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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sleep Inducing Tristan, November 23, 2007
This review is from: Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde (Audio CD)
This is the very first recording of Tristan I enountered, and I can still remember the excitement and expectation for devastatingly dramatic and powerful reading by Bernstein, and how disappointed I was when I listened to the Prelude and Liebestod. This must be one of Bernstein's great flops (a bit similar to his Tchaikovsky Pathetique DG recording) he stretches the whole music so much that it loses tension completely and the whole opera becomes sleep inducing dirge.
If you want really great Wagner recordings by Bernstein, get the Sony recordings of Wagner Orchestral music, including overwhelmingly powerful Prelude and Liebestod, immensely grand performance of Tanhauser Overture, Deeply moving rendition of Wesendonk Lieder and Immolation scene from Gotterdamerung.
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