Lohengrin pre-game

In anticipation of the Met Lohengrin coming in April...here's Karita Mattila and Ben Heppner in Solti's wonderfully warm 1995 Meistersinger recording, with the Chicago Symphony and Chorus. Solti's last Wagner recording, incidentally, and like a billion times more enjoyable than his 1975 effort which featured Rene Kollo sounding like ass.

• Mattila and the quintet (mp3)
• Heppner's Preislied (mp3)