A visit to the Presto Classical website informed me that I'd missed Dame Janet's 80th birthday, yesterday. One of my favourite singers, and the finest I've heard Live - to paraphrase André Previn said on one of his Christmas Music Night Specials back in the '70s, "I can think of no better present than to hear Janet Baker sing":
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Many happy returns of yesterday, Dame Janet BakerOriginally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
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Or, if you prefer something a little more Up-beat:
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A little red rose for Dame Janet
and from Dame Janet with Gustav and Lenny
Belated happy returns"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Can you believe that youtube doesn't carry Dame Janet's bootleg recording of the Britten arrangement of A Pig's foot and a bottle of beer?!
David Owen-Norris on harmonium
David Starkey on harmonicaComment
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she was on intune yesterday being kleined - top one of these
or presto
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If SK was at her simpering best (worst?) I think I'll give it a miss. Good DLD podcast and also one with JJ on the Gramophone website to hear JB at her best.Originally posted by mercia View PostComment
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When she announced her retirement from singing far too many years ago, I felt not only dismayed but indignant and it was all that I could do not to write a letter of complaint to her to ask how she dare do such a terrible thing. A most wonderful artist. I hope that she is enjoying her life - she richly deserves to - but ours are the more impoverished for her having put that voice away for good...Comment
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Happy Birthday Janet. Her performances of Bach have always stuck in my memory.Comment
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I wonder if Dame Janet knows how privileged she is to share her birthday not only with sprinter Usain Bolt but also with my now 12-yr old daughter?
She would be very welcome to pop in for our Birthday Barbie on Monday - Usain unfortunately couldn't make it...
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