A greatly missed artist who was one of the great contemporary singers of her time, who would have have accomplished even more had she lived.
Keep Them Coming!!!!:
With the second "new" Lorraine Hunt Liberson recording to be released in the past few months, those of us who still lament her too-soon departure have a blessed surprise in this second Wigmore Hall live recording, of 1999. (The other 2008 release is the marvelous Lorraine at Emmanuel album of Bach and Handel, celebrating both Lorraine and Director Craig Smith.) A great wish of mine, to have Lorraine singing Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben, has now been realized. Her interpretations, as usual, span... more info
Incomparable lieder singing by any measure:
In the generation of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, only Jessye Norman and Thomas Hampson among other Americans could claim to be masterful in singing German lieder, and in many ways she leaves them far behind -- neither was as natural as she is, as unaffected in their approach. Hunt Lieberson had a God-given voice allied with innate musicality and the ability to touch audeinces directly in the heart. For want of a better comparison, she was our Kathleen Ferrer. The singer exhibits every facet of her art in... more info
