"Tristan und Isolde" is one of the most important works by Richard Wagner (1813-1883) and hailed as the "central work of the entire history of music by Leonard Bernstein. Tristan and Isolde mistakenly drink a love potion meant for Isolde and her fiancé Marke. They fatally fall in love with each other and so the drama unfolds. Do they have a chance? Of course not. A quintessential musical drama! This 4CD box (complete recording in 1952) features the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler and singers including Ludwig Suthaus, Kirsten Flagstad, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. A... [Read More]
The Home of Opera series offers treasures from the world’s greatest opera catalogue, presenting some of the most important and admired recordings of complete operas produced by Warner Classics/EMI Classics over the last 60 years
James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus in this production of Wagner's great love story. Featured singers inlcude Jane Eaglen, Benn Heppner, Rene Pape, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen.
Glyndebourne's celebrated production of Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Tristan und Isolde is a supremely intelligent achievement; gravely beautiful, haunting and meditative, it is deeply reflective rather than visceral, fortified by Roland Aeschlimann's stunningly effective set, a womb-like space through which the protagonists move like gods. Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek mirrors Lehnhoff's approach in his sophisticated plumbing of the score's depths, with every shift in texture carefully laid bare by an inspired London Philharmonic Orchestra. Nina Stemme's Isolde and Robert Gambill's Tristan, both glor... [Read More]
Deluxe hard-back edition with original cover of this classic recording featuring Birgit Nilsson and Wolfgang Windgassen in Karl Böhm's incandescent reading. This set includes libretto in original German with English and French translations, plus synopsis in all three languages. The 3CDs are presented alongside a High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc containing the complete opera in 24-bit audio.
3-CDs + Blu-ray Audio disc, in a deluxe hardback presentation with “An introduction to the Opera and its Leitmotifs” and an essay by the recording’s producer, John Culshaw, "Observations on the Characters, music and recording,” illustrated with sketches of his ‘imagined settings’ for the recording. This legendary recording is bonused with the rehearsal excerpts, “The Birth of an Opera,” originally included in the first LP issue, providing a fascinating behind-the-scenes insight into the work.
The emotions that love and death evoke lie in such extreme opposition to one another that in the most poetic of senses, they seem to merge, often with tragic results. No one seemed to understand this better than Richard Wagner, and nowhere did he more poetically express it in words and music than in Tristan und Isolde. Of course, this being opera, performance matters, and in this Bayreuth, 1957 edition of Tristan, offered in splendid sound from the mastertapes and with a stunning cast Nilsson, Windgassen, Hotter, et. Al., led by Wolfgang Sawallisch, a pinnacle of sorts in performance is reache... [Read More]
Waltraud Meier, Ian Storey, Michelle DeYoung, Gerd Grochowski, and Matti Salminen star in this 2007 La Scala production of the Wagner opera conducted by Daniel Barenboim and directed by Patrice Chereau.
Birgit Nilsson was celebrated for her roles in Richard Strauss, and her recordings for Decca are among the “greatest performances on record,” according to Gramophone Magazine. Includes repertoire notes by Michael Kennedy; session photographs; notes by producer John Culshaw about the recording and the Decca “Sonicstage” approach, and synopsis and libretto all in English, French, German
One of the most famous dramatic sopranos of her day, Astrid Varnay was highly regarded and championed by all the great conductors of the time. The recordings on this 10-CD collection all come from the 1950s and present her at the peak of her powers. They include some of her greatest performances in the operas of Wagner, Verdi, Richard Strauss, and Beethoven. Astrid Varnay began her European career at Bayreuth in 1951. Although still only 30, there had already been ten successful years in the USA. Her triumphant debut took place on the stage of the New York Metropolitan Opera. The young singer ... [Read More]
An exciting achievement Solti has the frantic energy but also the sense of fathomless agony in the great love duet, and he draws wonderful playing from the Vienna Philharmonic. This now classic set is perhaps the most complete of those available, for those who value the stereo production as an essential part of their experience of the opera in the home. Gramophone
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