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The Great EMI Recordings - English Songs: Dowland, Purcell, Arne, Parry, Stanford, Walton, Britten

Dame Janet Baker/Robert Spencer, Spencer (lute), Robert Spencer (lute), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano vocals), Dame Janet Baker/Martin Isepp/Ambrose Gauntlett, Ambrose Gauntlett (viol), Martin Isepp (harpsichord), Ambrose Gauntlett (percussion), Dame Janet Baker/Martin Isepp/Ambrose Gauntlett/Douglas...

  • Release Date: 28th Jun 2013
  • Catalogue No: 9994440125
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

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Contents

Dowland: Come again, sweet love doth now invite

Work length2:29
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  • Robert Spencer (lute), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Spencer (lute)

Campion: Never love unless you can

Work length1:09
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  • Robert Spencer (lute), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Spencer (lute)

Campion: Oft have I sighed

Work length2:36
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  • Robert Spencer (lute), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Spencer (lute)

Campion: If thour longst so much to learn

Work length1:52
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  • Robert Spencer (lute), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Spencer (lute)

Campion: Fain would I wed

Work length1:18
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  • Robert Spencer (lute), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Spencer (lute)

Purcell: Sleep, Adan, sleep

Work length1:54
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  • Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba), Martin Isepp (harpsichord), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Purcell: Lord, what is man?, Z192

Work length5:41
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  • Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba), Martin Isepp (harpsichord), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

George Monro: My lovely Celia

Work length2:24
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  • Ambrose Gauntlett (percussion), Martin Isepp (harpsichord), Ambrose Gauntlett (viol), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Boyce: Tell, me lovely shepherd

Work length2:10
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  • Ambrose Gauntlett (percussion), Martin Isepp (harpsichord), Ambrose Gauntlett (viol), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Arne: Where the Bee Sucks

Work length1:51
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  • Ambrose Gauntlett (percussion), Douglas Whittaker (flute), Martin Isepp (harpsichord), Ambrose Gauntlett (viol), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Lawes, H: A dialogue on a kiss

Work length3:32
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), George Malcolm (harpsichord), Kenneth Heath (cello)

Lawes, W: A dailogue between Charon and Philomel

Work length4:20
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), George Malcolm (harpsichord), Kenneth Heath (cello)

Lawes, W: A dialogue between Daphne and Stephen

Work length1:50
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), George Malcolm (harpsichord), Kenneth Heath (cello)

Handel: Giù nel Tartarei regni

Work length7:04
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  • George Malcolm (organ), Kenneth Heath (cello), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Handel: Quando in calma ride il mare

Work length6:13
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  • George Malcolm (organ), Kenneth Heath (cello), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Purcell: Sound the Trumpet (from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary)

Work length1:50
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  • Daniel Barenboim (piano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Purcell: My dearest, my fairest (from Incidental Music to 'Pausanias')

Work length3:04
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  • Daniel Barenboim (piano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Purcell: No, resistance is but vain (from Incidental Music to 'The Maid's Last Prayer')

Work length7:14
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  • Daniel Barenboim (piano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Purcell: Shepherd, leaving decoying (from 'King Arthur')

Work length1:07
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  • Daniel Barenboim (piano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Parry: O Mistress Mine

Work length1:31
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Parry: Proud Maisie

Work length1:47
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Stanford: La Belle Dame sans merci (Keats)

Work length6:10
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea

Work length2:53
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Quilter: Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley)

Work length1:28
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Ireland: The Salley Gardens (Yeats)

Work length2:20
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Gurney: The fields are full (Shanks)

Work length1:44
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Warlock: Pretty Ring Time

Work length1:22
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Busch, W: Rest ("AE", Russell)

Work length2:16
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Britten: Corpus Christi Carol (Anon, 15th Century)

Work length2:55
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Burns, Robert: Comin Thro' The Rye

Work length2:45
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Sullivan, A: Orpheus with his lute (Shakespeare)

Work length3:38
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Parry: O Mistress Mine

Work length1:34
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Vaughan Williams: Bushes and Briars (Unaccompanied folk song)

Work length2:55
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  • Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

Quilter: It was a lover and his lass (No. 3 from Five Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23)

Work length2:37
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Ireland: The Salley Gardens (Yeats)

Work length2:16
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Hughes, H: I know where I am going

Work length2:25
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Bax: Me suis mis en danse

Work length2:00
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Howells: Gavotte (Newbolt)

Work length3:18
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Finzi: It was a lover and his lass (No. 5 from Let us garlands bring, Op. 18)

Work length2:52
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Ronald Kinloch Anderson: Drink to me only (To Celia) (Jonson)

Work length2:56
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano)

Britten: A Spring Symphony Op. 44: Out of the lawn lie in bad (W H Auden)

Work length6:30
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
  • London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
  • André Previn

Christopher Hassall, Sir William Walton: Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Two, Scene 1

Work length4:26
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  • Robert Lloyd (bass), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo-soprano), Gerald English (tenor)
  • Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Orch.Of Royal Opera House Covent Garden
  • Lawrence Foster

How can I sleep? -

Track length1:45
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At the haunted end of the day (Cressida)

Track length2:41
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Christopher Hassall, Sir William Walton: Troilus and Cressida (revised version), Act Three: Diomede! ... Father! ... (Cressida)

Work length4:24
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  • Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
  • Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Orch.Of Royal Opera House Covent Garden
  • Lawrence Foster

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