Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
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Special offer. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: Handel Arias
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Stubbs, Phoebe Carrai, Margriet Tindemans, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket
If you knew nothing about the background to this 2003 recording it would still be one of the most poignant albums of Handel arias, for the intensity of engagement and communicative power of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Archive Choice
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Special offer. Charpentier, M-A: Médée
RecommendedLorraine Hunt, Mark Padmore, Bernard Deletré, Monique Zanetti & Jean-Marc Salzmann
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
…Christie's realisation of Charpentier's orchestration is decisive, while Hunt Lieberson's final confrontation with Padmore… is as striking a finale as any by Gluck or Berlioz. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Simultaneously sad and uplifting, you’ll be hard pushed to find a performance to match this one for emotional intensity and ability to move the listener...Hunt Lieberson’s rich, pure voice,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Roger Vignoles
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano)
The unique warmth of tone is sounded in the first notes even of the lighter Mahler songs. But there's also a spiritual grace in her approach. Key tracks such as Mahler's 'Ich bin de Welt abhanden... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Solo
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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The Bridge CD is a live performance from the 2004 Caramoor Festival. Its star, without a doubt, is the great mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died less than two years later. ...Hunt Lieberson... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
RecommendedMark Padmore, Anne-Marie Panzarella, Lorraine Hunt, Laurent Naouri & Eirian James
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Early Opera
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Peter Lieberson: Selected Works
RecommendedLorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) & Peter Serkin (piano), Michaela Fukacova (violoncello), William Purvis (horn)
The Odense Symphony Orchestra, Justin Brown, Donald Palma
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Grammy Awards, 49th Awards (2006), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug', etc.
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, Craig Smith
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's performances of these two cantatas are like deeply personal, supplicatory confessionals. The American mezzosoprano has a dark and well-focused sound, and brings words... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
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Berlioz Les Nuits d’Eté & Handel Arias
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
her warm and maternal tone combine with her interpretative commitment and spontaneity to produce wonderful results...Hunt Lieberson's inimitable approach makes a wonderful thing, for instance,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2011, Editor's Choice
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Adams, J: El Niño
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, Willard White
Theatre of Voices, London Voices, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
John Adams's nativity oratorio is a winner, a very palpable hit - an intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical re-telling of the old, old story from a new perspective...you can tell the cast... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Editor's Choice
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