Berlioz, Nuits d'été. Janet Baker.n°2. Le spectre de la rose
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Danish archive, concert given March 09, 1972 in Frederiksberg.
Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
Danish radio symphonic orchestra
Denmarks Radio Concert Hall.
@Cantabile27 3 жыл бұрын
For me, there is NO other work; NO other performance; NO other artist; that surpasses THIS musical moment in beauty.................. It is beyond sublime..... ROBERT WHITE
@mikemidulster Жыл бұрын
Well said! As a fan who has seen and heard your live performances (in Belfast, N. Ireland in the 1980s) I have to say that your own flawless lyric voice is high on my list too, although Baker would be at the top.
@fredericgaufichon7373 11 күн бұрын
As a french speaking person. i can say that it's my favorite version
@richardmorrison7251 8 ай бұрын
Incredible, authentic emotion
@davidfiel8013 4 жыл бұрын
as to me, this woman was the best singer ever
@cantanteporsiempre 17 жыл бұрын
what I love more about this woman is that every time she stands on a stage, she looks so natural and humble, and respects music so much that makes me cry. brava.
@norbertmartin-chartrie9594 7 ай бұрын
Quelle beauté ! Il vient l'émotion à l'écoute de Janet Baker.
@didierduplenne2325 6 жыл бұрын
Her French is impeccable. Incredibly focused on expressing the song. Soulful, Brilliant !
@paullewis2413 6 жыл бұрын
Absolutely incredible - no words are adequate to describe this perfection in singing.
@gsygsy 4 жыл бұрын
It's difficult to say why something moves us -- much easier to find fault, to detail what doesn't work. This performance of this song is, for me, transcendent. It takes me to another world, because Baker is so committed to being the spirit, the soul, of the rose. Think how amazing that is -- to embody so powerfully a poet's abstract idea, to be able to convey to listeners that what they're hearing is the point of view of the scent of a flower. That's what Janet Baker, on the back of Berlioz's sensitive setting of Gautier's words, achieves. Sure, she has a beautiful voice and a solid technique. But what really makes this as wonderful as it is the sheer size of her heart, which encompasses the greatness of the song and the humility of its subject.
@bauchmann9971 Жыл бұрын
Pas seulement une grande cantatrice mais surtout une grande interprète!
@helenequenel 4 жыл бұрын
elle a du souffle!! on peut pas faire plus lent
@TFC2000 4 жыл бұрын
Janet Baker is a true communicator. I had started listening to other versions of this piece, but have given up before the end of most. They didn't tell the story, they simply sang the tune.
@egooidios 17 жыл бұрын
this version is the perfection itself. I really had to stand at the end out of pure respect for Dame Janet Baker
@07fantine 5 жыл бұрын
La perfection
@danilomass7959 4 жыл бұрын
Sublime artiste, sublime interprétation!!! Quelle intelligence, quelle beauté, quel souffle, quelle diction, quelle intériorité, quelle émotion! Divine Janet!!! Merci! Merci! Merci!
@SimonSimon-rn3tm 2 жыл бұрын
Non NOn NON
@danilomass7959 Жыл бұрын
@@SimonSimon-rn3tm ?! Vous avez réuni ensemble, la voix sublime, le legato souverain, la diction remarquable, avec, à une exception près, les voyelles françaises exactes. Vous avez l'homogénéité des registres, l'intériorité de l'interprétation, l'émotion continuellement palpable, la sensibilité... Et vous n'êtes capable que de parler de son petit nez.... C'est assez navrant !
@LaDivinaLover Ай бұрын
@@SimonSimon-rn3tm 🤡
@please20130 9 жыл бұрын
I dont understand why people come here and say they like other singer's interpretation better...well if you sing you know individuality makes opera very interesting....and to me I feel that she puts all her soul into this song...not to mention her wonderful techniques and control. :)
@robertjschroff6307 5 жыл бұрын
Marcus Hi, I totally agree. She is the best so far. No one even close to her eternal singing.
@dutchcub 4 жыл бұрын
Beside Regine Crespin the abolute top!
@dominiquefarese8061 3 жыл бұрын
You're so right. Her version deserves as much admiration as Regine Crespin's or Anne Sophie Von Mutter's. That's so much work to do that, and their final products are so perfect. Why choosing. I don't know if you understand the words of the poem, but they are the best you can write in poetry. Our today's french is so poor.
@giuseppezac1965 2 ай бұрын
This video dated 1972 shows us a fantastic singer little remembered today, Dame Jane Baker, in this song La specter della Rose by Berlioz. Her vibrant and exciting voice, warm and penetrating and fantastic diction. Great......she deserves a greater memory
@paullewis2413 Ай бұрын
Janet Baker is well remembered as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century by anyone who knows about the art of opera/leider singing. The masses don’t remember her or even know of her existence, however no surprise there.
@anthonyshakes9781 7 жыл бұрын
I Love this woman..Just pure class. Magical
@robin678 8 жыл бұрын
I don't think that this has ever been equalled..........Bravo Dame Janet.
@marylenereculet3473 3 жыл бұрын
Merveilleuse diction !
@johngotwalt 16 жыл бұрын
she owns the song
@marcellny 14 жыл бұрын
le romantisme francais, a la perfection. gauthier, berlioz, baker.
@BellaFirenze Жыл бұрын
Still the best rendition. Happy 89th birthday! Soulêve ta paupière close Qu'effleure un songe virginal ; Je suis le spectre d'une rose Que tu portais hier au bal. Tu me pris encore emperlée Des pleurs d'argent de l'arrosoir, Et, parmi la fête étoilée, Tu me promenas tout le soir. Ô toi qui de ma mort fus cause, Sans que tu puisses le chasser, [Toute la nuit]1 mon spectre rose À ton chevet viendra danser : Mais ne crains rien, je ne réclame Ni messe ni De Profundis ; Ce léger parfum est mon âme, Et j'arrive du du paradis. Mon destin fut digne d'envie ; [Pour avoir un trépas]2 si beau, Plus d'un aurait donné sa vie, [Car j'ai ta gorge pour]3 tombeau, Et sur l'albâtre où je repose Un poète, avec un baiser, Écrivit : Ci-gît une rose Que tous les rois vont jalouser.
@oswaldwellman7806 9 жыл бұрын
My favourite Berlioz, The depth of expression and beauty of Dame Janet's singing is most moving.
@keithhulks7049 7 жыл бұрын
This a fantastic recording and very moving. Whenever Dame Janet sings "J'arrive,,,," the hairs at the back of my neck stand up. No other version does this. I have been privileged to hear Dame Janet live but only in Mahler and Elgar. My regret is that I was not fortunate enough to hear her sing this cycle live.
@johnmarohn6777 10 жыл бұрын
What I loved about Janet Baker is that she never---I mean "never"---lost the arch of the line in the text. And the line of her incredible voices was always burnished with such a mature timbre. She will always be the gold standard for me.
@michaelludvik7852 10 жыл бұрын
I totally agree. This trait is true for all great artists.
@ainhoaaparicio3729 5 жыл бұрын
C'est ma préférée. Elle est indépassable. On peut faire aussi bien, mais pas mieux.
@carmeloserafin5101 6 жыл бұрын
Che artista sublime...molto incisiva e sempre un'ombra malinconica nella voce mediata, dalla Ferrier....che la rende Romanticamente presente con un'alchimia che media dal fatto di conoscere il bel canto italiano, e un legato spianato da manuale, come poche.Chapeau!
@Aubury 12 жыл бұрын
JB is the very best, remarkable voice and feeling
@eildertbeeftink9873 9 жыл бұрын
I have never yet listened to this rendering by Dame Janet Baker without crying.
@TerryJones-fy3il 8 жыл бұрын
+Eildert Beeftink And I too at 81 and male!
@LaDivinaLover 7 жыл бұрын
Terry Jones what does your gender have to do with crying. I'm so confused...?
@thobisimoloi5438 2 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful soul that ever existed, so impressive
@eternalsilverlight 5 жыл бұрын
Her Diction is immaculate
@celloguy 9 жыл бұрын
With Christa Ludwig the greatest post war mezzo for me. Just unimaginably superb.
@vonmeppen 15 жыл бұрын
No one can sing this like Dame Janet! Brava!
@frogmouth 3 жыл бұрын
Crespine can. I love both
@arrassip 3 жыл бұрын
Crespin
@ChuloJacques 15 жыл бұрын
Je viens de visualiser à nouveau cette prestation. Eh bien, moi aussi, j'arrive du paradis. Tout simplement merveilleux !
@callastoujours 8 жыл бұрын
Flawless.
@marcocito 14 жыл бұрын
Grande artiste! Grande interprète! Grande sensibilité! C'est du raffinement tout pur. Et quelle magnifique musique! Merci Jolicrasseux.
@norbertmartin-chartrie9594 6 ай бұрын
C'est magnifique. Merci beaucoup, beaucoup, beaucoup madame Baker.❤
@thorhild49 10 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful song and amazingly sung by Baker. Haven't heard a better performance.
@qsw-1228 4 жыл бұрын
Mrs. Baker sung the hell out of that! Today everyone would have applauded appreciatively.
@paulprocopolis 4 жыл бұрын
Marvellous! Nobody does it better!
@owenboi66 15 жыл бұрын
This leaves me a jibbering wreck. Simply perfect.
@andrekhamasmie8635 5 жыл бұрын
Every single word of praise must remain a helpless attempt of describing the glimpse of heaven we just heard. The gift she made us is beyond words. Just thankful!
@ruthrattan905 3 жыл бұрын
Breathtaking such a rich creamy voice no other singer sounds like Janet baker thanks for posting
@peter4076 9 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fabulous
@vervent1 14 жыл бұрын
magnifique ! je ne m'en lasse pas ! en plus la prononciation est parfaite ! chapeau ! Merci dame Janet Baker . Annick
@jorgecruz7662 Жыл бұрын
Une vrai merveille !!
@monumentofwonders 7 жыл бұрын
We throw the word great around now to refer to things that are mostly just loud, or are mere conglomerations of fake emotion. Baker is great, because she gets to the soul of things. If you are not moved by this, you have somehow lost your way on the winding road of human.
@BellaFirenze 7 жыл бұрын
It is true. I have heard so many versions of this piece... There are no words.
@paullewis2413 6 жыл бұрын
@Roy Doughty. So true. The world "Great" is just as abused as "Luxury," they lose their true meaning by being continually misused and debased. In any era there are but a handful of genuinely great singers, nowadays fewer than ever it seems, but there is absolutely no doubt that Janet Baker is one of those who can be classed this way and her recorded legacy is there to prove it.
@vonmeppen 15 жыл бұрын
simply great! I have no words for this phantastic interpretation.
@fabriziomariagarzi5534 7 жыл бұрын
Grande cantante, Grande artista.
@wolfram9669 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful, incredible.
@qgingbeauty 6 жыл бұрын
gorgeous! So is Crespin!
@wotansings 16 жыл бұрын
L'art de Janet Baker est d'autant plus grand que la musique de Berlioz dans les Nuit d'été est bien insipide et les poèmes de Gauthier vraiment d'une mièvrerie insurpassable! Janet Baker : la classe! Chapeu et merci pour tout. Nul glamour que de l'art, du goût et du savoir-faire. Un exemple à suivre, assurément.
@anniegrice2425 4 жыл бұрын
I was fortunate to hear her singing this.... with piano, and in a bad accoustic, but still wonderful and memorable, and in fact the last time I heard her...x
@TheJonnyzeus 5 жыл бұрын
The best....
@achantus1 13 жыл бұрын
A fantastic enterpretation! Janet Baker gives it all, her hart and soul. Wonderful!
@nadaniente115a 14 жыл бұрын
Sublime!
@Toscarpia 17 жыл бұрын
Wonderful ! Thank you very very much ! What a lesson, my God !
@isabs8616 6 жыл бұрын
Her Berlioz ' s Marguerite de Faust realy was hypnotic for me as I was discovering singing ... her voice is unique , made me dream so much .
@melinanilles 16 жыл бұрын
l'émotion intacte, un hymne merveilleux: ce léger parfum est mon âme...
@miuzefreak 16 жыл бұрын
Faaaantastic piece ... the music and , oh my god , the words !!! Dame Janet Baker is such a gifted musician and singer . My first love in classical singing along with Monrserrat Caballé
@embenadorfinearts 5 жыл бұрын
Janet Baker is one of the very rare singers to have such variety of repertoire. Here she deploys an immensely deep emotion which her voice rends very well with a superb comprehension of the French text. Her sense of phrasing and legato are of rare beauty, always towards music in one of most amazing compositions by Berlioz. With intensity and integrity she conceives music and poems as a complete entity and incorporates every possible detail. Her musical accents are so intelligent & emotional that make this performance truly exceptional, especially in due of the poor literacy poems by Gautier.
@jbut1208 4 жыл бұрын
Glorious as usual! Is Dame Janet ever less than great? I think not!!
@clodivan 4 жыл бұрын
Très belle interprétation, et quelle diction!
@TheMaripod 11 жыл бұрын
I love her! Just absolutely beautiful!
@ChuloJacques 15 жыл бұрын
Un pur instant de bonheur. Quelle interprétation ! A pure moment of happiness. What a performance!
@AndreKhamasmie 10 жыл бұрын
Bonté divine! Ça me laisse sans voix chaque fois je regarde cet enregistrement. Et je le déjà connais depuis des années. C'est simplement au-delà de toute expression et je ne me laisse pas de le regarder sans fin. Je pourrais faire l'éloge de toute ses capacités sublime et de cette perfection en tout les détails ici, mais pourquoi? Ça m'émeut profondément et c'est le mystère dela musique (ou peut-être dela bonne musique très bien fait)! Je connais aussi les autres interprétation des nuits d'été ici sur KZfaq et pour moi personnellement celle-ci est l'heure de gloire. Et dans cet ordre des 6 chanson juste avec l'expression la plus accompli, je trouve. Pour moi ça représente justement le vrai pouvoir dela musique de toucher en plein coeur. J'adore Janet Baker et également Berlioz mais ici, au moins selon moi, ils ont obtenu quelques minutes de ciel.
@larrydonovan6023 8 жыл бұрын
Yes, Janet Baker is wonderful as is Regina Crispin
@jeanjacquesfalke4775 4 жыл бұрын
Andre Khamasmie je pense exactement comme vous. Superbe. !!!!!
@brucebodden513 5 жыл бұрын
So beautiful.
@skorbitdusha 6 жыл бұрын
I have at the advice of other commenters listened to oompteeen other singers and they all sing beautifully. But this is the only version that moves me so deeply.
@sarahsalotto586 3 жыл бұрын
Divina!
@dorotheafayne 17 жыл бұрын
What an amazing performance and singer... Dorothea
@achantus1 8 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful!
@delphine2310 15 жыл бұрын
I do agree with you, your words are true and precise
@robles146 17 жыл бұрын
it makes me wanna cry... her voice is just beautiful and so inspiring...
@yglofmi 2 жыл бұрын
Très bien.
@BellaFirenze 11 жыл бұрын
Bravissima! Happy 80th Birthday!
@richardwhitehouse8762 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing this. It brings back happy memories of hearing her live in Manchester in the 70s. What you get on record is the extraordinary quality of the voice and her response to text. What you get when you see her perform is how she completely embodies what she's singing about. It communicated with extraordinary power, as it does on this film.
@nigelo6258 11 жыл бұрын
On ne peut que dire, bravo madame! Quel délice! Grâce à votre voix et votre talent extraordinaire, je suis arrivé au paradis en vous écoutant.
@dakwa1 13 жыл бұрын
Over the years I have had so many recordings of Mrs. Janet Baker, from Barber's Sea Songs, and other pieces, yet this is a remarkable piece that really Givers her a excellent exercise of her wonderful voice.
@mariainesgonzalezpereyra Жыл бұрын
Brava ♡
@user-vl7ju1hg6i 7 жыл бұрын
ジャネット·ベイカーさんのばらの精が、今まで聴いた中でいちばん素敵です。
@saraelenamendoza 16 жыл бұрын
Cést tres jolie! mercie Melinanilles... toujurs!
@Teddyb1939 12 жыл бұрын
Just how wonderful can a song & interpretation be!! This is beautiful, Janet Baker in fine voice.
@vivemafille 14 жыл бұрын
Every night my rose-colored wraith Will appear at thy bedside and dance. But fear not, for I am now owed Neither Mass nor De profundis. This fragile perfume is my soul, And Ive arrived here from paradise. My destiny was to be envied, And to suffer so lovely a fate More than one would gladly have died, For thy bosom became my grave; And on the alabaster where I repose The poet there with his soft kiss
@tombeckett8760 6 жыл бұрын
vivemafille Right? How much more beautiful can poetry be? “And all the kings will be jealous of me.”
@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930 7 жыл бұрын
Magistral interpretación de Janet Baler..
@jerrykaplan3791 15 жыл бұрын
How stunning, simple and deeply moving. Such singing!!!
@troubleclef 17 жыл бұрын
so captivating. what a sound! gorgeous. love her, love her, love her. so glad somebody posted some JB
@1blairt 10 жыл бұрын
Seulement une fois dans la vie. Danke sehr.
@jonjon1957jonjon 12 жыл бұрын
Wonderful top, bottom & middle to the voice and a bonus hairdo!
@encarsiaformosa 10 жыл бұрын
O toi qui de ma mort fus cause! Breathtaking...
@georgiajacobson5561 9 жыл бұрын
Wow.
@roythomas5837 6 жыл бұрын
So Beautiful! (Dame Janet Baker is one of a few, (Angela Gheorghiu, Frederica Von Stade, Licia Albanese,) for example, that make me crumble, at the touch of huskiness and pathos that they all share in the voice. This is magnificent!
@frogmouth 4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful , stirs the heart, so at ease for all the range. All concentration of the text.
@savioalves1234 5 жыл бұрын
This is 100% LIVE! Not a note out of place...
@emitch9213 2 жыл бұрын
Stunning. All is there in her. My, just without words. Merci, Madame
@fourstrings48 4 жыл бұрын
Having just viewed and listened to a very choppy performance ot this mélodie from Joyce DiDonato, I am pleased to have come across this version, which strikes me as a model of continuity. Brava Baker!
@MySensualWorld 3 жыл бұрын
Don’t even mention Joyce in the same setence as Dame Janet.
@MrTrackman100 6 жыл бұрын
Sp glad I discover her! Beautiful! I must hear more from her!
@sagalat 17 жыл бұрын
I mistakenly thought so, too, for years until I heard his Grande Symphonie funèbre et triomphale which Wagner himself called the summit of French music. Listen, you will neither be bored NOT pants-less, my friend
@peterfeltham5612 3 жыл бұрын
A great artiste at work, a truly marvelous singer.
@patrickheurley2686 7 жыл бұрын
Merveilleux... Oui , supérieur à Crespin , à Gens , à Von Otter , à Te Kanawa : plus de passion , plus de sensibilité et de présence au texte .. ( Et puis voix plus belle , tout simplement ...)
@DiomedesDioscuro 4 жыл бұрын
Bien sûr qu'elle est supérieure à Gens, même ma mère le serait avec deux ou trois leçons de chant! Mais à Crespin ? Si tu n'aimes pas entendre de la voix, peut-être.
@patrickheurley2686 4 жыл бұрын
@@DiomedesDioscuro Je viens encore de réécouter la Crespin : oui , supérieure à Crespin qui chante sans passion , et dont la voix est sans saveur vraie. Mais des goûts et des couleurs ... Bon ..
@DiomedesDioscuro 4 жыл бұрын
@@patrickheurley2686 Peut-être, j'étais juste dans une croisade contre Baker, dont la réputation je considère excessive. Mais il est possible qu'elle chante mieux cette chanson que d'autres choses. D'ailleurs moi je n'aime pas trop cette chanson.
@patrickheurley2686 4 жыл бұрын
@@DiomedesDioscuro Ciao amico mio , Non , je ne crois pas qu'il faut parler de "réputation excessive" avec J. Baker . Le problème des voix c'est compliqué ! Si on s'en tient à la justesse technique , il y a des dizaines et des dizaines de voix qui méritent d'être appelées "des belles voix" ; mais après il y a les couleurs , les accents , l'investissement , et tout ça dépend en partie des affinités psychologiques d'un artiste - chanteur , pianiste , violoncelliste - avec un compositeur. Il y a des intelligences musicales supérieures qui permettent de comprendre aussi bien Verdi que Haendel , Mozart que Purcell etc. Et là , il y a déjà moins de monde ! Mais sans aller chercher trop loin , notre immense Cécilia Bartoli est capable de nous offrir ça ... Baker est extraordinaire , insurpassable , dans ces Nuits d'été , elle est merveilleuse dans Elgar ; pour le reste , effectivement il y a peut-être mieux , je ne sais pas ... Amicalement !
@patrickheurley2686 4 жыл бұрын
Et je maintiens que , sauf le respect qu'on lui doit , R. Crespin est "une belle voix" qui n'a pas très bien vieilli
@davidnoar 17 жыл бұрын
muy buena version de este ciclo de canciones.
@khothye 15 жыл бұрын
I have always love the great Dame Janet Baker since I heard her at the first time singing Bach's Magnificat. She shines specially in this kind of repertoire, showing her sublety and absolute domain of her voice and interpretation. She simply does exactly what she want, with any difficult. I'M IN LOVE WITH HER. Very thanks for post this videos. :)
@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930 8 жыл бұрын
Muy bello