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Performance on 3: Celebrating Dame Janet Baker: Britten and English Music

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1/5. Iain Burnside presents a week of recordings by one of England's best-loved mezzos, Janet Baker.
With contributions from Janet Baker and some of the people with whom she has worked.
See David Gillard's Choices for Wednesday and Thursday on pages 128 and 130.

Elgar Sabbath Morning at Sea (Sea Pictures)

Britten Canticle No 2: Abraham and Isaac

Purcell Dido's Lament (Dido and Aeneas)

Britten Lucretia!... Last Night Tarquinius Ravished Me (The Rape of Lucretia)

Walton Slowly It All Comes Back (Troilus and Cressida)

Elgar The Angel's Farewell (The Dream of Gerontius)

Britten Phaedra

Plus songs by Warlock, Howells, Gurney, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Britten and Quilter.

Contributors

Presenter:
Iain Burnside
Interviewee:
Dame Janet Baker
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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