 Dame
Janet Baker
Presented by Brian Kay
 BBC Radio 3. tx 22/07/95 – 12/08/95
4 x 120’ programmes celebrating the life and work of the great British
mezzo-soprano
1 The Life
Brain Kay talked to Dame Janet Baker about her remarkable career, from first
successes in Yorkshire to the responsibilities of becoming an international star.
With contributions from Martin Isepp, John McCarthy, Sir Charles Mackerras
and Rodney Milnes, and music from Dame Janet’s vast recorded output,
including songs by Vaughan Williams, Schubert and Elgar, arias by Bach, Gluck
and Handel, Schumann’s `Frauenliebe und leben’, Donizetti’s
`Maria Stuarda’ and Britten’s `Phaedra’.
2 The Concert Hall
In the second programme, Dame J4anet talked to Brian Kay about her experiences
on the concert platform, from the intimacy of lute songs to working with conductors
such as Klemperer, Boult, Bernstein and Barbirolli. With music by Mendelssohn,
Handel, Campion, Bach, Martini, Gounod, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar.
3 The Recital Room and Recording Studio
Dame Janet Baker talked to Brian Kay about the delights
and pressures involved in pleasing audiences worldwide as
well as the invisible listeners behind the microphone, and
reflected on the crucial relationships between pianist and
singer, and words and music. Withcontributions from Martin
Isepp, Sir Neville Marriner and Leo Black, and music by Stanford,
Warlock, Handel, Chausson, Bach, Strauss, Schoenberg, Ravel
and Schubert.
4 The Opera House
In the last programme in the series, Dame Janet talked
to Brian Kay about her work on the opera stage and the roles
that particularly inspired her 0 from handel’s Julius
Caesar and Kate in Britten’s `Owen Wingrave’ With
contributions from Sir Charles Mackerras, Raymond Leppard,
John Copley, Ian Partridge, Rodney Milnes and Della Jones,
and music from operas by Handel, Gluck, Berlioz, Purcell, Mozart
and Britten.
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