Julianne Baird
Julianne Baird is an accomplished early music singer who brings scholarly expertise and a clear soprano voice to bear on a wide repertory of music, primarily from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. She has made dozens of solo recordings for the Dorian, Koch, L'Oiseau-Lyre, and Albany labels, among others, and appears as a soloist on some of the best complete recordings of Baroque opera and oratorio available in the catalog.
Baird began her career singing with the Waverly Consort and other ensembles. Her first major engagement was in the world premiere of Steve Reich's Tehillim with the New York Philharmonic in 1983 -- a foray into contemporary music that, while not especially relevant to the rest of her work, nevertheless gave her career a boost. Throughout the rest of the 1980s and 1990s, Baird solidified her reputation as one of early music's most charismatic young performers, appearing internationally in works of Handel, Bach, Purcell, and Monteverdi. In concert, she also explored the lute song repertory, French, Italian, and German solo cantatas, and Renaissance vocal works.
Her extensive musicological education (including a Ph.D. from Stanford University) has allowed her to combine her natural musicality and vocal gifts with an uncommon degree of stylistic knowledge and understanding. The results, thankfully un-academic in sound and feeling, have made her popular with conductors and audiences alike. She has been particularly successful as an interpreter of Handel in general and of the Messiah in particular, where her clear sound and judicious ornamentation always seem right at home.
On occasion, Baird has ventured into eighteenth and nineteenth century works. Her recording of Mozart songs for Dorian captures the composer's crisp style, if not always his warmth and humor. Her performances of Schubert include a unique recording of the 18-song version of the Winterreise song cycle.
Since 1989, Baird has served on the faculty of New Jersey's Rutgers University, where she has earned a reputation as a committed and capable teacher. She is also in demand nationwide for master classes and recitals.
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Vocal Recital: Baird, Julianne - Johnson, R. / Morley, T. / Lanier, N. / Wilson, J. / Campion, T. (The english lute song)
Klassiek - Released by Dorian on 1 jan. 1988
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Songs of Love and War (Italian Dramatic Songs of the 17th and 18th Centuries) (Songs of Love and War)
Klassiek - Released by Dorian on 31 aug. 1993
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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas Nos. 8, 78 & 99
Joshua Rifkin, Julianne Baird, Allan Fast, Frank Kelly, Jan Opalach, Bach Ensemble, The
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 28 jun. 1989
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A Baroque Christmas from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Aulos Ensemble, Julianne Baird
Kerstmuziek - Released by Musical Heritage Society on 10 mei 2019
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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas Nos. 140 & 51
Joshua Rifkin, Julianne Baird, Bach Ensemble, The
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 21 okt. 1987
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Lute and Vocal Music - Monteverdi, C. / Frescobaldi, G. / Negri, C. / Borrono, P.P. / Caccini, G. (The Italian lute song)
Klassiek - Released by Dorian on 1 jan. 1996
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Une sélection de mélodies anglaises avec luth (Greensleeves)
Klassiek - Released by Dorian on 1 jan. 1989
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Telemann: 6 Moral Cantatas, TWV 20:29-34
Julianne Baird, Steven Zohn, Eve Miller, Leon Schelhase
Klassiek - Released by Centaur Records, Inc. on 6 apr. 2018
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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas Nos. 202 & 209
Julianne Baird, Bach Ensemble, The, Joshua Rifkin
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 3 dec. 1988
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L'année italienne (Georg Friedrich Händel -Antonio Vivaldi)
Klassiek - Released by Dorian on 1 jan. 1991
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Songs for Lena
Ryan de Ryke, Julianne Baird, Eva Mengelkoch
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 28 mei 2021
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Christmas Baroque Music (In Dulci Jubilo)
Julianne Baird, Aulos Ensemble
Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) - Released by Centaur Records, Inc. on 1 jan. 2000
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Les Amours de Mai - Long Songs in the Age of Ronsard
Parthenia / A Consort of Viols, Julianne Baird, Robert Mealy
Klassiek - Released by MSR Classics on 9 mrt. 2010
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Mélodies (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Klassiek - Released by Dorian on 31 aug. 1993
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Clérambault: Dramatic Cantatas
Julianne Baird, Music's Re-creation
Klassiek - Released by Meridian Records on 10 nov. 2009
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Awake, Sweet Love - The Music of John Dowland
The Robert De Cormier Singers and Ensemble, Julianne Baird, David Tayler
Klassiek - Released by Arabesque Recordings on 1 jan. 1991
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Teasin' - Turn of the Century Parlor Songs & Rags
Julianne Baird, Rudolph Palmer, Magic Circle Ensemble
Klassiek - Released by Helicon Records on 1 jun. 2009
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La Giuditta
Klassiek - Released by Albany Records on 1 jan. 2000
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Telemann: Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst
Music's Re-creation, Julianne Baird, James Bowman
Klassiek - Released by Meridian Records on 23 jan. 2007
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Handel: Nine German Arias & Trio Sonatas
Julianne Baird, Tempesta di mare
Liederen - Released by Chandos on 1 jul. 2007
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Handel: Italian Solo Cantatas and Instrumental Works
Julianne Baird, John Daornenburg
Klassiek - Released by Meridian Records on 9 dec. 2009
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