Spanish Love Songs [Live]

New York Festival of Song (Orchestra), Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Performer), Joseph Kaiser (Performer), Steven Blier (Performer), Michael Barrett (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Joseph Kaiser, Steven Blier, Michael Barrett
• Orchestra: New York Festival of Song
• Audio CD (October 1, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Bridge Records, Inc.
• ASIN: B000W7Y31I
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #167,521 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Musical to the Core, October 21, 2007

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Lois C. Fleming (Chicago Suburbs, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spanish Love Songs (Audio CD)

If you're under the Lorraine Hunt Lieberson spell, or you've not yet heard her and you're wondering about the effusive reviews of those who are avidly snapping up every recording she made during her too-short life, you won't be disappointed by this addition. It's classic Lorraine, with a pleasing variety of songs, the inimitable passion and depth of musical and dramatic engagement, in addition to "the voice."

Since it's a live recording, you are transported to an occasion in time, with an audience responding. The reminder that no further such occasions are possible, make a release like this all the more treasured. The booklet contains interesting comments from her fellow musicians about her musical impact and artistry.

When are we going to get her singing Didon on a Les Troyen release from the Met - both audio CD and DVD, please?!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Joseph Kaiser in recital, November 24, 2007

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Ronald W. Johns "Ron Johns" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spanish Love Songs (Audio CD)

This live recording from Caramoor in 2004 of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Joseph Kaiser w/2 excellent supporting pianists is a total pleasure. The rising Canadian tenor Joseph Kaiser shows that he can be persuasive in the song literature as well as in opera. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, of course, is a superb dramatic interpreter but proves in the Ravel vocalise that she can act with her voice even without words. The solos are wonderful but the duet work struck me as the most rewarding, particularly the unexpected and well dramatized Sondheim "Barcelona" encore. Any LHL fan will have to have this!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spanish Love Songs, November 24, 2007

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Neil Haslett (Naples, Fl. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spanish Love Songs (Audio CD)

No one excels Lorraine Hunt. Her impact is so strong on someone who appreciates fine singing. Unfortunately now, her outstanding contribution to the art of singing exists only on her recordings. This album is another example of her versatility along with Schumann, Brahms and Mahler songs, Handel and Bach Operas, Oratorios and Cantatas. I only wish there were more.