Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - Princesse, c'est sur vous que mon espoir se fonde

[LilyOfTheValley385]

heavenly peace in her eyes and voice....I can feel how much she loved music. a truly Gods angel she is...

[shnimmuc]

There are 47 Handel operas, and we hear only a hand full. One of the reasons is that only know do we have singers capable of singing them properly. The same goes for other baroque operas.

[andreiameleiro]

I've seen her singing Medee with Mark Padmore conducted by W. Christie in Lisbon 1994. I was then 17 bought one cheap standing ticket. I live in London now and I've seen around 70 operas but this was one of my highlights. I remember it like yesterday. Unforgettable! I've been following Christie's career since.

[RobertBruce3]

I feel such envy. Unforgettable, yes, i'm sure it was... Christie's recording of this opera is something absolutely unique in its complexity and power. So beautiful. One of the best if not the best.

[Cadmium77]

I simply don't regard 19th century opera as being on the same high level as baroque opera at all. There's no comparison. Yet 19th century opera is what we get. You have to work to find baroque opera, but the work is well worth the effort.

[pianomags]

@Cadmium77 Well said you! It's seems so much more real with depth of feeling. I suppose the media promote high notes, all the time and people who haven't heard anything else flock to it as if they were going to see circus freaks. Which reminds me, I'm off to see Cirque du Soleil on the 22nd, can't wait!

[amarantaviera]

@Cadmium77 It's on the same level. It's just different. You get the right singers singing the rep and it's simply extraordinary.

[tamerlano]

She was a genius. I miss her.

[rlee1976]

This is gorgeous! Wow! Charpentier - GOT to find this somewhere and buy it!

GOD- I wish they would go more into depth about French early Baroque operas in music history undergrad classes! SOOOoo much of Monteverdi (not French, but same period), Rameau, Charpentier, etc., gets overlooked and summarized while they focus SOooo much attention on the 19th Century music and act as if that's the foundation when this stuff is its foundation while those later composers LEARNED from those works!

[beauveau63]

i know- we didn't even cover lully or rameau or any french composers of the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries. the nineteenth centuries seems to get so much attention.

[shuunya]

I have quickly fallen into the thrall of LHL.... thanks for the upload of this rare piece by Charpentier. ( I just love LHL;s tone... my favourite mezzo.) Has anyone done this since LHL and William Christie? This has to be such a dramatic piece.

[jijimaomao]

Thank you very much for posting!It is just beautiful! RIP,Lorraine,love you!