From Fred Child, Host of Performance Today
"Amor mio, si muero y tu no mueres" from Neruda Songs (Peter Lieberson) performed by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Peter Lieberson wrote his "Neruda Songs" only four years ago, but it's already become a sentimental favorite for those who've heard it. For the powerfully simple, heartbreaking beauty of the music itself, but also for the story behind it. Lieberson wrote the music for his wife, Mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, to sing. She was fighting breast cancer at the time. She premiered Neruda Songs with the Boston Symphony in the fall of 2005, recorded the piece and then, in July of 2006, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson died. The words are from love poems by Pablo Neruda, tracing the entire arc of love from first blush, through the bloom of passion, to death and final parting. Hearing Lorraine Hunt Lieberson sing the music written for her by her husband is almost unbearably sweet and sad. The final verse begins "My love, if I die and you don't, let's not give grief an even greater field...this meadow where we find ourselves, O little infinity! We give it back. But Love, this love has not ended, it is like a long river."
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