Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder / Brahms: Alto Rhapsody / Mahler: Lieder / etc
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WAGNER / BRAHMS / MAHLER / BEETHOVEN
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder / Brahms: Alto Rhapsody / Mahler: Lieder / etc
Christa Ludwig (mezzo) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
[ Warner Original Jacket Recordings / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 15 February 2018
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By the time he made these celebrated recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the early 1960s, Otto Klemperer was a grand old man of conducting. Christa Ludwig, by contrast, was in the glowing early prime of her extraordinary career, which encompassed repertoire for both mezzo-soprano and soprano. "Klemperer was marvellous for the singing," she later said, "because he did nothing against the composer." This collection shows the fruits of their collaboration in Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms and Mahler.
'Christa Ludwig's glorious voice is heard here in a magnificent reading of the Alto Rhapsody, attractive and illuminating accounts of the Wesendonck-Lieder and a group of Mahler songs in which the beautifully restrained and poetical alternates with the grandly monumental, the infinitely touching with the gentle and ethereal.' (The Gramophone)
Diapason d'Or, Choc du Monde de la Musique & Timbre de Platine de l'Opéra International, France
Tracks:
WAGNER: Wesendonck-Lieder /·Isoldes Liebestod
BRAHMS: ALTO RHAPSODY
MAHLER: 5 LIEDER
BEETHOVEN: Abscheulicher! ('Fidelio')
