Yes. Martin Isepp was the pianist. I was fortunate to hear this performance in person, her final encore at her last recital in NYC in the mid 80s at Carnegie Hall. I moved to a free stage seat after the intermission and was seated behind her. She had been ill that week and I believe there was some uncertainty as to whether or not she could perform. I have collected most every commercial recording by Dame Janet Baker over the years. To me there are few singers who come close to matching her impeccable phrasing. Every note she sang had a purpose in expressing her always tasteful interpretations of her well chosen repertoire. I feel so fortunate to have heard a number of her live performances in NYC at the end of her career. Though she may not have been at the peak of her abilities at that time,, her consummate artistry was in no way diminished. I urge anyone interested who is unfamiliar with her unique and unmistakable voice to search out her recordings which remain as a such a great legacy for us all.
Janet Baker gives us in this folk song the gift of plenitude through the music in its essence. Intelligence and emotions are supreme "naturalistic" here. Thank you for posting this video.
She gives us the darkness and uncanny, uneasy quality of the best old folksongs; that mysterious "call of the blood" that great singers of folk and blues, like Odetta, give us. Wikipedia lists over a hundred different performances of this Irish or Scottish Elegy? Dirge? Knell? Threnody? From Irish tenors like John McCormack to Rock/Jazz performers like Van Morrison to Jazz Saxophonists like Wayne Shorter: this is song to our blood. We must cherish these as we do our most cherished and valuable performers, such as the great Dame Janet Baker. Thank you, dimitrovajunkie , for uploading this treasure.
Janet Baker ~ besides her sensitive artistry (not to mention mastery of tecnhique) ~ owns one of the FEW voices in all recording history with a TEXTURE legitimately called GOLDEN. Andy Rawn, West L.A. Basso
@dimitrovajunkie do you have any idea who's arrangement of She Moved Through the Fair this is? I've just conducted an unsuccessful google trawl to try to find out.
I think it is an arrangement by the Irish composer Herbert Hughes which is available through the publisher Boosey and Hawkes but you might want to check beforehand.
Yes. Martin Isepp was the pianist. I was fortunate to hear this performance in person, her final encore at her last recital in NYC in the mid 80s at Carnegie Hall. I moved to a free stage seat after the intermission and was seated behind her. She had been ill that week and I believe there was some uncertainty as to whether or not she could perform. I have collected most every commercial recording by Dame Janet Baker over the years. To me there are few singers who come close to matching her impeccable phrasing. Every note she sang had a purpose in expressing her always tasteful interpretations of her well chosen repertoire. I feel so fortunate to have heard a number of her live performances in NYC at the end of her career. Though she may not have been at the peak of her abilities at that time,, her consummate artistry was in no way diminished. I urge anyone interested who is unfamiliar with her unique and unmistakable voice to search out her recordings which remain as a such a great legacy for us all.
For me, in my lifetime, the greatest female singing voice.
✨👏
Such a lovely , very old melody….If she can’t do this justice, nobody can….😊
Dame 'Janets voice is in a class all by itself.
I love her interpretation of this song. Phrasing and voice, perfect.
`you can have the Brexit but Katheleen Ferrier y Janet Baker belong to the world . From spain we ll always love you
Such gentleness. Such virtuosity. Just beautiful.
Janet Baker gives us in this folk song the gift of plenitude through the music in its essence. Intelligence and emotions are supreme "naturalistic" here. Thank you for posting this video.
She gives us the darkness and uncanny, uneasy quality of the best old folksongs; that mysterious "call of the blood" that great singers of folk and blues, like Odetta, give us. Wikipedia lists over a hundred different performances of this Irish or Scottish Elegy? Dirge? Knell? Threnody? From Irish tenors like John McCormack to Rock/Jazz performers like Van Morrison to Jazz Saxophonists like Wayne Shorter: this is song to our blood. We must cherish these as we do our most cherished and valuable performers, such as the great Dame Janet Baker. Thank you, dimitrovajunkie , for uploading this treasure.
Thank you 😢💙🙏 Arnold Bourbon Amaral 🌎🌍🌏
Janet Baker ~ besides her sensitive artistry (not to mention mastery of tecnhique) ~ owns one of the FEW voices in all recording history with a TEXTURE legitimately called GOLDEN. Andy Rawn, West L.A. Basso
Ravishing!!
Simply miraculous..
Is that B.B. King seated behind her on the right, at the 1:00 minute mark?
Does anyone know who wrote this arrangement? Simply stunning.
@dimitrovajunkie do you have any idea who's arrangement of She Moved Through the Fair this is? I've just conducted an unsuccessful google trawl to try to find out.
It is a sort of chimeric figure between real and imaginative.
I think it is an arrangement by the Irish composer Herbert Hughes which is available through the publisher Boosey and Hawkes but you might want to check beforehand.
anyone know the pianist?
I think it may be Martin Isepp. I’ve watched this video so many times since first coming across it
It CERTAINLY is Martin Isepp!👏👏👏👏👏👏