Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Walhall: WLCD0367

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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Label:

Walhall

Catalogue No:

WLCD0367

Discs:

3

Release date:

30th July 2012

Barcode:

4035122653670

Medium:

CD
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

New York 8/2/1941 performance broadcast

Lauritz Melchior (Tristan), Kirsten Flagstad (Isolde), Kerstin Thorborg (Brangäne), Alexander Kipnis (King Marke), Julius Huehn (Kurwenal), Emery Darcy (Melot, Sailor), Karl Laufkötter (Shepherd) & John Gurney (Steersman)

Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, Erich Leinsdorf

CD - 3 discs

$22.25

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One of the best ever performances of this opera.

Following the article in Gramophone, this Tristan is a little later than WLC0103, now deleted, but Flagstad is still in glorious voice and the sound is far better than the 1935 recording, albeit from noisy acetates.

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