Interview with Dame Janet Baker

Dame Janet Baker in conversation with Norbert Meyn

In this interview Janet Baker talks about her work with Austrian singing teacher Helene Isepp, the conductor Peter Gellhorn and the pianist Paul Hamburger as well as other émigré musicians. She also discusses the overall importance of émigré musicians from Germany and Austria on music in Britain.

This interview is presented as part of the ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "Singing a Song in a Foreign Land", which focuses on musicians who emigrated from Central Europe because of Nazi persecution in the 1930s and 40s.

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This project has been generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Rothschild Foundation