Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Emmanuel

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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Emmanuel

Label:

Avie

Catalogue No:

AV2130

Discs:

1

Release date:

16th June 2008

Barcode:

0822252213027

Medium:

CD
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Emmanuel

Celebrating the Lives of Craig Smith and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson


Includes

Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV30 'Freue dich, erlöste Schar': Kommt, ihr angefochtnen Sunder

Cantata BWV33 'Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ': Wie fürchtsam wankten meine Schritte

John Harbison

Handel:

Hercules: The world, when day's career is run

Hercules: There in myrtle shades

Shannon Snapp (continuo cello)

Hercules: Begone, my fears

Hercules: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears

Danielle Maddon & Lena Wong (violins)

Hercules: Resign thy club and lion's spoils

Hercules: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise

Hercules: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r

Jayne West (soprano)

Hercules: Where shall I fly?


Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano)

The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, Craig Smith (director)

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BBC Music Magazine

August 2008

****

“… a solid achievement, distinguished by the mezzo's remarkable artistry.”

The Observer

15th June 2008

“In this selection of passages from Bach cantatas and arias from Handel's Hercules, recorded at the church, admirers can trace [Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's] growth from low lyric soprano to lush mezzo of perfect technique, intonation and clarity.”

The Telegraph

12th July 2008

“Typically, [Hunt Lieberson] makes each of these arias a confessional drama of the soul. In the process, she turns what should be a springy gavotte from Bach's cantata No 30 into something closer to a dirge. But she is magnificent in the arias Handel wrote for the neurotic, self-tormenting Dejanira in Hercules...Her burnished tone always remains beautiful. Another moving memento of a singer who, to quote one of her colleagues, "sang every performance as if it were her last".”

The Times

27th June 2008

****

“Compiled as a memorial to the mezzo, this archive collection has become a memorial as well to Craig Smith, the founder of the Boston group Emmanuel Music, from which Lieberson first took wing. The voice isn’t quite at full power in the aria from Bach’s Cantata No 30, but you find the authentic emotional blast in Dejanira’s arias from Handel’s Hercules. The recordings don’t have much bloom – but the voice!”

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