Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Ludwig Suthaus (Tristan) Kirsten Flagstad (Isolde) Blanche Thebom (Brangaene) Josef Greindl (Konig Marke) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Kurwenal) Edgar Evans (Melot) Rudolf Schock (Hirt) Rhoderick Davies (Steuermann) Rudolf Schock (Stimme eines jungen Seemanns) Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler BBC Music Magazine January 2012 “the two leads have never been equalled. The Phiharmonia Orchestra is at its absolute peak, too; and, working in long takes, the result is that the unique intensity and continuity of this score is caught as it has never been again.” Penguin Guide 2010 *** “Furtwängler's concept is spacious from the opening Prelude onwards, but equally the bite and the drama are vividly conveyed, matching the nobility of Flagstad's portrait of Isolde...It stands among Furtwängler's finest memorials, still unsurpassed by later versions in its spacious concentration and intensity.”