppard\u003cbr\u003e\nRAMEAU Hippolyte et Aricie (excerpts)\u003cbr\u003e\nAnthony Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 3    HANDEL La Lucrezia; Arias from Ariodante · Atalanta · Hercules · Joshua · Rodelinda · Serse\u003cbr\u003e\nRaymond Leppard\u003cbr\u003e\nFIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 4    J.S. BACH\u003cbr\u003e\nSt Matthew Passion BWV 244 (excerpts)\u003cbr\u003e\nKarl Richter\u003cbr\u003e\nMass in B minor BWV 232 (excerpts)\u003cbr\u003e\nASMF \/ Neville Marriner\u003cbr\u003e\nHANDEL Judas Maccabaeus (excerpts)\u003cbr\u003e\nCharles Mackerras\u003cbr\u003e\nNEW COMPILATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 5    J.S. BACH\u003cbr\u003e\nSehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem BWV 159\u003cbr\u003e\nVergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust BWV 170\u003cbr\u003e\nASMF \/ Neville Marriner\u003cbr\u003e\nHerr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben BWV 102\u003cbr\u003e\nECO \/ Benjamin Britten\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nCD 6    VIVALDI Gloria in D RV 589\u003cbr\u003e\nDURANTE Magnificat a4 in B flat\u003cbr\u003e\nDavid Willcocks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 7    HANDEL Ariodante (excerpts)\u003cbr\u003e\nRaymond Leppard\u003cbr\u003e\nMOZART\u003cbr\u003e\nLa clemenza di Tito (excerpts); Così fan tutte (excerpts)\u003cbr\u003e\nColin Davis\u003cbr\u003e\nNEW COMPILATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 8    HAYDN Scena di Berenice; Arianna a Naxos\u003cbr\u003e\nMOZART Così fan tutte (excerpts); Abendempfindung; Das Veilchen\u003cbr\u003e\nRaymond Leppard (conductor, fortepiano)\u003cbr\u003e\nFIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 9    GLUCK Arias from Alceste · Armide · Iphigénie en Aulide · Iphigénie en Tauride · La Rencontre imprévue · Orfeo ed Euridice · Paride ed Elena\u003cbr\u003e\nRaymond Leppard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 10  BEETHOVEN Ah perfido!; No, non turbarti; Egmont (excerpts)\u003cbr\u003e\nSCHUBERT Arias from Alfonso und Estrella, Lazarus, Rosamunde; Ständchen (“Zögernd leise”)\u003cbr\u003e\nRaymond Leppard (conductor, piano)\u003cbr\u003e\nFIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 11  SCHUBERT Duets\u003cbr\u003e\nDietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 12  SCHUBERT Vocal Quartets\u003cbr\u003e\nElly Ameling, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 13  SCHUBERT Settings of Schiller \u0026amp; Goethe\u003cbr\u003e\nGraham Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\nFIRST RELEASE ON DECCA (ORIGINAL RELEASE ON HYPERION)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 14  MAHLER Songs of Youth\u003cbr\u003e\nGeoffrey Parsons\u003cbr\u003e\nFIRST RELEASE ON DECCA (ORIGINAL RELEASE ON HYPERION)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 15  MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde\u003cbr\u003e\nBernard Haitink\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 16  BERLIOZ Cléopâtre; Herminie; L’Enfance du Christ (excerpts); Béatrice et Bénédict (excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e\nColin Davis\u003cbr\u003e\nNEW COMPILATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 17  FAURÉ Mélodies, including La Chanson d’Ève\u003cbr\u003e\nGeoffrey Parsons\u003cbr\u003e\nFIRST RELEASE ON DECCA (ORIGINAL RELEASE ON HYPERION)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 18  RAVEL 3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé; Chansons madécasses\u003cbr\u003e\nCHAUSSON Chanson perpétuelle\u003cbr\u003e\nDELAGE 4 Poèmes hindous\u003cbr\u003e\nMelos Ensemble of London \/ Bernard Keeffe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 19  HOLST Sāvitri\u003cbr\u003e\nImogen Holst\u003cbr\u003e\nBRITTEN Phaedra\u003cbr\u003e\nSteuart Bedford\u003cbr\u003e\nBRITTEN The Rape of Lucretia (excerpts); Owen Wingrave (excerpt)\u003cbr\u003e\nBenjamin Britten\u003cbr\u003e\nEGK La Tentation de Saint Antoine\u003cbr\u003e\nWerner Egk\u003cbr\u003e\nNEW COMPILATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 20  TIPPETT A Child of our Time\u003cbr\u003e\nColin Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCD 21  PURCELL Dido and Aeneas [1977]\u003cbr\u003e\nSteuart Bedford \u003cbr\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recordstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49975746068722,"sku":"4854438","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0850\/1621\/5794\/files\/485_4438_287_29_Janet_Baker_4K_no_sticker.jpg?v=1787640143","url":"https:\/\/recordstero.shop\/products\/janet-baker-a-celebration-cd-box-set","provider":"recordstero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}