 From this time, she turned to lyrical roles in opera, preferring to focus on her career as a concert singer, in early music as well as lieder, often accompanied in the latter by pianist Irwin Gage.She performed most of the soprano parts in Helmuth Rilling's Bach cantata cycle of the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, appearing several times at Rilling's Oregon Bach Festival.At the other end of the spectrum, she commissioned new song cycles by Libby Larsen ("Sonnets from the Portuguese") and Judith Lang Zaimont.