Artist in Focus: Janet Baker
I n the year of her 70th birthday, Brian Kay talks to distinguished mezzo Janet Baker about her career and musical passions. With recordings from the BBC archives. Handel 0 Numi Eterni (La Lucrezia) With Bernard Richards (cello) and Raymond Leppard (harpsichord)
Britten Canticle No 2: Abraham and Isaac
With Peter Pears (tenor) and Graham Johnson (piano)
Schubert Der Sieg , D805; Abendstern 0806; Atys, D585
With Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Eigar Sea Pictures, Op 37 With the BBCSO conducted by James Loughran