Janet Baker
Also Known As: Dame Janet Baker
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: Not available
Age: Not available
Gender: Female
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Donizetti : Mary Stuart
Overview: David Rendall, John Tomlinson, Janet Baker, Peter Butler, Rosalind Plowright, Angela Bostock, Glenn McKeown, Giuseppe Bardari, Tom Hammond, Alan Opie, Leigh Maurice
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
Overview: A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-09
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Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
Overview: An irreverent survey of British Music.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-04
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Dame Janet Baker Sings
Overview: Mary Marquis introduces a concert recorded in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh in 1981 with Dame Janet Baker. She performs Mendelssohn's concert aria Infelice and Handel's dramatic solo cantata Lucrezia with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-26
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Kathleen Ferrier: An Ordinary Diva
Overview: A portrait of the great British contralto who, despite little formal musical training, rose from humble origins to become an internationally acclaimed artist before her tragic early death in 1953. With contributions from Dame Janet Baker , Ian Jack, Sir George Christie and Lady Evelyn Barbirolli.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-05
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10 Best Elgar
Overview: A line up of star performers celebrate the very best of Edward Elgar's music in the 150th anniversary year of his birth.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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Orfeo ed Euridice
Overview: Made for TV movie version of the famous opera.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-01
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Janet Baker: In Her Own Words
Overview: In her first documentary for more than 35 years, the great British classical singer Dame Janet Baker talks more openly and emotionally than ever before about her career and her life today. With excerpts of her greatest stage roles (as Dido, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar and Orpheus), as well as of her appearances in the concert hall and recording studio (works by Handel, Berlioz, Schubert, Elgar, Britten and Mahler), she looks back at the excitements and pitfalls of public performance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-14
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Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Overview: Beginning with the First Symphony, Bernstein reveals Mahler's position at the hinge of modernism, while emphasizing his emotional extremism. The uplifting Second "Resurrection" Symphony, with which Bernstein had an especially long and close association, is recorded here in a historic performance from 1973, set in the Romanesque splendor of Ely Cathedral. In the Third, Bernstein encompasses the symphony's spiritual panorama like no other conductor, with the Vienna Philharmonic players alive to every nuance.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-17
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The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein
Overview: This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth. Recorded in Israel, Vienna and later in London, it is punctuated by biographical interludes and illustrated by musical examples drawn from the cycle of Mahler's works recorded by Bernstein. Bernstein talks, plays and conducts various orchestras (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker) and soloists (Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp, Walton Groenroos) in performances spanning 17 years. Leonard Bernstein also examines the roots of Gustav Mahler's inspiration. The programme also features music from the nine symphonies, 'The Song of the Earth' and the 'Wunderhorn Cycle'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Owen Wingrave
Overview: A family conflict ensues after Owen, the youngest of the proud military family Wingrave, expected to continue the family tradition and become a soldier, rejects violence and war and proclaims himself a pacifist.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-16
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Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words
Overview: A tribute to Jacqueline du Pré to mark the thirtieth anniversary of her death thirty years ago, on 19 October 1987. The film contains archive footage shot during Jacqueline du Pré’s lifetime which captures some glorious and professionally filmed live performances. It also remembers both her personality and her music through the memories and tributes of her closest friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-22
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