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Spanish Love Songs
Average Customer Review : 4.5/5 based on 7 reviews
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Editorial Reviews
The late Metropolitan Opera star Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, partnered by the brilliant young tenor Joseph Kaiser, and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, gave a concert of Spanish Love Songs in 2004. Their memorable and wide-ranging New York Festival of Song program includes Spanish and Spanish-related songs by Granados, Turina, Ravel, Schumann, Wolf, Sondheim and others. The release of Spanish Love Songs coincides with the Metropolitan Opera debut of Joseph Kaiser, singing the role of Romeo in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, conducted by Placido Domingo. This will be followed immediately by Met performances singing Tamino in The Magic Flute. (Kaiser's Tamino has been widely seen in Kenneth Branagh's recent film of The Magic Flute. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was the winner of the 2007 Grammy Award for 'Best Vocal Recording', for her performance of her husband Peter Lieberson's Rilke Songs (BRIDGE 9178), accompanied by pianist Peter Serkin. Ms. Lieberson's performances were highly regarded for their searing intensity and searching commitment.
Spanish Love Songs takes a whirlwind tour of Iberian culture, from the mystically introspective to the opulently romantic. On Spanish Love Songs we hear the great masters Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Maurice Ravel, fascinated by the beauty of Spanish culture, alongside the music of Spain's greatest composers of song. As an encore, the four performers combine for a delightful performance of Barcelona from Sondheim's Company.
Spotlight Reviews
De España vengo? No, she carries it inside (like so much else) (2008-11-14)
Customer Review : 5
This is one of my (admittedly many) favorites of Lorraine's recordings, and it demonstrates all the fundamental aspects of her artistry. The way she sings Granados, Luna, and Wolf - like no one else - turns entire traditions of singing on their head and makes me hear anew entire genres of music. For example, take the liberal ornamentation in De España vengo. Similar to Kathleen Ferrier's turns in Er, der Herrlichste von allen, but going much further, Lorraine's ornamentation collapses the very distinction between decoration and expression, or between decoration and the melodic line. The ornaments (like so much else in Lorraine's voice and career) come across as tentative and vulnerable and, AT THE SAME TIME, highly virtuosic. That is about as complete a contradiction (and as high a compliment) as I can imagine. Do others hear it this way as well? It reminds me, too, of Ferrier's Du bist die Ruh - where she uses what appears to be the simplest and least artful of a hundred different approaches singers have taken to the climaxes in that song, but what is also emphatically (to me) the most eloquent and powerful. Lorraine's voice has the same qualities of genuineness (artlessness) and interiority (spiritualness) as Ferrier's, but she has in addition to those a mysterious kind of virtuosity. Perhaps it's an appearance of virtuosity? Perhaps it's an appearance of naïveté! That might explain why her Handel, Charpentier, and Rameau are more entrancing than her Bach.
Enjoyable Sound (2008-08-09)
Customer Review : 3
I liked this recording as pleasurable listening, notwithstanding that the singing is not in English except for the last selection (Barcelona, from Sodheim's Company). My two favorite selections were the truly beautiful rendition of La Paloma and the delightful and humorous Barcelona. Since the recording was of a live performance, there is audience applause after a number of the selections, and for me this distracts from the enjoyment of it.
Marvelous recording (2008-02-14)
Customer Review : 5
A wonderful concert from The New York Festival of Song featuring Joseph Kaiser and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Unlike any other recording, you will never tire of listening to this great CD.
Spanish Love Songs (2007-11-25)
Customer Review : 5
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.
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Joseph Kaiser in recital (2007-11-25)
Customer Review : 5
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!
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