Lorraine Hunt Lieberson sings Peter Lieberson 'Neruda Songs'
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Free Music Review: A loss to music
Hit: 2 Stars
I had only heard a little of Lorraine Hunt Leiberson. I thought that this was a special person, a contributor to civilized perception. Then I heard she was no longer with us. I feel this as a significant loss to myself and to our society. I'll continue to listen to her recordings, and to mourn her passing. I hope to continue to learn from her.Free Music Review: Neruda done proud
Hit: 5 Stars
The Neruda texts are captivating. The music is excellent and the voice of H-L is without peer. It is a pleasure to listen to this wonderful voice sing pleasant music and clearly articlate some of the finest Spanish poetry of the 20th century.Free Music Review: Exceptional recording
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is a thrilling composition sung with such feeling I couldn't listen just once. Everyone should own this beautiful piece performed with just devotion.Free Music Review: Extraordinarily Moving Music in Extraordinarily Moving Performances
Hit: 5 Stars
I have rarely been so touched at a deep emotional level as I have been by this collection of five songs written as a passionate gift of love by composer Peter Lieberson for his wife, the mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, a transcendent artist. Everything about the work -- from the outpouring of glorious sound and passion from Ms Lieberson to the texts by Pablo Neruda to the rich sounds of the Boston Symphony under James Levine playing Lieberson's richly romantic music -- adds to the emotional power of the performance. If one then understands that this music was written during a time when Ms Hunt Lieberson was struggling with the cancer that ultimately killed her, that the recording was made not out of desperation but out of hope during one of her periods of modest remission, and that she died not long afterwards, it makes the experience all the more powerful.
One must add that there are two other similarly nonpareil recordings -- eerily enough with singers who were either mezzo-soprano or contralto -- that are classics at least partly because they were made just before the singers died: Jan de Gaetani's recording of her husband's chamber orchestrations of songs by Mahler and Berlioz (including a heartbreaking 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen') Jan DeGaetani Sings Berlioz, Mahler and, of course, Kathleen Ferrier's 'Das Lied von der Erde' Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Bruno Walter with the touching dying-away of her last words 'Ewig ... ewig ... ewig'.
One can only hope that Hunt Lieberson, Ferrier and de Gaetani are singing together in Heaven. Ave atque vale.
Scott Morrison
Free Music Review: A fFinal Tribute
Hit: 5 Stars
Lorraine Hunt Leberson was one of those rare singers who sang from her heart
and mind in perfect unity. Her many recordings attest to that fact. This
recording of her husbands composition is a glowing account of there love
for each other and a lasting tribute to their artistry.