Wagner: Lohengrin
Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grümmer (Elsa), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Telramund), Gottlob Frick (Heinrich), Otto Wiener (Herald)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Winner
Kempe gives this music a mystical edge his rivals lack, and he does so with a painter's sense of colour.
Wagner: Lohengrin
Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grümmer (Elsa), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Telramund), Gottlob Frick (Heinrich), Otto Wiener (Herald)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe
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Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Winner
Kempe gives this music a mystical edge his rivals lack, and he does so with a painter's sense of colour.
About
The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI 'The Home of Opera'. This performance of Lohengrin was recorded in 1963 at the Theater an der Wien.
Contents and tracklist
- Gottlob Frick (bass), Otto Wiener (bass), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Elisabeth Grümmer (soprano), Jess Thomas (tenor), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
- Rudolf Kempe
- Recorded: 1963-04-03
- Recording Venue: 23 November - 5 December 1962 & 1-3 April 1963 / Theater an der Wien, Vienna
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJuly 2026Collection Winner
1963
Kempe gives this music a mystical edge his rivals lack, and he does so with a painter's sense of colour.
July 2010
Thomas is blazingly sincere...piloted by Kempe's skill at eliciting the vital, [he] makes much of the recitatives. Christa Ludwig sings Ortrud with a sensuous, beautiful chill and acid contempt...Fischer-Dieskau has the role's vocal measure in placing Telramund as a weak, ambitious, disappointed man
9th July 2013
Kempe’s set gave us the finest Ortrud on disc in Christa Ludwig