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CANTATAS 82 & 199 Bach Hunt Lieberson Nonesuch 79692 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson had one of the most beautiful mezzos I've ever heard.

SP Schumann/BrahmsSongs Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo), Julius Drake (piano) (Wigmore Hall Live WHLive 0024) £8.

SCHUMANN AND BRAHMS Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Wigmore Live) .

That was missing at the Barbican, but we had marvellous singing, from the authoritative ranting of Valens, the President, sung with enormous vigour and suppleness by Matthew Rose, a great bass already, to the gentleness and determination of Theodora, sung by Geraldine McGreevy, and the character with the loveliest music of all, Irene, a lovely but finally not a deep performance from Anne Sofie von Otter, who had the admittedly impossible task of matching our memories of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, to whom the performance was properly dedicated.

His excessively slow tempo for the alto song "O Mensch" brought it repeatedly to a standstill, though it presented no legato vocal problems to the soloist, the extraordinary Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

And Handel's stately and very lovely score is quite beautifully sung (Susan Gritton, Robin Blaze and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson lead an outstanding cast) and played with exquisite refinement by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Harry Bicket.

It is utterly musical, and in his touching emotional directness I recognise qualities from classical singers such as the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Karita Mattila.

The contralto Lorraine Hunt Lieberson will soon have more posthumous records toher name than she did live ones, so vastly has she sold since her death twosummers ago, aged 52.