Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Margaret Price (Isolde), René Kollo (Tristan), Brigitte Fassbaender (Brangaene), Kurt Moll (König Marke), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kurwenal), Werner Götz (Melot), Anton Dermota (Hirt)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber
Kleiber directs a compellingly impulsive reading, crowned by the glorious Isolde of Margaret Price, the most purely beautiful of any complete interpretation on record —
3 CDs
$17.50Contents
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde / Act 1
Work length1:17:30
- Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Eberhard Büchner (tenor), René Kollo (tenor), Gerhard Richter (chorus master)
- Staatskapelle Dresden, Leipzig Radio Choir
- Carlos Kleiber
- Recorded: 1981-02-10
- Recording Venue: Lukaskirche, Dresden
Prelude
Track length10:33
"Westwärts schweift der Blick"
Track length5:26
"Frisch weht der Wind der Heimat zu"
Track length9:27
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Act 2
Work length1:19:42
- Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Werner Götz (tenor), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), René Kollo (tenor), Kurt Moll (bass), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
- Staatskapelle Dresden
- Carlos Kleiber
- Recorded: 1981-02-10
- Recording Venue: Lukaskirche, Dresden
Prelude
Track length2:02
"Hörst du Sie noch?"
Track length14:17
"Isolde! Geliebte! - Tristan! Geliebter!"
Track length17:28
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Act 3
Work length1:16:02
- Anton Dermota (tenor), Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), René Kollo (tenor), Kurt Moll (bass), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Wolfgang Hellmich (baritone), Werner Götz (tenor), Gerhard Richter (chorus master)
- Staatskapelle Dresden, Leipzig Radio Choir
- Carlos Kleiber
- Recorded: 1981-02-10
- Recording Venue: Lukaskirche, Dresden
Prelude
Track length4:30
(Man hört einen Hirtenreigen / The Sound Of A Shepherd's Pipe Is Heard / On entend une mélodie de berger)
Track length3:01
"Kurwenal! He!"
Track length8:33
