BBCSO/Bělohlávek – review

Barbican Hall, LondonPeter Lieberson's five songs to poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda have quickly become renowned since their first performance in 2005. The reason for their special status is that these intensely personal love songs were written to and for the composer's late wife, the mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died from cancer a year after giving the premiere and recording them. Since the songs are so personal and because Hunt Lieberson had a vocal presence of an almost Callas-l...

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