"Possibly the best available perfomance of Tannhaeuser on record. Almost ideal conducting and _incredible_ Vinay in the title role. Strange, but it is very hard to find a good recording of this opera. Well-known Solti and Sinopoli sets both have major flaws and gross problems with casting, old recordings with Melchior are in awful sound. This one is well balanced. Maybe the only miscast is Fischer-Dieskau for Wolfram, he sounds too light to me."