Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mezzo Soprano                 Craig Smith, Director  
The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music

title: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Emmanuel

 Celebrating the lives of Craig Smith
and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

release date:  16 June 2008

number:  AV 2130

Avie Records is proud to announce a collection of works and recordings previously unreleased on record by the incomparable Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. 

This beautiful collection of Bach and Handel is a celebration of one of the most important artistic collaborations in music; that of Ms. Lieberson and Emmanuel Music Director Craig Smith, whose untimely passing was earlier this year. 

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s substantial fan base and music lovers in general will be eager to hear these stunning performances, spanning from 1992 - 1999

Track list

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 - 1750

[1] from Cantata BWV 30 - Kommt ihr angefochtnen Sünder         8:46

George Frideric Handel  1685 - 1759

HERCULES (HWV 60)

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson sings the mezzo-soprano role of Dejanira

[2] recit. O Hercules! Why art thou absent from me? (Act 1 Scene 1)   0:46
[3] aria  The world when day's career is run (Act 1 Scene 1)           4:38
[4] recit. Then I am lost! O dreadful oracle! (Act 1 Scene 2)        0:54

[5] aria There in myrtle shades reclined (Act 1 Scene 2)         3:26

  Shannon Snapp, continuo cello

[6] recit. Ye lying omens, hence! (Act 1 Scene 3)         0:10

[7] aria  Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away (Act 1 Scene 3)        4:31

[8] recit. It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongs (Act 2 Scene 2)

  with Jayne West, soprano              0:51   Also Available

[9] aria When beauty sorrow’s liv’ry wears (Act 2 Scene 2)       4:46

  Danielle Maddon & Lena Wong, violins

[10] recit. O glorious pattern of heroic deeds! (Act 2 Scene 5)        0:38

[11] aria Resign thy club and lion's spoils (Act 2 Scene 5)               6:06  
[12] aria  Cease, ruler of the day, to rise (Act 2 Scene 6)           3:59
[13] aria Joys of freedom, joys of pow’r (Act 2 Scene 8)        3:56

  with Jayne West, soprano    

[14] Mad Scene: Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head?  (Act 3 Scene 3)   6:39

Johann Sebastian Bach

[15] from Cantata BWV 33 - Wie fürchtsam wankten meine Schritte     10:43

  John Harbison, conductor      

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