Lorraine Hunt Lieberson sings Peter Lieberson 'Neruda Songs'
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Free Music Review: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Naruda
Hit: 2 Stars
Great voice, totally uninteresting music. For me, not accessible. Not lyrical enough. Almost funereal. My musical 'horizons' apparently are not broad enough for this one.Free Music Review: Love Songs
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard a clip of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's CD on NPR. Her voice stopped me from attending to other things and drew me to the most haunting music to come out of my radio since Joan Sutherland sang on the Texaco Metropolitan Opera. She sings the poems of Pablo Neruda put to music by her husband, Peter Lieberson, as if this were the last opportunity she would have of telling him how much she loves him. She died shortly after the CD was finished. I only wish she were given the time to sing Shakespeare's sonnets. Free Music Review: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson breaks ones heart with these beautiful songs by her husband.
Hit: 5 Stars
Suberb and heartbreaking! Oh that she were still alive.Free Music Review: Super!
Hit: 5 Stars
I gave this as a gift and the recipient absolutely loved it. And.......thanks for the early deliveryFree Music Review: A Sublime, Deeply Poignant Collaboration Reflects the Love Story Between Two Astonishing Artists
Hit: 5 Stars
It is impossible not to be moved by this wondrous recording by the estimable mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who passed away much too soon at age 52 last year. Possessing one of the most vividly lustrous and naturally radiant voices, she peaked at a later age than most of her fellow singers, allowing her the time and experience to build greater depth and texture into her exquisite interpretations. Sadly, Hunt Lieberson recorded sporadically during her career since she was something of a maverick when it came to managing her career. Beyond her exquisite vocal work on 2004's "Handel Arias" and 2003's "Bach Cantatas BWV 82 & 199", one of my prized possessions is the 2004 DVD of her luminous performance as Irene in the 1996 Glyndebourne Festival production of Handel's "Theodora".
With this posthumous release, we are fortunate to have a recording of her November 2005 performance in Boston's Symphony Hall under the baton of James Levine. Running scarcely over half an hour, the disc is all too brief, but the emotionalism is pungent with every movement. Impressed deeply by several love sonnets written by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, her husband Peter, the composer son of ballerina Vera Zorina and longtime Columbia Records CEO Goddard Lieberson, wrote lush musical settings for five of them. Each poem reveals a facet of love distinctive in its pronouncement as the succession of pieces moves from openly rapturous to inevitable grief at separation. One cannot help but draw parallels between the emotional arc of the compositions and Hunt Lieberson's long-running bout with cancer and her pending fate.
When one hears the unadorned joy in her voice in the first poem, "If your eyes were not the color of the moon", the intractable bond between composer and performer is palpable. The third poem, "Don't go far off, not even for a day" reflects an artist with an innate and highly plangent sense of her brief time on earth. However, it is the fifth poem, "My love, if I die and you don't", which really tugs most at the heartstrings as she sings of the eternal fate of true love in spite of any earthbound limitations a couple will face. The most sublime moment comes when she repeats the word "amor" at the end with a dream-like, faraway tone. This is magnificent, transcendent work from a singer for the ages and a composer whose enduring love for his wife has inspired his most profound work.