ANNA WEESNER: MY MOTHER IN LOVE <br> BRIDGE 9588Winner of a 2019 Independence Foundation Grant, the 2018 Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music, as well as an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Anna Weesner has also received Guggenheim and Pew Fellowships. Ms. Weesner studied at Yale and Cornell, and is Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. BRIDGE 9588

Very strongly recommended

“Every one of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s recordings is a treasure

the artist turns to the last three piano compositions of Johannes Brahms

imbued with the anger

tonally focused songs here are culled from more than a half century of her career and handled with much care

Chopin wrote the delightful Polonaise Brillante calling it “nothing more than a glittering trifle for the salon

Berman is a superb pianist

Orion String Quartet

Annotator Allan Kozinn writes: "if audiences listened as devotedly to contemporary piano scores as to the great works of the 17th through early 20th centuries

playing music that demands the highest virtuoso technique

giving its first concert for a sold-out audience at the Orford Arts Centre

and Lawrence Wiliford and Luminous Voices shimmer throughout