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Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Carlos Kleiber, Staatskapelle Dresden a.o.

Posted By: Jannem
Date: 1 Dec 2009 23:36:01
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Carlos Kleiber, Staatskapelle Dresden a.o.

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Carlos Kleiber, Staatskapelle Dresden, Leipzig Radio Chorus
Soloists: Price, Kollo, Fassbaender, Moll, Fischer-Dieskau, Götz, Büchner, Dermota, Hellmich
XLD | FLAC (tracks) | No Log/cue-sheet | Coverart Embedded & High-def JPEG | Libretto (PDF) included | ~980 Mb (20x50MB)
Classical | DDD | Deutsche Grammophon 4CD-set 413 315-2 (1986)


Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde, or Tristan and Isolda) is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1856 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting.

Wagner's composition of Tristan und Isolde was inspired by his affair with Mathilde Wesendonck and the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. Widely acknowledged as one of the peaks of the operatic repertory, Tristan was notable for Wagner's advanced use of chromaticism, tonality, orchestral colour and harmonic suspension. The opera was profoundly influential amongst Western classical composers and provided inspiration to composers such as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Karol Szymanowski, Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. Many see Tristan as the beginning of the move away from conventional harmony and tonality and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical musical in the 20th century.

Performers:
Tristan: René Kollo
Isolde: Margaret Price
Brangäne: Brigitte Fassbaender
König Marke: Kurt Moll
Kurwenal: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Melot: Werner Götz
Seemann Eberhard Büchner
Hirte: Anton Dermota
Steuermann: Wolfgang Hellmich

Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dreseden, Leipzig Radio Chorus
Conductor: Carlos Kleiber

Recorded in Dresden (Lukaskirche)
1980: 26, 27, 29, 31 August & 18-26 October
1981: 5-10 February & 10, 21 April
1982: 27 February & 4 April

Production : Dr.Hans Hirsch
Recording Supervision : Werner Mayer
Recording Engineer : Karl-August Naegler
Editing : Jobst Eberhardt/Rainer Hoepfner/Reinhild Schmidt
Digitally re-mixed for CD : Klaus Hiemann/Werner Mayer


Tracklist:

Disc 1:
1. Tristan und Isolde - Prelude to Act 1. Langsam und schmachtend (10:28)
2. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Westwärts schweift der Blick" (5:29)
3. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Frisch weht der Wind der Heimat zu" (9:22)
4. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Weh, ach wehe! Dies zu dulden" (17:49)
5. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Auf! Auf! Ihr Frauen!" (7:22)
6. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Herr Tristan trete nah!" - "Begehrt, Herrin, was Ihr wünscht" (20:04 )

Disc 2:
1. Tristan und Isolde / Act 1 - "Tristan! - Isolde! Treuloser Holder!" (6:50)
2. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - Prelude (2:00)
3. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Hörst du Sie noch?" (14:17)
4. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Isolde! Geliebte! - Tristan! Geliebter!" (17:29)
5. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe" (5:17)
6. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Einsam wachend in der Nacht" (2:45)
7. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Lausch, Geliebter!" (4:53)

Disc 3:
1. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Doch unsre Liebe, heißt sie nicht Tristan und - Isolde?" (2:31)
2. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "So stürben wir" (8:09)
3. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Rette dich, Tristan!" (1:25)
4. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "Tatest du's wirklich?" (12:12)
5. Tristan und Isolde / Act 2 - "O König, das kann ich dir nicht sagen" (8:47)
6. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - Prelude (4:26)
7. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - (Man hört einen Hirtenreigen/The sound of a shepherd's pipe is heard/On entend une mélodie de berger) (3:01)
8. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Kurwenal! He!" (8:33)
9. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Hei nun! Wie du kamst?" (9:30)

Disc 4:
1. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Noch losch das Licht nicht aus" (5:13)
2. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Noch ist kein Schiff zu sehn!" (11:49)
3. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - Bist du nun tod? …O Wonne! Freude! (9:02)
4. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "O diese Sonne!" (3:22)
5. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Ich bin's, ich bin's" (5:58)
6. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Kurwenal! Hör!" (7:47)
7. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod) (7:23)


Trivium:
Dame Margaret Price was persuaded to sing Isolde for a recording under German conductor Carlos Kleiber. The result, made up from several takes, is one of the most outstanding recorded Isoldes. Efforts to tempt Price to do Isolde on the stage, however, never came to anything. "I'm not a long-distance runner," she insisted. "I'll sing it to my dogs."

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