Diva/Mensch pair for Jan 8, 2025

I think the first complete recording of Berg's Lulu was an automatic choice for Best Opera Recording in 1980. It also got Best Classical Album. What could possibly top that, especially with Boulez conducting and the divine Teresa Stratas as the titular quasi-antiheroine.

The Best Classical Performance, Choral award went to Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus doing the Mozart Requiem. Warm, noble, pristinely beautiful.

Diva: Lulu

Mensch: Mozart Requiem