Spanish Love Songs New York Festival Of Song (2004)

Bridge's collection of Spanish love songs is taken from a live performance of the New York Festival of Song at the 2004 Caramoor Festival, featuring Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, tenor Joseph Kaiser, and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett. The CD includes not only songs in Spanish or by Spanish composers, but songs with Spanish subject matter or character, by Spanish, Catalan, French, German, and American composers. (...) Hunt Lieberson sings with her characteristic warmth, velvety tone, and penetrating insight into the meaning of the texts. Each of her performances is lustrous and moving, but "Komm, O Tod, von Nacht ungeben," from Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch and Granados' "El mirar de la maja" especially stand out'. (Stephen Eddins, Allmusic).