Which CD recording is best of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde?

[Xu min]

I am new to Wagner's works, so can anybody tell me which one is the
best recording CD of his 'Tristan und Isolde'? I prefer the recordings
that is slow but expresses deep feelings.

Thanks!

[Arthur La Porta]

The Bohm/Bayreuth recording on DG is the one I prefer, although it is
certainly not slow. Karajan's EMI recording might suit you better.

[Matthew B. Tepper]

Xu min <xu...@ima.org.sg> wrote in
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> I am new to Wagner's works, so can anybody tell me which one is the
> best recording CD of his 'Tristan und Isolde'? I prefer the recordings
> that is slow but expresses deep feelings.

There is no "best"; but standard recommendations include:

Furtwängler, commercial recording with Flagstad and Suthaus on EMI;
Reiner, live performance from Royal Opera with Flagstad and Melchior on
Naxos or VAIA

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[Akira Allen]

Furtwangler/EMI (good mono sound)
Karajan/EMI
Bernstein/Philips (slow, currently nla, I think)

Alex

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[Richard Loeb]

Furtwangler - no question
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[Sol L. Siegel]

Xu min xu...@ima.org.sg writes:

You've just described the 1951 EMI recording by Flagstad and
Suthaus, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler.

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[HenryFogel]

>Xu min xu...@ima.org.sg writes:
>
>>I am new to Wagner's works, so can anybody tell me which one
>>is the best recording CD of his 'Tristan und Isolde'? I prefer the
>>recordings that is slow but expresses deep feelings.

If you don't mind monaural sound from the early 1950s, the EMI recording
conducted by Furtwangler is a classic, and matches your description. A more
modern stereo recording that is very beautiful and also matches your
description, but is hard to find, is the Decca recording conducted by Reginald
Goodall, with Linda Esther Gray and John Mitchinson.

Henry Fogel

[Tag Gallagher]

Kleiber/Flagstad/Svanholm. But sound isn't ideal.

[Todd Kay]

If you get the Karajan/Vickers/Dernesch/EMI recording that has been recommended
here several times (and, by the way, that would be *my* recommendation in
stereo, supplemented by Flagstad/Melchior/Reiner on Naxos for historical), try
to get the mid-nineties midprice version in the white box with a drawing of a
ship. MDT, for one, sends that version out. It sounds noticeably better than
the earlier one from the eighties, which has a photograph from the production
on the cover and the word "Karajan" emblazoned across the top, and still seems
to be the one in stock in US shops.

========Todd Kay========

[Samir Golescu]

Opinions on de Sabata's, bad recording and all apart?

regards,
SG

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[Rob Foot]

I would agree about Furtwangler, but then he is matchless in Wagner. I have
also a great fondness for Carlos Kleiber's DG recording with Price and
Kollo, but it does not match the requirement for 'slow but expresses deep
feelings'. Fast and frenetic more like.

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