Not only wonderful singing and violin playing but masterful television direction. That track behind the orchestra, pulling focus, with cable bashers making sure they work silently, till that magical moment when the 3 artists are all in a perfectly composed shot - God that's really difficult with those old heavy cameras. That too is great artistry.
Golly. I don't think I've had much chance to WATCH Baker sing before. The simplicity and unaffected expression! the amazing vocal beauty. Thank you so much.
Superor singing by Baker and superb playing by the violinist. It is a rare performance of genuine artistry by all, one no longer heard on the operatic or the concert stage.
Wow! That made my knees crumble! The are many great sopranos and mezzos through the years with all the art of perfection in voices, but for me there are a very few, Janet Baker, Von Stade, Gheorghiu, Albanese, that have a touch of pathos and huskiness in their voices that turn me to jelly. I have never heard a recording of "Morgen" that I love like this one. (The closet second probably was Bjoerling.)
As an opera singer, I love so much to sing that lied... This is so amazing how this woman sounds good! (She's great in lieder...) Wow! This is so beautiful and peaceful singing! Merci!
so wonderful. thank you for posting this magic. this song has melodic lines that are so gentle and long that they ressemble transcendence. Even if some of us are skeptical about god, who can resist something like prayer listening to this?
Thanks to the BBC Genome database, I think we can be pretty certain this comes from the following broadcast: Music on 2 - BBC Two England, 17 September 1972 20:15 Profile in Music: Janet Baker The Yorkshire mezzo-soprano talks to Bernard Levin about the career which has made her one of the most sought-after singers in the world and sings music with which she is particularly associated With ELIZABETH BAINBRIDGE, JENNIFER HILL, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader and solo violin KENNETH SILLITO Solo harp JOHN MARSON Conductor and accompanist RAYMOND LEPPARD Costumes RAYMOND RUCHES Make-up MAUREEN WINSLADE Lighting DAVE SYDENBAM Sound ADRIAN STOCKS Designer DON TAYLOR Producer PATRICIA FOY
I suspect this was orchestrated by Strauss himself - orchestral versions of his songs exist. Yes likely the violinist was given precedence microphone wise - the level needed to drop once Dame Janet started to sing. It is true that the violin is the melody and the vocal line a gentle ' commentary' using the words of the poem, but oh how beautiful it is!
It looks to me as if the violinist is a young Ken Sillitoe, who, among other things, led the Academy of St Martin-in -the-Fields for many years. Very fine playing!
Very wonderful. An instantly recognisable voice and one of the great interrupters of our day. I met her at her house in Harrow many years ago and I remember the afternoon with great affection and huge admiration for this iconic of artists. I don't think she knew how great is was (is). It was literally her - telling the story. But it was in such a beguiling and captivating way.....
Despite the soupy film recording and muffled soundtrack, nothing can diminish Baker's singing. She had this extraordinary interpretative skill with Strauss, which transcended the mere notes. Who remembers her performance as Julius Caesar with Valerie Masterson? Terrifying in its energy and verve. She was and is an exceptional artist.
I would have to agree with you...as both a singer and conductor, I assure you that any artist who has done the proper study of the score will respect the efforts of all. It shows the maturity of the performer's artistic philosophies. One who serves the music respects all involved in making it happen because it's a unification of wills and energies in motion towards a higher more perfect goal; something much more involved and precious than any ONE person involved.
Having had the privilege of working with Dame Janet Baker and Kenneth Sillito in the past I can confirm that perchykeith's comment is accurate. A magnificent performance, as usual, from both superb artists.
Come ho amato questa cantante che nei concerti spaziava da Monteverdi a Berg che ...era un vero incanto....con una voce che sembrava intinta nell'oro di un tramonto ....
I know exactly how you feel as I am pianist who often appears as an accompanist and you know the singer usually gets the spotlight and that the usual way its done and your right the collaborators are not always given the credit they deserve.
Loved the Schubert 's AN DIE MUSIK, Ode to MUSIC, great sopranos and Tenors Also , I think the translation of:AN DIE MUSIK in English is great, best I have read yet.
Nice comment. I would have the violin under the voice, but the arrangement does achieve some interesting intersections as echoes between voice and violin. Lovely work.
In which key is she singing this? Somewhere between F and F# on my piano, but the Lied is i G in my score. Morgen is from the blissfull days of 1893-4, when Strauß maried Pauline de Ahna. The 4 Lieder were presented to this marvellous soprano (Elizabeth in Tannhäuser) as a wedding gift. The 20th century and two world wars are unthinkable.
billyguns2: If you intended this for me, my apologies! I didn't mean to demean DJB, but was simply pointing out that the Orchestra/instruments always takes second place to the vocalists (or so it seems). I tend to listen more to Strauss' Orchestral themes. From now on, I'll keep my opinions to myself. If I ruffled feathers, I once again apologize......BUT, I do wish people would directly address the person to whom they're responding......
Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen und auf dem Wege, den ich gehen werde, wird uns, die Glücklichen sie wieder einen inmitten dieser sonnenatmenden Erde... und zu dem Strand, dem weiten, wogenblauen, werden wir still und langsam niedersteigen, stumm werden wir uns in die Augen schauen, und auf uns sinkt des Glückes stummes Schweigen... And tomorrow the sun will shine again And on the way which I shall follow She will again unite us lucky ones As all around us the earth breathes in the sun Slowly, silently, we will climb down To the wide beach and the blue waves In silence, we will look in each other's eyes And the mute stillness of happiness will sink upon us... Original German Text by John Henry Mackay Categorie
MORGEN----RICHARD STRAUSS-JOHN HENRY MACKAY Y en la mañana el sol volverá a brillar; y por el camino que yo recorreré, nosotros nos reuniremos otra vez, los bienaventurados, en el seno de esta tierra que respira la luz del sol. Y a la inmensa playa, bañada por olas azules, bajaremos despacio y silenciosamente, calladamente nos miraremos a los ojos, y sobre nosotros descenderá el mudo silencio de la felicidad. JOHN HENRY MACKAY --------------------------------------------- Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen und auf dem Wege, den ich gehen werde, wird uns Glücklichen, sie wieder einen inmitten dieser sonnenatmenden Erde… Um zu dem Strand, dem weiten, wogenblauen, werden will still und lagsam niedersteigen, stumm werden wir uns in die Augen schauen, und auf uns sinkt des Glückes stummes Schweigen… JOHN HENRY MACKAY
I've noticed this - I'm a singer, but most of my life I've only been an instrumentalist, so I have a slightly different perspective. I think people are generally oblivious to anything else musically when they see somebody singing.
Does anyone else feel that this arrangement is all wrong for this song? Compared to her performance with Gerald Moore, this feels a little rushed, too metered and the violin is so loud. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE THIS PIECE and I LOVE JANET BAKER but whose idea was this to create this awkward chamber arrangement? any thoughts?
Very, very beautiful, but IMO the best renditions of this song are tenors 0 Korolev's and Wunderlich's and the most beautiful, enchanting one is Nicholas Spanos's. His version is just otherworldly!
I believe that he is an accompanist, and Dame Baker is a soloist. For the lieder, the singing part is supposed to be the main part - soloist, and the piano or violin or orchestral arrangement is supposed to be an accompaniment. I don't think this song is an exception. He is a great violinist, but he played like a solist. Like Gerald Moore's book -"Am I too loud?", the accompanist should not be too loud.
Beautiful song and performance by Janet Baker. A great violinist, too, except that he played as if he was a solist instead of an accompanist to Ms, Baker.
There is more instrumental music than vocal music. There are more instrumentalists than vocalists (in the classical world). Yes, it is a chamber piece; however, the solo is a vocalist. Could you say the same about the 3rd trumpet player in a piano/orchestra concerto.... going unnoticed? Actually, in opera, it's the conductors that have all of the fame these days. Don't blame the singer!
The German mistakes are a bit distracting. She sings "Und auf de*n* Wege, den ich *s*ehen werde" instead of "Und auf de*m* Wege, den ich *g*ehen werde." And that meaty "-er" at the start is something else. And the lack of glottal stops on leading vowels. Not very German, I'm afraid.
I assure, that is primarily in the "academic" world. Just some insecure wannabe diva who hasn't a chance in hell in having a career, enjoying his/her 15 minutes of faux fame. Most singers (musicians) I know highly respect instrumentalists. It also appears YOU don't appreciate a "singer" as you refer to yourself as a "musician" and not the singer. Goes both ways, don't ya think? I'd put my musicianship up against you any day and win! ;-)
Not only wonderful singing and violin playing but masterful television direction. That track behind the orchestra, pulling focus, with cable bashers making sure they work silently, till that magical moment when the 3 artists are all in a perfectly composed shot - God that's really difficult with those old heavy cameras. That too is great artistry.
Golly. I don't think I've had much chance to WATCH Baker sing before. The simplicity and unaffected expression! the amazing vocal beauty. Thank you so much.
This is so amazing. Whatever Janet Baker sings, it is turned in real gold! She was, besides Christa Ludwig, the best mezzo-soprano we ever had.
What a great gift to the world is Dame Janet Baker!
Wonderful tempo, often renditions can seem a touch fast but this is perfection. Incredible performance.
I don't know where you keep finding these videos, but please don't stop. She is unequaled.
An exquisite rendering, brings tears to one's eyes
Superor singing by Baker and superb playing by the violinist. It is a rare performance
of genuine artistry by all, one no longer heard on the operatic or the concert stage.
the violinist was a very distinguished chamber musician called Kenneth Silito, who led the Gabrieli quartet.
Wow! That made my knees crumble! The are many great sopranos and mezzos through the years with all the art of perfection in voices, but for me there are a very few, Janet Baker, Von Stade, Gheorghiu, Albanese, that have a touch of pathos and huskiness in their voices that turn me to jelly. I have never heard a recording of "Morgen" that I love like this one. (The closet second probably was Bjoerling.)
As an opera singer, I love so much to sing that lied... This is so amazing how this woman sounds good! (She's great in lieder...) Wow! This is so beautiful and peaceful singing! Merci!
You have my full cooperation.
MY FAVORITE SINGER THANKYOU JANET BAKER FROM MARIA BACZYNSKI SWEDEN.
Superb voice Ms Baker.One that will never be forgotten.
so wonderful. thank you for posting this magic. this song has melodic lines that are so gentle and long that they ressemble transcendence. Even if some of us are skeptical about god, who can resist something like prayer listening to this?
this is perfection the violinist and singer a perfect combination of great talents.
Thanks to the BBC Genome database, I think we can be pretty certain this comes from the following broadcast:
Music on 2 - BBC Two England, 17 September 1972 20:15
Profile in Music: Janet Baker
The Yorkshire mezzo-soprano talks to Bernard Levin about the career which has made her one of the most sought-after singers in the world and sings music with which she is particularly associated
With ELIZABETH BAINBRIDGE, JENNIFER HILL, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader and solo violin KENNETH SILLITO
Solo harp JOHN MARSON
Conductor and accompanist RAYMOND LEPPARD
Costumes RAYMOND RUCHES
Make-up MAUREEN WINSLADE
Lighting DAVE SYDENBAM
Sound ADRIAN STOCKS
Designer DON TAYLOR
Producer PATRICIA FOY
Back when television was good, instead of the crap they show these days
i love this song and Janet baker has the most beatiful voice!!! i am learning this song in preparation for a student recital..
Utterly exquisite! A jewel in the crown of humanity.
I suspect this was orchestrated by Strauss himself - orchestral versions of his songs exist. Yes likely the violinist was given precedence microphone wise - the level needed to drop once Dame Janet started to sing. It is true that the violin is the melody and the vocal line a gentle ' commentary' using the words of the poem, but oh how beautiful it is!
It looks to me as if the violinist is a young Ken Sillitoe, who, among other things, led the Academy of St Martin-in -the-Fields for many years. Very fine playing!
You're correct.
Very wonderful. An instantly recognisable voice and one of the great interrupters of our day. I met her at her house in Harrow many years ago and I remember the afternoon with great affection and huge admiration for this iconic of artists. I don't think she knew how great is was (is). It was literally her - telling the story. But it was in such a beguiling and captivating way.....
'interrupters' 🤣 I think you meant 'interpreters', but yeah, she was an interrupter too! (damn autocorrect, eh?)
Beautiful, indeed. A performance absolutely stunning in its eloquence.
I am totally, so irretrievably undone by the unbelievable beauty of this....
Beautiful! Can anyone put on Janet Baker singing "Befreit" by Strauss ??? - is also very very very beautiful.
Despite the soupy film recording and muffled soundtrack, nothing can diminish Baker's singing. She had this extraordinary interpretative skill with Strauss, which transcended the mere notes. Who remembers her performance as Julius Caesar with Valerie Masterson? Terrifying in its energy and verve. She was and is an exceptional artist.
I would have to agree with you...as both a singer and conductor, I assure you that any artist who has done the proper study of the score will respect the efforts of all. It shows the maturity of the performer's artistic philosophies. One who serves the music respects all involved in making it happen because it's a unification of wills and energies in motion towards a higher more perfect goal; something much more involved and precious than any ONE person involved.
The Violin abligato is played amazingly.
@lmspr She is one of my alltime favourite mezzos!! Orfeo, handel roles, impressive, noone like her! She is an specialist of this repertoire. Brava
The Tempo is lento, very nice! Thanks for uploading.
Encontrar esta versión ha sido mi primer re-
galo de cumpleaños en la fecha del mismo.
Me encantó,gracias por compartir "pequeñas
joyas".
Having had the privilege of working with Dame Janet Baker and Kenneth Sillito in the past I can confirm that perchykeith's comment is accurate. A magnificent performance, as usual, from both superb artists.
So beautiful. It makes me want to cry. :) thank you for posting.
Madame Baker, sublime
Come ho amato questa cantante che nei concerti spaziava da Monteverdi a Berg che ...era un vero incanto....con una voce che sembrava intinta nell'oro di un tramonto ....
Oh, God, what a beautiful sound.
J'écoute tous les matins ce lied de Strauss en classe avant d'attaquer les cours avec mes élèves.
Thank you so much for identifying him!
Janet Baker's artistry "surpasses" the paucity of an Honorary Title.
"Auf dem wege den ich GEHEN werde" is the right text.... 1:26
Formidable! Et encore merci pour ses interprétations de Berlioz.
This is really beautiful and moving and so is Montserrat Caballe’s version.
I know exactly how you feel as I am pianist who often appears as an accompanist and you know the singer usually gets the spotlight
and that the usual way its done and your right the collaborators are not always given the credit they deserve.
Great singing & wonderful accompaniment! Bravo!
danke! sehr tief!
divine spirits at work..
yes! the violonist sings incredibly!!
exquisite voice.
Perfection.
It's everything!
Oh I have found the answer right beneath my question. He is Ken Sillitoe, who led the Academy of St Martin-in -the-Fields for many years.
@Papermoon2011 He is also a solist, they are equal in this piece. :))
Loved the Schubert 's AN DIE MUSIK, Ode to MUSIC, great sopranos and Tenors
Also , I think the translation of:AN DIE MUSIK in English is great, best I have read yet.
Incredible, incredible, incredible
Personally, I love the violin.
Qué gracia exquisita al cantar. Me he transportado a aquella mañana del encuentro de los dos amantes.
Nice comment. I would have the violin under the voice, but the arrangement does achieve some interesting intersections as echoes between voice and violin. Lovely work.
@mthatch1 its not as rushed as some recordings i've heard. maybe the loud violin is due to the fact that that it was for TV and he is heavily mic'd
In which key is she singing this?
Somewhere between F and F# on my piano, but the Lied is i G in my score.
Morgen is from the blissfull days of 1893-4, when Strauß maried Pauline de Ahna. The 4 Lieder were presented to this marvellous soprano (Elizabeth in Tannhäuser) as a wedding gift.
The 20th century and two world wars are unthinkable.
my favorite rendition of this wonderful work
Does anyone know the date of this performance?
Who is the violinist? One word for this music - sublime!
@Gabba02 Perfect enough for me that I keep coming back to it.
billyguns2: If you intended this for me, my apologies! I didn't mean to demean DJB, but was simply pointing out that the Orchestra/instruments always takes second place to the vocalists (or so it seems). I tend to listen more to Strauss' Orchestral themes. From now on, I'll keep my opinions to myself. If I ruffled feathers, I once again apologize......BUT, I do wish people would directly address the person to whom they're responding......
Maybe that's why I'm reminded of the Mahler Adagietto from Symphony N°5. (1901-1903).
Can anyone tell me who the wonderful violivist is in this vieo?
@billyguns2 I believe the violinist is a young Kenneth Silito
Perfection
❤❤❤
Oh, MARY!
Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen
und auf dem Wege, den ich gehen werde,
wird uns, die Glücklichen sie wieder einen
inmitten dieser sonnenatmenden Erde...
und zu dem Strand, dem weiten, wogenblauen,
werden wir still und langsam niedersteigen,
stumm werden wir uns in die Augen schauen,
und auf uns sinkt des Glückes stummes Schweigen...
And tomorrow the sun will shine again
And on the way which I shall follow
She will again unite us lucky ones
As all around us the earth breathes in the sun
Slowly, silently, we will climb down
To the wide beach and the blue waves
In silence, we will look in each other's eyes
And the mute stillness of happiness will sink upon us...
Original German Text by John Henry Mackay Categorie
can this be bought anywhere??
@mthatch1 its not as rushed as some awful performances. maybe the loud violin has something to do with its being recorded for TV.
MORGEN----RICHARD STRAUSS-JOHN HENRY MACKAY
Y en la mañana el sol volverá a brillar;
y por el camino que yo recorreré,
nosotros nos reuniremos otra vez, los bienaventurados,
en el seno de esta tierra que respira la luz del sol.
Y a la inmensa playa, bañada por olas azules,
bajaremos despacio y silenciosamente,
calladamente nos miraremos a los ojos,
y sobre nosotros descenderá el mudo silencio de la felicidad.
JOHN HENRY MACKAY
---------------------------------------------
Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen
und auf dem Wege, den ich gehen werde,
wird uns Glücklichen, sie wieder einen
inmitten dieser sonnenatmenden Erde…
Um zu dem Strand, dem weiten, wogenblauen,
werden will still und lagsam niedersteigen,
stumm werden wir uns in die Augen schauen,
und auf uns sinkt des Glückes stummes Schweigen…
JOHN HENRY MACKAY
I've noticed this - I'm a singer, but most of my life I've only been an instrumentalist, so I have a slightly different perspective. I think people are generally oblivious to anything else musically when they see somebody singing.
splendide
thank you LILA ; )!
Grande, grande@
Kenneth Silito is indeed the violinist and has had a long and distinguished career:
Date, please?
Does anybody know who the violinist is?
Kenneth Sillito
Realment meravellosa
Divino
wow - a male harpist!
Does anyone else feel that this arrangement is all wrong for this song? Compared to her performance with Gerald Moore, this feels a little rushed, too metered and the violin is so loud. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE THIS PIECE and I LOVE JANET BAKER but whose idea was this to create this awkward chamber arrangement? any thoughts?
incredibile, umano
Una cantante eccelsa
I believe the violinist is a young Kenneth Sillito
Very, very beautiful, but IMO the best renditions of this song are tenors 0 Korolev's and Wunderlich's and the most beautiful, enchanting one is Nicholas Spanos's. His version is just otherworldly!
as am i
I believe that he is an accompanist, and Dame Baker is a soloist. For the lieder, the singing part is supposed to be the main part - soloist, and the piano or violin or orchestral arrangement is supposed to be an accompaniment. I don't think this song is an exception. He is a great violinist, but he played like a solist. Like Gerald Moore's book -"Am I too loud?", the accompanist should not be too loud.
As much as I like this version, I much prefer Dame Janet singing this to the piano accompaniment by Gerald Moore
Ken Sillito
Beautiful song and performance by Janet Baker. A great violinist, too, except that he played as if he was a solist instead of an accompanist to Ms, Baker.
@mthatch1 makes an ass out of himself since it was Strauss himself who made this 'arrangement.'
@newfabian Yes, too loud, and a huge vibrato.
There is more instrumental music than vocal music. There are more instrumentalists than vocalists (in the classical world). Yes, it is a chamber piece; however, the solo is a vocalist. Could you say the same about the 3rd trumpet player in a piano/orchestra concerto.... going unnoticed? Actually, in opera, it's the conductors that have all of the fame these days. Don't blame the singer!
The German mistakes are a bit distracting. She sings "Und auf de*n* Wege, den ich *s*ehen werde" instead of "Und auf de*m* Wege, den ich *g*ehen werde." And that meaty "-er" at the start is something else. And the lack of glottal stops on leading vowels. Not very German, I'm afraid.
Nobody cares, Strauss wouldn't have cared either.
The arrangement here is a bit off balance. Nice vocals from Janet, though
I assure, that is primarily in the "academic" world. Just some insecure wannabe diva who hasn't a chance in hell in having a career, enjoying his/her 15 minutes of faux fame. Most singers (musicians) I know highly respect instrumentalists.
It also appears YOU don't appreciate a "singer" as you refer to yourself as a "musician" and not the singer. Goes both ways, don't ya think? I'd put my musicianship up against you any day and win! ;-)
sorry her voice does nothing for me:-(
You must be stone deaf idiot !!
I'm sorry too.....for you !!
she has no clue what she sings about at all.
exquisite beauty