Christa Ludwig Archive
The Music Treasury for 4 November 2018 — Christa Ludwig
The Music Treasury present a retrospective of Christina Ludwig’s career.
WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete) – Leading soloists/Vienna Philharmonic/Solti – Decca Pure Audio Blu-ray (14+ hours!)
What a New Year’s gift! Many believe this the greatest recording ever made. If you can believe it, it’s now in the best sound it has ever had, and on a single disc!
MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde – Christa Ludwig, alto/ Waldemar Kmentt, tenor/ Vienna Sym. Orch./ Carlos Kleiber – Vienna Symphoniker
Patient and painstaking restoration allows us to savor in real terms the one Mahler interpretation bequeathed us by Carlos Kleiber.
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 in c minor “Resurrection” – Vienna Philharmonic/ Zubin Mehta/ Ilena Cotrubas, sop./ Christa Ludwig, contralto – Decca audio-only Blu-ray
Another spectacular Mahler Second, this time in hi-res stereo on Blu-ray.
WAGNER: Lohengrin highlights – Jess Thomas, tenor/ Elisabeth Grummer, soprano/ Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano/ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone/ Gottlob Frick, bass/ Otto Wiener, bass/ Vienna State Opera Chorus/ Vienna Philharmonic/ Rudolf Kempe – EMI
Even after almost 50 years, the Kempe recording offers the most intelligent and most ravishing incarnation of Wagner’s romantic opera, an archetype of unconditional love.