Berlioz, Nuits d'été. Janet Baker.n°6. L'ile inconnue.

[JanetteHeffernan]

Sorry! I meant 'I really,really love this!'

[JanetteHeffernan]

Oh I loe this!

[putzilutzi]

great, great, great!!

[leosky2]

Je voulais aller à la rive fidèle, où on l'aime toujours, ok?

[jolicrasseux]

@leosky2

No ! You would modify the meaning...

[jolicrasseux]

@jolicrasseux

English translation:

Lead me, said the lass,

To the faithful shore

Where one loves forever.

--That shore, my dear,

Is hardly known at all

In the realm of love.

Where would you like to go?

The breeze is coming up!

[leosky2]

@jolicrasseux Thanks for clarifying that for me. In fact ouon doesn't sound right...

[CrystalFlames]

Love this song. And Janet Baker is awesome.

[annickmassedemouzon]

Pour moi, épatant, oui: un peu à la hussarde. Manque de moelleux ,de fluidité, d'inspiration.

[mariandelochs]

OMG, this spirited, wunderbar performance makes my hair stand on end - in a good way!  Magnifique! Brava, Dame Janet! I'm running out of superlatives to describe her great artistry! (And I started out not liking Berlioz at all...and now here I am! Thanks to Dame Janet!)

[Milug5545]

If I thanked you every day for the rest of my life, dear, dear,

jolicrasseux, it would not be enough. Thank you for putting this incredible performance up. Janet Baker is the consumate, musician, singer! I agree completely with Wmloy!.

[lalagonegaga]

I wouldn't like to be a singer who would sing this song and then have it compared to Baker's version. This is one of those ULTIMATE recordings and nobody will ever be able to match this. :)

[lalagonegaga]

It can't get any better than this, it just can't... Fantastic!

[cadillacs1981]

C'est tellement beau la façon qu'elle a de changer son interpretation lors de la partie ou c'est la "jeune belle" qui chante... cet air chanté par Dame Jane Baker me mène très loin

It's so beautiful the way she has to change the tone when it is the "jeune belle" singing part... this music transports me far far away

[jolicrasseux]

Votre goût musical me renverse ! Vos choix: Strauss, Wagner... les plus beaux chants parmi leur oeuvre... et Berlioz en prime !!! et il en reste beaucoup d'autres, vous n'avez pas fini de vous régaler...! Merci !

[jm578]

Thank you so very much for making this available. I heard her sing this cycle with the St. Louis Symphony over thirty years ago.

It was a performance I will never forget. Priceless! Afterwards,I learned from a friend who knew the conductor and who had attended the dress rehearsal that she was sick with a cold! There will never be another mezzo like Janet Baker.

[Wmloy1]

This woman is the consummate singing actress. I miss her live performances! I am hard pressed to find her equal among today's crop of mezzos.

[Wmloy1]

This woman is the consummate singing actress. I miss her live performances! I am hard pressed to find her equal among today's crop of mezzos.

[mltube]

This is an appropriate conclusion of what, imho, is the greatest song cycle ever composed, at least from the musical standpoint. Even the orchestra does not sound too obtrusive. Overall, among the best renditions of the whole cycle.

[crimsonrose]

I LOVE L'Ile Inconnue but this isn't my favorite rendition... still very good though.

[troubleclef]

thank you for posting the whole song cycle. i've listened for years to her recording of this --from lp to cd and now to see her sing these songs and witness her expression of the full range of emotions... i'm transfixed. What's up with that audience? Rather restrained response it seems to me. Man, i would have been shouting bloody hallelujahs. I guess modern audience members are way more yahoo than they used to be.

gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. thank you again.

[embenadorfinearts]

Jolicrasseux, " pour voile une aile d'ange " pour un merci pour posting Dame Janet Baker dand les nuits d'ete ! Voir commentaire en deux parties dans la 1ere melodie (en anglais).

[jolicrasseux]

Your comments are the most pertinent and deeply felt words about Janet Baker's performance. (imho !). She totally feels what she sings, with nudity and purity, french words in her mouth are enlightened ! Thank you !

[BlingBlingDo]

Joliecrasseux, sans mentir, si votre prosélytisme culturelle se rapporte à votre propre intellect, vous êtes le génie des hôtes de ces lieux !

[jolicrasseux]

A ces mots, jolicrasseux ne se sentant plus de joie ouvre un large becet laisse tomber un sacré merci !

BlingBlingDo, si vous goûtez comme moi Berlioz et J.Baker, nous sommes frères ! Merci, Maître Renard.