Browse: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano)

her warm and maternal tone combine with her interpretative commitment and spontaneity to produce wonderful results...Hunt Lieberson's inimitable approach makes a wonderful thing, for instance,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The unique warmth of tone is sounded in the first notes even of the lighter Mahler songs. But there's also a spiritual grace in her approach. Key tracks such as Mahler's 'Ich bin de Welt abhanden... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

John Adams's nativity oratorio is a winner, a very palpable hit - an intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical re-telling of the old, old story from a new perspective...you can tell the cast... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002 More…

There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — Sunday Times, 7th December 2022 More…

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's performances of these two cantatas are like deeply personal, supplicatory confessionals. The American mezzosoprano has a dark and well-focused sound, and brings words... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

…Hunt Lieberson brings a rare translucency of tone to Brahms at his most impassioned and his most intimate. When it comes to Schumann's Mignon songs… we hear a pure, pearly line of longing,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Bridge CD is a live performance from the 2004 Caramoor Festival. Its star, without a doubt, is the great mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died less than two years later. ...Hunt Lieberson... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…