All this week in BBC Radio 3 on Performance on 3, Iain Burnside presents a week of programmes celebrating one of England’s best loved musicians, the mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker.
The programmes include her performances of Lieder and song, opera, oratorio and orchestral song cycles, featuring the music of Bach, Berlioz, Brahms, Britten, Cavalli, Elgar, Faure, Gluck, Handel, Mahler, Purcell, Ravel, Schubert, Schumann, Walton and others.
Follow a time-line of Dame Janet Baker’s life and career


