Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Horst Stein (Conductor), Colon Theater Orchestra (Buenos Aires) (Orchestra), Buenos Aires Orchestra of the Teatro Colón (Orchestra), Birgit Nilsson (Performer), Jon Vickers (Performer), Franz Crass (Performer), Grace Hoffmann (Performer), N. Mittelmann (Performer), Renato Sassola (Performer), Ricardo Yost (Performer), Tullio Gagliardo (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Birgit Nilsson, Jon Vickers, Franz Crass, Grace Hoffmann, N. Mittelmann, et al.
• Orchestra: Colon Theater Orchestra (Buenos Aires), Buenos Aires Orchestra of the Teatro Colón
• Conductor: Horst Stein
• Composer: Richard [Classical] Wagner
• Audio CD (November 30, 1999)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 3
• Label: Video Artists Int'l
• ASIN: B00000I8GG
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,218 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #22 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Divas > Nilsson, Birgit

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Tristan und Isolde: Act 1 - Prelude

2. Tristan und Isolde: Act 1, Scene I - Westwarts schweift der Blick (Isolde, Brangane, Young Sailor)

3. Tristan und Isolde: Act 1, Scene 2 - Frisch weht der Wind der Heimath zu (Isolde, Brangane, Young Sailor, Tristan, Kurwenal, Sailors, Knights, And Attendants)

4. Tristan und Isolde: Act 1, Scene 2 - Hab'Acht, Tristan! (Isolde, Brangane, Young Sailor, Tristan, Kurwenal, Sailors, Knights, And Attendants)

5. Tristan und Isolde: Act 1, Scene Three - Weh! Ach wehe! Dies zu dulden! (Isolde, Brangane)

6. Tristan und Isolde: Act 1, Scene Three - Wie lachend sie mir Liedersingen (Isolde, Brangane)

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Disc: 2

1. Tristan und Isolde: Act 2 - Prelude

2. Tristan und Isolde: Act 2, Scene 1 - Horst du sie noch? (Isolde, Brangane)

3. Tristan und Isolde: Act 2, Scene 2 - Isolde! - Tristan! - Geliebte! (Tristan, Isolde, Brangane)

4. Tristan und Isolde: Act 2, Scene 2 - O sink' hernieder, Nacht der Liebe (Tristan, Isolde, Brangane)

5. Tristan und Isolde: Act 2, Scene 2 - Lauch', Geliebter! - Lass mich sterben! (Tristan, Isolde, Brangane)

6. Tristan und Isolde: Act 2, Scene 2 - Doch unsre Liebe, heisst sie nicht Tristan und Isolde (Tristan, Isolde, Brangane)

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Disc: 3

1. Tristan und Isolde: Act 3 - Prelude

2. Tristan und Isolde: Act 3, Scene 1 - Kurwenal! He! Sag', Kurwenal! (The Shepherd, Kurwenal, Tristan)

3. Tristan und Isolde: Act 3, Scene 1 - Wo ich erwacht weilt'ich nicht (The Shepherd, Kurwenal, Tristan)

4. Tristan und Isolde: Act 3, Scene 1 - Noch losch das Licht nicht aus (The Shepherd, Kurwenal, Tristan)

5. Tristan und Isolde: Act 3, Scene 2 - O diese Sonne! Ha! dieser Tag! (Tristan, Isolde, Kurwenal)

6. Tristan und Isolde: Act 3, Scene 2 - Ha! Ich bin's, sussester Freund (Tristan, Isolde, Kurwenal)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nilsson and Vickers Together, Finally!, December 3, 1999

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Daniel Mitrano (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Audio CD)

Before this recording was available, I often thought Nilsson and Vickers would be the IDEAL Tristan and Isolde together--if only there were a recording. Now there is! Strangely, I had also cast Grace Hoffman as Brangaene in my mind, and she's there too! This is one of those performances (live from Buenos Aires) that no matter how bad the sound balances are, the listener is transported to stage with the singers leaving your headphones and easy chair miles away. This is because the singers' performance transcends the material as a great opera performance should but rarely does. For me to give any opera recording five stars, no less a live performance from 1971, is altogether phenomenal. It's worth any price.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars forget Eaglen & Heppner, here's the real thing, September 26, 2000

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W. Russell (Springfield, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Audio CD)

I really cannot understand all the recent hoopla over Eaglen and Heppner in TRISTAN! Anyone who knows anything about the opera and has heard recordings such as this one (or Nilsson & Windgassen under Bohm on DG) - to say nothing of the old Met broadcasts - will recognize this for the "real thing" rather than a tenuous and uninteresting sight-reading by comparison. Nilsson and Vickers get into the roles and create something truly magic and spellbinding. Stein may not be Furtwangler but he leads a flowing performance with authority and strength. The supporting cast is first-rate. Grab it before it disappears (which the good stuff seems to do with alarming frequency).

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I remember Vickers, July 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Audio CD)

He was a sublime musician. But that was second. He sang with moral authority. He demanded that you feel the music and think about what he was singing. Nilsson simply astonished. What recordings fail to capture was the volume of her voice, which was true loud and soft. This recording captures the two greatest postwar singers in performance.