Posted by Anonymous 4 on March 29, 2006, 8:49:55, in reply to "Re: Tristan Records" There is nothing that needs to be said about Kleiber. If you know why the man is seen as a genius, I needn't explain why I recommend his conducting on Tristan. Kollo is marvelous, but I'm a Kollo-fan, so take a little caution. However, he is in nice voice. Price is simply divine. My favorite Isolde by a landslide and the only one who actually makes Isolde sound like the young girl she is, which makes it theatrically very interesting. Dieskau and Fassbaender are magnificent too, tho Dieskau is not to everyone's taste. Best part about it all though, is the Staatskapelle Dresden's playing. Imo _the_ single best Wagnerian orchestra in the world. They have it all. The sound is warm, elegant, stunningly transparent and overall gorgeously beautiful, without ever being' thin. Other recommendations coul/might/would be the standard Böhm (where Windgassen is actually very nice but Nilsson is in her worst soprano machine mode...which you might or might not object to), the Karajan (Dernesch/Vickers in excellent form and Karajan in a not too transparent but inspired mood) and certainly also the Solti (who often managed to 'tame' Nilsson into some actual singing and where Fritz Uhl is imo the best and most underrated Tristan on record. However, the person who let Regina Resnik into the recording studio should get life term in prison and let's not even start to talk about Arnold van Mill as Marke. Conducting is very energetic without the psychopathic orgasms from his Ring and the VPO is reasonably well-behaved).
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I second the (sort of) recommendation on Kleiber. The sound isn't as good as one would have wished though...the dynamic range is very wide, which initially sounds good, but eventually gets tremendously on the nerves since you are running to and from the volume knob.
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