Bach Cantatas
BWV 82 and 199

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music
Craig Smith, Conductor

$17.00

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's new recording of Cantata 82, on Nonesuch, is beautiful enough to stop a war, if anyone thought to try.

— Alex Ross, The New Yorker

Contains some of the most intense and moving Bach singing to be found on record.

— Mark Swed, LA Times

[This CD captures Lieberson’s art] — the precision of tuning, the eloquence of phrase and line, the vividness of her personal response to the words, the complete candor and honesty… [She] is ably supported by Smith and the instrumentalists of Emmanuel Music, most particularly the plangent oboe of Peggy Pearson… [and] the compassionate viola of Betty Hauck. Listening to this recording is a musical experience, but what it records is the rarest kind of music making, the kind that becomes a spiritual experience too.

— Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's singing… is velvety-toned, generously phrased and unfailingly gets to the expressive core of every phrase. The orchestra does its bit, too — the oboe solos in both cantatas are models of elegance… [This disc] harks back to another, more expansive age.

— Andrew Clements, The Guardian

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