Dame Janet Baker

mezzo‐soprano and alto, United Kingdom, 1933 to present

Albums

Year Title Average Ratings
1960 A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1961 Dido and Aeneas
1965 Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures
1966 Des Knaben Wunderhorn
1967 Kindertotenlieder / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
1970 Bach: Magnificat D-Dur, BWV 243 / Bruckner: Te Deum
1974 Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
1974 Schubert: Vocal Quartets
1975 Das Lied von der Erde
1976 I Capuleti e i Montecchi
1977 L’Enfance du Christ
1977 Requiem
64 more releases
1978 Béatrice et Bénédict
1980 Cléopâtre / Herminie
1980 Matthäus-Passion
1981 Songs for Sunday
1983 Mahler’s Songs of Youth
1983 Savitri / Choral Hymns From The Rig Veda (3rd Group)
1985 Exsultate, jubilate / Ch'io mi scordi di te? / Le Nozze di Figaro / La Clemenza di Tito
1987 Symphony no. 2 “Resurrection”
1987 Kindertotenlieder / 5 Rückertlieder / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
1987 La clemenza di Tito
1987 The Hyperion Schubert Edition, Volume 1: Goethe & Schiller Settings
1988 Symphony no. 3 / Rückert-Lieder
1988 Symphony no. 2, "Resurrection"
1988 Julius Caesar
1988 Les Nuits d'été / La Mort de Cléopâtre / Les Troyens: Mort de Didon
1989 Le Messie
1989 La Chanson d'Eve and Other Songs
1990 Mass in B minor
1990 Janet Baker sings Handel: Largo: Ombra mai fù / Cantata « Lucrezia »
1992 British Composers: A Mass of Life / Songs of Sunset / An Arabesque
1992 Arie Amorose
1992 Orfeo ed Euridice
1993 St. Matthew Passion: Highlights
1995 Das klagende Lied
1995 Orff: Catulli Carmina / Egk: La Tentation de Saint Antoine
1996 Debussy: La Mer / Chausson Poème de l’amour et de la mer / Ravel: Scheherazade
1996 Lieder
1996 Orchestral Songs
1996 Weihnachts-Oratorium
1997 Fauré: Requiem / Pavane / Duruflé: Requiem
1997 From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
1998 Symphony no. 9: Das Lied von der Erde
1999 The Dream of Gerontius
1999 Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes / Tchaikovsky / Rossini: Songs & Duets
1999 Elijah
1999 Mary Stuart
1999 Janet Baker Sings Scenes from Julius Caesar
2000 Haydn: Arianna a Naxos / Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben / Schubert / Wolf / R. Strauss
2000 Lieder
2001 Mass in B minor
2001 Solo Cantatas / Vocal Works
2001 Mary Stuart (Highlights)
2002 Duette · Terzette · Quartette
2003 The Dream of Gerontius
2003 Philips And Decca Recordings 1961-1979
2004 Cantatas nos. 170, 82 & 159
2004 Opera Arias
2005 St Matthew Passion: Arias, Recitatives and Choruses
2006 Dame Janet Baker Sings Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
2006 Serenades Nos. 1 & 2, Haydn Variations, Academic Festival Overture, Tragic Overture, Alto Rhapsody
2007 La Damnation de Faust / La Mort de Cléopâtre
2007 Lieder
2007 Symphony no. 10 Adagio / Kindertotenlieder
2008 Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
2010 Aretusa / Lauda per la Natività del Signore / Il tramonto / Trittico Botticelliano
2012 Troilus and Cressida
2014 Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda / Savitri / Seven Partsongs / The Evening Watch
2016 A Child of Our Time
2018 Owen Wingrave
2019 La Calisto
2019 Hippolyte et Aricie
2021 Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 6, 9 & Lieder
Janet Baker Sings Schumann, Schubert and Brahms
The Dream of Gerontius

Live

Year Title Average Ratings
1992 Cantate BWV 147, 3 Motets
1995 Das Lied von der Erde
1996 BBC Music, Volume 4, Number 7: Janet Baker & Raymond Leppard: A Recital From the Aldeburgh Festival, 1971
1999 Rodelinda
2001 Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer / Berlioz: Les nuits d'été / Schoenberg: Song of the Wood Dove
2001 Symphony no. 9 / Kindertotenlieder
2001 Lieder / Sehnsucht / Das Rosenband / Abendstern / Der Musensohn
2002 Baker
2002 Bruckner: Symphony no. 8 / Wagner: Tristan and Isolde: Prelude to Act I / Wesendonck Lieder
2002 Symphonie 2 "Auferstehung"
2003 Das Lied von der Erde
2004 Symphony no. 6 / Te Deum
4 more releases
2004 Symphony no. 2 “Resurrection”
2010 The Coronation of Poppea
2014 Alceste, Wq. 44 (Sung in French) [Live Recordings 1981]
2021 Das Lied von der Erde