Janet Baker - Orfeo ed Euridice - Che faro senza Euridice

Dame Janet Baker sings Orfeo's tragic aria from Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
TV recital, 1982.
For a free English translation, please see the following:
operainenglish.blogspot.it/201...

[@Dashingdiva73]

Makes me cry every time I hear it. I'm learning it on the cello.

[@netherledy]

There is no other singer that touches my heart so intimately

[@marypreid1]

The best performance of this beautiful aria - in my opinion.

[@angelabender8132]

My favorite mezzo soprano

[@kasha1932]

Oh to be able to see and hear her NOW! No fancy sets or costumes.....just a gift from Heaven is Dame Baker and her magnificent voice! Let's bring back the RECITAL....Miss Horne is working on it! Wonderful! Thank you so much for posting this.

[@Alisa_25]

Breathtaking!!!

[@apricotcookie4850]

Dame Janet is a sublime artist. She brings such beauty into this world. What a privilege to hear her. Thank you for posting this.

[@NormandyMarle]

I grew up listening to Dame Baker. Such a gorgeous musical line with out all of the "drama" fussiness. Her singing is her own...but I sometimes think that in Bakers's singing, we were given a bit of consolation for loosing Kathleen Ferrier too, too early.

[@monoecumsemper]

You are so right about irreplaceable Kathleen Ferrier

[@thereserickmanbull9232]

True!

[@piustwelfth]

What a voice! Janet Baker is one of the greatest singers of any generation, especially in early and baroque music. I have several of her Handel recordings which are second to none.

[@sfopera]

There's never been anyone equal to her since. Great, treasured artist.

[@chaseezra5450]

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[@kashjaxon4860]

@Chase Ezra Instablaster ;)

[@SuzyBriseno]

Such a gorgeous voice; sucha masterful musician!

[@MegaAlbaby]

What a voice, indeed and what a SINGER. Period! Watch how her mouth forms around the words allowing the SOUND to emerge - amazing. Almost sensual....

[@kasha1932]

THANKS! To Dame Janet for recording all this great music for us...some 30 years ago!!! She is now about 80 years of age, and I wonder whether she is enjoying her thoughtfulness as much as I am!!! Thanks again!

[@skyhunk]

Baker rips the heart out of my chest!! So mournful, so very moving!

[@panosterz364]

Stimme und Interpretation der Spezialklasse. Υπέροχη ερμηνεία.

[@franciswright6578]

One of the very greatest singers.

[@kasha1932]

This woman gets through to my brain and heart.....Just standing there making Heavenly Music for us! ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT! Again thank you for the posts!

[@cofeebeing]

Superb. So captures the heartbroken Orpheus.

[@windyworm]

Beautiful

[@blackcastle7]

in tears... lovely

[@maryinengland3388]

Best version of this - beautiful, musical and true.

[@Herrotic]

The best Orfeo ever :) , I think it was difficult for her to sing it in static after played it on stage as she did !

[@TwentyTwelveee]

absolutly lovely..

[@isaballaserrano4991]

Bravissima! Love you 💖

[@stephanbrekelmans6869]

Wow I love this ebony sound!

[@WCaron23001]

This is why I love You Tube

[@liquid818]

I love it. Flawless!

[@fairlytaleofnewyork]

Absolutely wonderful!! Thank you for the upload of this great historical performance! Best regards Satoko

[@midsummernight2009]

Powerful and mellow at the same time! This aria never fails to move me to tears. So sad.

[@micksmith4973]

Wow

[@MyThomasCrown]

Couldn´t agree more with everything said here. Everything is in place, nothing missing. Wonder what the ensemle are, English Chamber Orchestra, St.Martin in the Fields? Love the English tradition in classical interpretation.

[@lelspeck]

Simply magnificent. Thank you for posting.

[@dAMatlhoko1935]

Simply Wonderful ! Che Faro Senza Teddy-ce! My beloved Pomeranian shown here Janet's rendition reminds me of him !

[@eligal10]

איזה שירה מרגשת, ואיזו יצירה מדהימה אי אפשר שלא להוזיל דמעה. איזה קול עמוק יפה ואיכותי יש לג'נט בקר.תודה ל-GABBA שהעלה זאת ליוטיוב. אלי גל ממודיעין

[@kuddelfranz20001]

atemberaubend, unübertrefflich

[@angelabender8132]

La mia favorita mezzo soprano

[@helgeevju]

Oh thanks for this! I have her curious, too fast recording transposed up to D major, in which key the piece simply doesn't work. This is the stuff, I can forget that other one and enjoy Dame Janet's superb singing and artistry again!

[@privremensam]

Exactly, here, the tempo is perfect. At the Decca recording, it's so fast, it kills the music.

[@spadiu]

unica the best

[@jordivalles6779]

Bravo!

[@rmegna]

Absolutely first rate!

[@aureliorizzo7118]

Magnifica❤️

[@gutlover33uk]

wow

[@voltaire1377]

O mrs Baker! nobody told that it is NOt "sendza" but "sentssa" ? I love you though!..

[@skyhunk]

As a listener, I found it very hard to distinguish "sendza" from "sentsa". You have more acute hearing than I.

[@voltaire1377]

is time for you to buy an ear Appliance?

[@scoffmax]

Who gives a tinker's cuss?

[@srg5405]

Baker is her maiden name. She is Mrs Shelley!

[@TheCourtwick]

guyosborn: A complete PRATT

[@guyosborn]

It is wonderful, but a little irritating in the wrong emphasis on the name "Euridice"; the E should be sounded as a separate syllable. She sounds it like "pure", when it should be started with the E like the a in "Pay" before the U like "pure"

[@rwcoake]

Who are the conductor - it's not Raymond Leppard - and the string ensemble here? Their own performance is quite worthy of Dame Janet's! And is there is a recording of their performance somewhere besides KZbin? Dame Janet performs Martini's 'Plaisir d'Amour' in a clip from the same program that's also on KZbin. But there's no attribution there, either, aside from mention of a 1982 TV recital.

[@thecubanism]

A beautiful rendition but I still prefer Klever Kaffs version which to me has a little more depth, incidentally Kath was born 10 minutes from where I live and the Kathleen Ferrier memorial garden is on the same stretch of road in Higher Walton, Preston, I visit both quite often.

[@amandaabigail4726]

Dale hacela

[@caninbar]

I just hate how she syllabilizes 'Euridice'. It's so unitalian!

[@amandaabigail4726]

Bien pero aprende a modular la voz

[@amandaabigail4726]

Vieja

[@amandaabigail4726]

Soy Cantante lirica hace la coloratura de Orfeo

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Too much ralentado at the end , too much expressivity , the old sin by 99% of the singers , I prefer the utterly pure Kathleen Ferrier .

[@amandaabigail4726]

Mala eres