The history of Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs is so freighted with emotion that it's difficult to listen to them with any objectivity. The great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda wrote 100 Love Sonnets (1960) for Matilde Urrutia, who later became his wife, and Peter Lieberson set five of them for his wife, mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Lieberson ...
The three compositions by Peter Lieberson recorded here were written around the turn of the twenty first century and demonstrate the depth and breadth of his musical imagination. Lieberson's music is atonal, leavened by a strong lyrical impulse and attention to the importance of melody. The Rilke Songs, the first of two cycles written for his wife ...
London's Wigmore Hall occasionally releases recordings of memorable performances in its space, and this CD documents a remarkable 1998 recital by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. She's in gorgeous voice, with a creamy consistency over the broad range that this repertoire traverses. As is typical of her performances, she sings with a passionate intensity ...
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