Album
The Great EMI Recordings - English Songs: Dowland, Purcell, Arne, Parry, Stanford, Walton, Britten
2013Classical · Music
Tracks
- 12:29
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- 32:36
- 41:52
- 51:18
- 61:54
- 75:41
- 82:24
- 92:10
- 101:51
- 113:32
- 12A Dialogue between Charon and Philomel: "Charon! O gentle Charon! … What voice so sweet" (Philomel, Charon)Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kenneth Heath, George Malcolm & Dame Janet Baker4:20
- 13A Dialogue between Daphne and Strephon: "Come, my Daphne … 'Tis Strephon calls" (Strephon, Daphne)Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kenneth Heath, George Malcolm & Dame Janet Baker1:50
- 14Giù nei Tartari Regni, Duet, HWV 187: "Giù nei Tartarei regni v'andrem madonna" (Soprano, Bass)Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kenneth Heath, George Malcolm & Dame Janet Baker7:04
- 156:13
- 16Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday (Come Ye Sons of Art), Z. 323: No. 3, Duet, "Sound the trumpet, sound, till around" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Daniel Barenboim & Dame Janet Baker1:50
- 17Pausanias, the Betrayer of his Country, Incidental Music, Z. 585: No. 2, Song, "My dearest, my fairest" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Daniel Barenboim & Dame Janet Baker3:04
- 18The Maid's Last Prayer or Any Rather Than Fail, Incidental Music, Z. 601: No. 2, Song, "No, resistance is but vain" (Arr. for 2 Voices and Piano)Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Daniel Barenboim & Dame Janet Baker7:14
- 191:07
- 20English Lyrics, Set No. 2: No. 1, O Mistress Mine, "O mistress mine, where are you roaming?" (Allegretto)Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore1:31
- 21English Lyrics, Set No. 5: No. 2, Proud Maisie, "Proud Maisie is in the wood" (Allegretto)Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore1:47
- 22La Belle dame sans merci: "O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms"Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore6:10
- 23Linden Lea - A Dorset Song: "Within the woodlands, flow'ry gladed" (Andante con moto)Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore2:53
- 243 Songs, Op. 3: No. 1, Love's Philosophy, "The fountains mingle with the river" (Very quick and passionate)Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore1:28
- 25Songs Sacred and Profane: No. 4, The Salley Gardens, "Down by the Salley Gardens" (At speaking pace)Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore2:20
- 26The Fields Are Full: "The fields are full of summer still"Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore1:44
- 27Pretty Ring Time: "It was a lover and his lass"Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore1:22
- 28Rest: "On me to rest, my bird my bird"Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore2:16
- 29Corpus Christi Carol (Arr. for High Voice of the 5th Variation from "A Boy Was Born", Op. 3)Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore2:55
- 30Comin' Thro' the Rye (Children's Song, Arr. Robert Burns)Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore2:45
- 315 Shakespeare Songs: No. 1, Orpheus, "Orpheus with his lute made trees" (Allegro moderato)Dame Janet Baker & Gerald Moore3:38
- 32English Lyrics, Set No. 2: No. 1, O Mistress Mine, "O mistress mine, where are you roaming?" (Allegretto)Gerald Moore & Dame Janet Baker1:34
- 33Bushes and Briars, Roud 1027 (English Folksong from Essex, Unaccompanied Version)Gerald Moore & Dame Janet Baker2:55
- 345 Shakespeare Songs, Set No. 2, Op. 23: III. It was a lover and his lass (Allegretto moderato)Gerald Moore & Dame Janet Baker2:37
- 35Songs Sacred and Profane: No. 4, The Salley Gardens, "Down by the Salley Gardens" (At speaking pace)Gerald Moore & Dame Janet Baker2:16
- 36Irish Country Songs, Volume I: No. 7, I know where I'm goin' (Moderato)Gerald Moore & Dame Janet Baker2:25
- 375 Traditional Songs of France: III. Me soui mesocu danso, "Me suis mis en danse" (after Traditional from Quercy)Gerald Moore & Dame Janet Baker2:00
- 383:18
- 39Let Us Garlands Bring, on Poems by Shakespeare, Op. 18: V. It was a lover and his lassGerald Moore & Dame Janet Baker2:52
- 40Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes (Arr. Ronald Kinloch Anderson)Gerald Moore & Dame Janet Baker2:56
- 41Spring Symphony, Op. 44, Pt. 2: VIII. Out of the lawn lie in bad (Alto, Chorus)Sheila Armstrong, Dame Janet Baker, St. Clement Danes School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn, London Symphony Chorus & Robert Tear6:30
- 42Troilus and Cressida, Act 2 Scene 1: "How can I sleep?" (Cressida)Dame Janet Baker, Gerald English, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Lawrence Foster & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House1:45
- 43Troilus and Cressida, Act 2 Scene 1: "At the haunted end of the day" (Cressida)Dame Janet Baker, Lawrence Foster & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House2:41
- 44Troilus and Cressida, Act 3 Final Scene: "Diomede!... Father!... Pandarus!" (Cressida)Dame Janet Baker, Lawrence Foster & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House4:24