About this title: Despite what one might initially think, the best performances here are not the Brahms Alto Rhapsody or even the Mahler lieder. No, as great as those performances are -- and they are assuredly among the greatest recordings of those works ever made -- the best performances here are the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and "Abscheulicher!" from Beethoven's Fidelio. Why? Because as gloriously warm and wonderfully radiant as Christa Ludwig was as a mezzo-soprano in the Brahms and Mahler selections -- and there were few who could match her and none that could surpass her -- Christa Ludwig ...
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