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Disc 1:

Extraits
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Tristan und Isolde - Prelude to Act 1. Langsam und schmachtendOrchester der Bayreuther Festspiele10:38Album Only
Listen  2. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Westwärts schweift der Blick"Birgit Nilsson 5:33£0.79
Listen  3. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Frisch weht der Wind der Heimat zu"Peter Schreier 9:17Album Only
Listen  4. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Weh, ach wehe! Dies zu dulden"Birgit Nilsson18:33Album Only
Listen  5. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Auf! Auf! Ihr Frauen!"Birgit Nilsson 6:50£0.79
Listen  6. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Herr Tristan trete nah!" - "Begehrt, Herrin, was Ihr wünscht"Birgit Nilsson17:56Album Only
Listen  7. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Tristan! - Isolde! Treuloser Holder!"Wolfgang Windgassen 6:19£0.79


Disc 2:

Extraits
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - PreludeOrchester der Bayreuther Festspiele 1:58£0.79
Listen  2. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Hörst du Sie noch?"Birgit Nilsson13:07Album Only
Listen  3. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Isolde! Geliebte! - Tristan! Geliebter!"Wolfgang Windgassen15:06Album Only
Listen  4. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe"Wolfgang Windgassen 4:49£0.79
Listen  5. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Einsam wachend in der Nacht"Christa Ludwig 2:28£0.79
Listen  6. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Lausch, Geliebter!"Birgit Nilsson 4:09£0.79
Listen  7. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Doch unsre Liebe, heißt sie nicht Tristan und - Isolde?"Birgit Nilsson 2:11£0.79
Listen  8. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "So stürben wir"Wolfgang Windgassen 7:34Album Only
Listen  9. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Rette dich, Tristan!"Eberhard Waechter 1:41£0.79
Listen10. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Tatest du's wirklich?"Martti Talvela11:03Album Only
Listen11. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "O König, das kann ich dir nicht sagen"Wolfgang Windgassen 8:07Album Only


Disc 3:

Extraits
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - PreludeOrchester der Bayreuther Festspiele 4:14£0.79
Listen  2. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - (Man hört einen Hirtenreigen/The sound of a shepherd's pipe is heard/On entend une mélodie de berger)Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele 2:34£0.79
Listen  3. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Kurwenal! He!"Erwin Wohlfahrt 8:08Album Only
Listen  4. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Hei nun! Wie du kamst?"Eberhard Waechter 9:18Album Only
Listen  5. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Noch losch das Licht nicht aus"Wolfgang Windgassen 4:59£0.79
Listen  6. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Noch ist kein Schiff zu sehn!"Eberhard Waechter11:13Album Only
Listen  7. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Bist du nun tot?"Eberhard Waechter 9:03Album Only
Listen  8. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "O diese Sonne!"Wolfgang Windgassen 3:11£0.79
Listen  9. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Ich bin's, ich bin's"Birgit Nilsson 4:59£0.79
Listen10. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Kurwenal! Hör!"Erwin Wohlfahrt 7:21Album Only
Listen11. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod) (Isolde)Birgit Nilsson 6:15£0.79

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  1. Tristan und Isolde
    Composed by Richard Wagner
    Performed by Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
    with Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela, Eberhard Waechter, Claude Heater, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Gerd Nienstedt, Peter Schreier
    Conducted by Karl Böhm

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bayreuth at its best, 15 Jun 2005
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I was lucky enough to be present at the last outing of this Wieland Wagner production with essentially the same cast - the curtain calls went on for more than 45 minutes!

Undoubtedly, this is a totally exceptional performance - one of those live performances that catches fire from the first enigmatic rise and fall to the famous 'Tristan' chord and never lets you go until long after the last note of the Liebestod has died away. Bohm (often accused of being kapellmeisterish at the time) is electric - the music ebbs and flows with the passion of the protagonists, at times whipped up to almost hysterical proportions (Tristan's Act 2 arrival and the height of his dementia in Act 3 for example), at others achingly lonely (Marke's monologue or the shepherd's piping come to mind).

The singing, too, is unsurpassed. Nilsson and Windgassen are in superlative form throughout - Windgassen tired in Act 3? His character is dying, for God's sake - and he certainly rises to the excitements of Isolde's arrival and the ripping of the bandages from his wound. Christa Ludwig sings Brangane's warnings from the tower with a haunting rapture that matches that of the lovers downstage. The much-missed Martti Talvela sings his (presumably huge) socks off as Marke, turning a character who can be a bore into, for his moment, the most sympathetic and moving person in the opera.

I've never got it with Furtwangler and Flagstad by the time of that performance sounded too maternal for my taste. Bernstein is brave and at times fascinating but his cast aren't as good. Karajan is too overcooked and Vickers - often a great Tristan on stage - was too self-indulgent here. Kleiber (who I also heard, magnificently, at Bayreuth) conducts wonderfully and has a beautifully sung Isolde in Margaret Price, but his Tristan is the rather pedestrian Kollo.

For me, this Bohm recording is the yardstick Tristan and a great example of Bayreuth at its absolute best. The engineers capture the unique Bayreuth sound well, too.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Er...., 26 Oct 2001
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WHAT!? How can a reviewer writing below criticise Windgassen's performance in Act III?? It's perhaps the greatest display of vocal 'acting' you will ever hear anywhere. The intensity and passion of Windgassen's performance guarantees the reputation of this classic set. Bohm IS fast. He's sometimes hectic, wild and passionate. But, come on! this is 'Tristan' after all. Perhaps the MOST extreme, demanding, intense opera ever written. Just listen to the Act III moment where Tristan, in his madness, imagines seeing Isolde's ship on the horizon. Oh boy...such music and such an incredible performance. Or listen to Nilsson and Windgassen in the wondeful Act II duet: 'O Sink Herneider'. Worth the price of the set on its own. The sound quality is, for Bayreuth, totally satisfactory with very few stage intrusions and a natural, warm ambience. The Bayruether Festspiele orchestra is accurate and respond to Bohm's thrilling direction wonderfully.
Wagner himself stated that, after the score was completed, he was scared of the finished result and the intensity of the emotion enshrined therein. And, listening to this performance, you can understand his concerns. It's an extraordinary performance of an extraordinary opera.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Intensity personified., 10 Nov 2000
Because Bohm decided to record each act individually there are none of the problems of stamina that can affect other live performances. Nilsson is ecstatic and incredibly moving and Windgassen, while sometimes at a sonic disadvantage to her, provides a reading of such intensity that there can be few to match him. There are no weeknesses in the cast and Bohm, while sometimes on the urgent side builds climaxes wonderfully well. The final Liebestod is so moving that it becomes almost overwhelming and the sound quality is superb. For raw emotional intensity this version cannot be beaten.
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5.0 out of 5 stars White hot and superbly sung
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5.0 out of 5 stars why not give it 5 stars?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Can there be a better recording of a better opera?
From the opening Prelude to the final chords of the Liebestodt this performance radiates power and beauty. Nilsson excels, after 3 hours of work reaching a spectacular finale. Read more
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