Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf / Dame Janet Baker

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Album Summary

Performers

• Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano)
• Martin Isepp (Piano)

Composers

• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
• Dominick Argento (1927 - )
• Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933)
• Hugo Wolf (Composer) (1860 - 1903)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)

Notes & Reviews:

"...Janet Baker brings to this challenging music the intelligence, emotional sensitivity, vocal artistry, and indefinable yet unique personality...Repeated listening with texts in hand gradually yields an ever-deepening richness of meaning and sense of profound beauty...This newrelease is a must for all connoisseurs of twentieth-century vocal music, as well as for repertoire-sensitive vocal buffs in general." -Simmons, Fanfare

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Works Details

Argento, Dominick : From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, for voice & piano

• Performers: Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano); Martin Isepp (Piano)
• Running Time: 34 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1970s

Wolf, Hugo : Spanisches Liederbuch :: Nun wandre Maria

• Performers: Martin Isepp (Piano); Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano)
• Running Time: 3 min. sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1889-1890

Wolf, Hugo : Spanisches Liederbuch :: Die ihr schwebet

• Performers: Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano); Martin Isepp (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1889-1890

Wolf, Hugo : Spanisches Liederbuch :: Ach des Knaben Augen

• Performers: Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano); Martin Isepp (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1889-1890

Wolf, Hugo : Spanisches Liederbuch :: Herr, was trägt der Boden hier

• Performers: Martin Isepp (Piano); Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1889-1890

Fauré, Gabriel : Après un rêve ("Dans un sommeil"), song for voice & piano, Op. 7/1

• Performers: Martin Isepp (Piano); Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1877

Fauré, Gabriel : Le secret, Op. 23 no 3

• Performers: Martin Isepp (Piano); Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 07/06/1881

Duparc, Henri : Le manoir de Rosemonde

• Performers: Martin Isepp (Piano); Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano)
• Running Time: 7 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1879

Duparc, Henri : Phidylé ("L'herbe est molle au sommeil"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra)

• Performers: Martin Isepp (Piano); Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1882

Debussy, Claude : Mandoline ("Les donneurs de sérénades"), song for voice & piano, L. 29

• Performers: Martin Isepp (Piano); Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1882

Debussy, Claude : L' Enfant prodigue, scène lyrique for voices & orchestra, L. 57 :: Air de Lia

• Performers: Martin Isepp (Piano); Janet Baker (Mezzo-soprano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1884