By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Published: September 15, 2010
In addition to the Voxare performance on Monday, I also caught the second of the three programs in the Barber survey on Tuesday. It offered the soprano Sarah Wolfson and the pianist Lydia Brown in a glowing account of “Hermit Songs,” a cycle written in the early 1950s for Leontyne Price, who recorded the songs with Barber at the piano for RCA.
Ms. Wolfson sang with luminous sound and impressively focused high notes. A keenly intelligent artist, she projected the words about as clearly as was possible in this small, acoustically resonant room. Ms. Brown played the elaborate piano accompaniments beautifully.
