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Two years before she died, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson gave this recital focusing on the theme of ‘love’ at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois. In this live recording, she displays her own very special sense of drama in a programme ranging over several centuries and covering every facet of this universal emotion, accompanied by an eminent partner, the pianist Peter Serkin.
Brahms: Unbewegte Laue Luft, Op. 57/8
Brahms: Ruhe, Süßliebchen, Im Schatten, Op. 33/9
Brahms: Von Ewiger Liebe, Op. 43/1
Handel: La Lucrezia, HWV 145 - O Numi Eterni!, Già Superbo Del Mio Affanno
Handel: La Lucrezia, HWV 145 - Ma Voi Forse Nel Cielo, Il Suol Che Preme
Handel: La Lucrezia, HWV 145 - A Voi, Padre, Consorte, Già Nel Seno Comincia Compir
Debussy: Trois Chansons De Bilitis - La Flûte De Pan
Debussy: Trois Chansons De Bilitis - La Chevelure
Debussy: Trois Chansons De Bilitis - Le Tombeau Des Naïades
Mozart: Dans Un Bois Solitaire, K 308
Mozart: Als Luise Die Briefe Ihres Ungetreuen Liebhabers Verbrannte, K 520
Mozart: Abendempfindung An Laura, K 523
Mozart: Eine Kleine Deutsche Kantate, K 619 (Excerpt)
Handel: Guilio Cesare, HWV 17 - Act 1: Son Nata A Lagrimar
Burleigh: Deep River
Telson: Baghdad Cafe - Calling You
March 2009
****
“Peter Serkin brings special qualities to the Brahms group… while his delicacy in Debussy's Trois Chansons de Bilitis is magical. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson equals him in her musical insight and in her complete security of approach to her own instrument. Her huge potential range of dynamics allows her to shape each song individually, while her poised understating of Pierre Louÿ's Debussyan texts makes them infinitely suggestive.”
The Independent on Sunday
22nd February 2009
“Recorded at the Ravinia Festival two years before her death, this recital of ecstatic, grave and elegant love songs is a testament to the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s interpretive intelligence...Hunt Lieberson’s intoxicating mezzo slides through several centuries of musical styles…”
July 2009
“She truly was one of the great singers of our time… what we hear now reaffirms it. The performance of the Lucretia cantata alone would be sufficient. …Hunt Lieberson brings nobility to the full range of emotions and … an extraordinary sense of identifications with the suffering woman. The voice itself was a noble instrument: warm, full-bodied and seamless in its passage over the vocal registers.”
7th April 2009
*****
“This heart-rending recording commemorates one of the few truly great singers of
our time – the American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson who died from breast cancer in 2006 at the age of 52. Like Kathleen Ferrier, whose fate she shared, Hunt Lieberson's voice has a distinctive
viola-ish timbre which made it peculiarly suited to the expression of deep and melancholy emotion. In this overwhelmingly intense live recital, sensitively accompanied by Peter Serkin, she sings Brahms and
Mozart lieder, Handel's dramatic cantata Lucrezia, Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis, and an almost unbearably moving account of the spiritual Deep River. It's hard to listen without weeping.”
5th April 2009
“The American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson gave this recital two years before she died in 2006. It shows this revered artist at her ardent and emotional best. She always prized the spontaneity of live performance above all and this CD captures her vitality and warmth, and her audible rapport with an audience.”
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Brahms: Unbewegte Laue Luft, Op. 57/8
