The Song Continues Master Class: Mahler's "Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen" 

@J. K. No such thing. The first Tristan was twenty-nine.

the more you listen to Mahler, the more you will realize he is the DEEPEST. listen to Ruckert lieder

try Schwarzkopf for terror.

Sometimes I think nobody has really explained never content nor what she really sings.

Everyone has their opinions, unfortunately. I think her first tempo fit HER very well.

Christa was an outstanding teacher. This student has a naturally gifted middle voice but she has no low notes and she needs to rush through those low parts cause there is no voice. Christa was in the right according to her development. Also, Christa was the last singer alive who sang together with Callas in the same stage and same recording. If you are on stage with Callas as a soloist you are a very special and gifted singer naturally but not every singer who sang with Callas was also a great technician yet Ludwig was not only a natural gifted BIG voice but also a great technician. Rare combination.

But this is not Lucia Popp and the pianist is not Bernstein. Without proper technique and musicality slow tempo is just a sludgefest and has nothing to do with Mahler. It still has to flow and it doesn't. It also doesn't serve the voice. Thus Ludwig is absolutely right by demanding a more fluent reading of the song.

where is that singer nowadays?