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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Richard [Classical] Wagner, Horst Stein, Colon Theater Orchestra (Buenos Aires)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
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Nilsson and Vickers Together, Finally!
Daniel Mitrano | Ft. Lauderdale, FL | 12/04/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Before this recording was available, I often thought Nilsson and Vickers would be the IDEAL Tristan and Isolde together--if only there were a recording. Now there is! Strangely, I had also cast Grace Hoffman as Brangaene in my mind, and she's there too! This is one of those performances (live from Buenos Aires) that no matter how bad the sound balances are, the listener is transported to stage with the singers leaving your headphones and easy chair miles away. This is because the singers' performance transcends the material as a great opera performance should but rarely does. For me to give any opera recording five stars, no less a live performance from 1971, is altogether phenomenal. It's worth any price."
Forget Eaglen & Heppner, here's the real thing
W. Russell | Springfield, VA USA | 09/26/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I really cannot understand all the recent hoopla over Eaglen and Heppner in TRISTAN! Anyone who knows anything about the opera and has heard recordings such as this one (or Nilsson & Windgassen under Bohm on DG) - to say nothing of the old Met broadcasts - will recognize this for the "real thing" rather than a tenuous and uninteresting sight-reading by comparison. Nilsson and Vickers get into the roles and create something truly magic and spellbinding. Stein may not be Furtwangler but he leads a flowing performance with authority and strength. The supporting cast is first-rate. Grab it before it disappears (which the good stuff seems to do with alarming frequency)."
Wonderful
Daniel Mitrano | 10/17/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I do not own this recording, but have only borrowed it. I wish I had it. It is the best of all the Tristan und Isolde's I have heard. The voices fill the space, and work well with the orchestra demands --- no "disappearing Tristan here, or screeching Isolde" trying to survive the din of all the instruments. And the conductor's reading of the score is vital and vibrant, and in this work, which I have paid to see five times and never stayed awake during once, that is something to say."