Christa Ludwig died last week, so I listened to the gold standard of Mahler’s Der Abschied (The Farewell) again: Klemperer, Ludwig, Wunderlich.
The longest movement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), is — no seriously — among the greatest achievements of the humankind. I can already hear some readers objecting, why not the entir…