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Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90

 
Classical Work: Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90
 
  • Date: 1857 -1859
  • Composer: Richard Wagner
  • Period: Romantic (1820-1869)

Review

Wagner's stated intention to write an opera based on the legend of Tristan and Isold, of whom he had read in the thirteenth century narrative poem by Gottfried von Strassburg, first appears in a letter to Franz Liszt of December 16, 1854. The earliest musical sketches date from December 1856, by which date Wagner had already completed the text for Der Ring des Nibelungen, as well as the music for Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, and through Act Two of Siegfried. Wagner had also completed three of his most important writings on the aesthetics of drama.

The composition of Tristan und Isolde is entwined in a nexus of Wagner's personal and theoretical concerns. In August 1857, Wagner stopped work on the music for Siegfried, in order to set to work full time on Tristan because, as stated in his 1860 essay The Music of the Future, he wanted to compose an opera of more modest scale with a chance of being produced. The music-drama was completed in Lucerne in March 1859. Wagner's had also composed five songs to poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, his patron's wife, with whom he had become deeply infatuated, two of which he designated as studies for Tristan und Isolde.

Wagner himself acknowledged that with the composition of Tristan, he transcended the musical and dramaturgical theories he set out in his earlier treatises. Indeed, the musical language of Tristan has long been acknowledged as the beginning of musical modernism. The harmonic language of Tristan, heaving as it does with prolonged courses of unresolved dissonances, not only enacts musically the sexual tension between the opera's two central characters, but also points to the liberation of dissonance from the constraints of tonality that Arnold Schoenberg and others in the twentieth century would champion. The Prelude to Tristan fully exemplifies Wagner's forward-looking approach to both harmony and the issue of musical form -- or, some would say, formlessness -- that operates centrally in his music-dramas. Alfred Lorenz argued in his 1924 study, The Musical Form of Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde", that the opera's prelude and three acts consist of large-scale Bogen ("arch," e.g., ABA; Prelude-Act I, and Act Two) and Bar (e.g., AAB; Act Three) forms, and that the entire opera-prelude and all acts combined falls into a giant Bogen form. In 2000, Robert Bailey argued that the form of the Prelude to Tristan can be understood to unfold in cycles of repeating phrase units. The Prelude also unfolds Wagner's Leitmotif technique, in which instrumental music introduces central motives which correspond with characters and ideas. Wagner seems to have explored the implications of one of Tristan's central Leitmotif -- that consisting of four ascending chromatic pitches and introduced by the oboe in the opening measures of the Prelude -- in his song "Im Treibhaus," which was one of the five Wesendonck songs. Additionally, a strong connection exists between the music of the Act Two love scene of Tristan and that of another study for Tristan, Wagner's earlier Wesendonck song, "Träume." ~ All Music Guide

Albums with Complete Performances of the Work

Title Date
Beyond the Ring: The Best of Wagner [Box Set] 2007
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9; Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan & Isolde
Divas: The Ultimate Album 1998
First Bayreuth Recordings, Vol. 2 (1928): Tristan und Isolde
Isaac Stern (1945-46)
Oboe Alone (Hautbois seul) 2006
Richard Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde 1993
Richard Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde 1992
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
The Complete EMI Recordings 1946-1984, Vol. 2: Opera & Vocal 2008
Tristan und Isolde 1997
Wagner: The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival [Box Set] 2008
Wagner: The Opera Collection (Box Set)
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde 1996
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde 1999
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde
Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde [DVD Video] 2007
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (Beyreuth 1928) 1999
Wagner: Tristan et Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1995
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1994
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1998
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1999
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2000
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2001
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2001
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2001
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2001
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2002
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2003
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2003
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1995
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1993
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2002
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2004
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2001
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2004
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2005
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2005
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1993
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1992
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1997
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2006
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2006
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2001
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 2007
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1992
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Highlights)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (The Legendary Recording)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90; Wesendonk Lieder WWV91
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde [DVD Video] 2008
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde [Includes Bonus DVD] 2005

Albums with Excerpt Performances of the Work

Title Date
100 Best Classics, Vol. 2 2006
100 Best Opera Classics 2004
100 Chefs d'Oeuvre de la Musique Classique 2006
100 Greatest Singers of the Century
100 Jahre Bayreuth auf Schallplatte: The Early Festival Singers, 1887-1906 [Box Set] 2004
100 Relaxing Classic 1999
100 Relaxing Classics [Box Set] 2000
101 Opera Masterpieces, Vol. 1 [Box Set]
101 Opera Masterpieces, Vol. 2 [Box Set]
1944 - The Red Cross Concert
20 Gramophone All Time Greats-Vol.4 1996
20th Century Maestros: Arturo Toscanini & Bruno Walter 2000
20th Century Maestros: Victor de Sabata & Dmitri Mitropoulos 2000
300 Ans d'Opéra à Bruxelles
40 Most Beautiful Arias
40 Most Beautiful Love Themes 2007
50 Classical Performances: Symphonic 2002
50 Great Moments in Opera 1992
500 Classic Masterpieces [Box Set] 1992
6 Decades of Immortal Performances 2001
6-CD Set to Accompany "Listening to Music" (Second Edition) [Box Set] 1996
A Celebration in Music
A Different Prelude 2000
A Dysfunctional Family Christmas 1998
A Night at the Opera 2008
A Portrait 1995
A Portrait of Hanne-Lore Kuhse 2005
A Proper Introduction to Maria Callas, Diva 2004
A Reminiscence 2004
A Sonic Spectacular: Stokowski Conducts Wagner 1992
A Soprano Weekend
A Tebaldi Festival
A Treasury of Golden Classics
A Tribute to Eugen Jochum 1997
A Voice from Heaven 2002
A Wagner Collection 2005
A Wagner Weekend
Addio: Opera's Greatest Farewells 1999
Albert Coates
All Wagner
All-Time Great Opera Duets: 1911-1942 1995
American Singers, Volume 3
An Evening with Maria Callas 1999
Antonietta Rudge 2000
Arias
Arias and Duets from Operas by Wagner
Arias and Scenes 2000
Arie celebri
Artist Portrait: Matti Salminen 2003
Arturo Toscanini & NBC Symphony Orchestra Vol. 7 1999
Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 49: Richard Wagner 1992
Arturo Toscanini Collection, Volume 52: Richard Wagner 1991
Arturo Tostanini: The Farewell Concert at La Scala
Astrid Varnay Sings Wagner
Astrid Varnay: Recital No. 2
Audrey Stottler sings Wagner 2006
August Seider: Wagner Recital (Recordings 1937 - 50)
Ballads of Opera 2001
Barbirolli in New York 1994
Bayreuther Festspiel Highlights [Included with "Wagner in Bayreuth: A Documentary"]
Beecham, Flagstad & Wagner 2007
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Eroica" & 6 "Pastorale"; Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Wganer: Tristan und Isolde Prelude 1998
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3; Wagner: Siegfried's Rhine Journey 2008
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5; Wagner: Excerpts from Tristan; & Parsifal; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6; 1993
Ben Heppner: German Romantic Opera 1998
Berlin, 9 May 1952 2003
Bernstein Favorites: Opera For Orchestra 1991
Berühmte Ouvertüren und Zwischenspiele 1992
Best Opera Album In The World ... Ever! 1996
Best of Wagner
Birgit Nilsson
Birgit Nilsson Sings Richard Wagner & Richard Strauss 1999
Birgit Nilsson på Det Kongelige Teater
Birgit Nilsson, Vol.1 2000
Birgit Nilsson: Opera Arias 2000
Birgit Nilsson: Rarities 2006
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [DVD Video] 2007
Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Academic Festival Overture; Wagner; Tristan und Isolde - Prelude to Act 1; Siegfried Idyll 2008
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Broadway Classics
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde 2004
Bruno Walter Conducts Wagner
Bruno Walter Rarities, From Broadcasts Of The Forties
Bruno Walter With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1925-1927)
Bruno Walter conducts Wagner
Bruno Walter's Early Wagner Recordings 1995
Callas & De Hidalgo: The Pupil and Her Teacher 2001
Callas & Tebaldi: 2 Divas 2009
Callas 1951: One Year, One Voice 2002
Callas Legacy, Vol.1: Her First Recordings in Italy
Callas the Divine 1996
Callas-De Hidalgo: Callas's Teacher 2002
Callas: Birth of a Diva 2007
Callas: The Secret of a Voice 2001
Callas: The Voice and the Story 1997
Candelight Classics 2000
Cantanti Italiani Di Wagner Vol. 1
Carl Muck 2005
Carl Schuricht Collection [20 CDs/1 DVD] [Box Set] 2006
Carl Schuricht Conducts Wagner 1950
Carl Schuricht: Unissued Broadcast Recordings
Carlos Kleiber Conducts Wagner And Borodin
Carlos Kleiber in Rehearsal
Carlos Kleiber: A Portrait of the Early Years 1967-1973
Casta Diva: Great Arias by Bellini, Verdi and Wagner 2003
Centenary Edition: 100 Years of Great Music (Box Set) 1997
Centennial Collection 1990
Cerntenary Edition 1948-1957, Vol. 6 1997
Charlotte Margiono sings Richard Wagner [Hybrid SACD] 2006
Christa Ludwig sings Wagner, Brahms, Mahler & Beethoven 2006
Cinema Classics 6 1994
Cinema Classics: Klassische Melodien aus berühmten Filmen 1997
Classic CD No. 58
Classic Collection: Maria Callas
Classic Love 1996
Classic Symphonic Performances 2003
Classical Ecstasy-Classics for a New Age 1996
Classical Evolution: Great Soprano Collection 2002
Classical Heat 2002
Classical Masterpieces of the Millennium [Box Set] 1999
Classical Masterpieces of the Millennium: Wagner 1999
Classical Music Start-Up Kit, Vol. 2: 1825-1945 1993
Classical Treasures: Classical Sounds of Excellence [Box Set] 2005
Classics for Love 1994
Classics for Lovers 2003
Classics go Hollywood 1993
Classics of Love 1996
Close Encounters with Great Singers: Jon Vickers 2003
Coloratura 2002
Concert in Berlin
Concert in the Park 1991
Covent Garden 1904-1939 1991
Covent Garden On Record: A History, Volume I
Covent Garden On Record: A History, Volume IV
Dalí: Chill Out 2004
Dame Gwyneth Jones sings Wagner
Damsels in Distress - Woeful Soprano Arias 1993
Desire: Music of Romance (Box Set) 1999
Desire: Music of Romance, Discs 1 & 2 1999
Discover: Music of the Romantic Era 2005
Diva: 30 Great Prima Donnas 2000
Diva: Jessye Norman 1995
Dramatic Scenes & Arias 2003
EMI Centenary Edition, Vol. 6
Earl Wild 1999
Everlasting Love
Evgeny Mravinsky [Box Set]
Famous Basses of the Past
Famous Conductors of the Past: Clemens Krauss
Famous Opera Arias
Famous Overtures
Farewell Concert 2005
Favorite Opera Overtures And Choruses 1993
Favourite Love Classics
Felicity Lott Sings Mahler & Wagner 2007
Flagstad & Melchior: The Complete Wagner Duets
Flagstad & Melchior: The German Repertoire (1938-1941)
Flagstad And Melchior Sing Wagner
Flagstad sings Wagner
Florence Easton 1997
Florence Easton Sings Opera Arias 2001
Four Famous Contraltos of the Past
Four Famous Mezzos of the Past
Four Famous Wagerian Tenors
Four Famous Wagnerian Basses
Four German Basses of the Past 1998
Four German Contraltos of the Past
Four Scandinavian Tenors of the Past
Franck: Symphonie en Re mineur; Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll; Tristan und Isolde vorspiel
Franz Konwitschny Conducts 2000
Frida Leider 2001
Frida Leider Sings Wagner
Frida Leider in Wagner's Götterdämmerung
Frida Leider: A Vocal Portrait 2003
Furtwängler Conducting Wagner
Furtwängler Conducts Wagner
Furtwängler Dirigiert Richard Wagner (Box Set) 1992
Furtwängler Dirigiert Wagner, CD 4
Furtwängler Dirigiert Wagner, CD 5
Furtwängler: 1938 - 1942
Furtwängler: Best of the Early Studio Recordings (1929-43)
Furtwängler: Early Recordings 1926-37 1991
Furtwängler: Maestro Classico (Box Set) 2000
Furtwängler: Maestro Classico, Disc 2 2000
Gateway To Classical Music: The Romantic Era 1996
Gateway To Classical Music: Volume 1/Volume 2 1994
Germaine Lubin: Opera Arias & Songs
German Composers Conduct 2008
Gluck: Alceste 1993
Gods, Kings & Demons 2008
Gold Medal Dreams 2007
Golden Years of the Bayreuth Festival (1907-39)
Goodall Conducts Bruckner & Wagner 2002
Gottlob Frick Sings Arias and Scenes
Gottlob Frick, Vol. 2: Arien, Szenen und Lieder
Gramophone Collectors' Edition CD No. 2: The Real Elgar 2006
Gramophone Editor's Choice, April 2001 2001
Gramophone Editor's Choice, September 2005 2005
Grand Opera
Great Austrian Conductors
Great Classical Overtures 1994
Great Conductors of the 20th Century, Vol. 36: Herbert von Karajan
Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Artur Rodzinski 2003
Great German Conductors
Great Italian Conductors, Vol. 2: Antonio Guarnieri
Great Love Duets
Great Melodies of the Classics (Box Set) 1997
Great Music Classics (Box Set) 2002
Great Music Classics (Collectors Edition) (Box Set) 2002
Great Opera Divas: Jessye Norman 1998
Great Opera Duets 2007
Great Overtures 2001
Great Overtures by Verdi, Rossini & Wagner (Box Set)
Great Pianists of the 20th Century: The Complete Edition (Box 2) (Box Set) 1999
Great Romantic Classics 2001
Great Russian Conductors: The Art of Nikolai Golovanov (Volume IX)
Great Singers At The Berlin State Opera 1993
Great Singers At The Gran Teatro Del Liceo 1995
Great Singers At The Opera Houses Of Europe 1994
Great Singers Of The Bayreuth Festival
Great Singers Of The Bayreuth Festival 1907-1943
Great Stars of Opera [DVD Video] 2000
Great Voices: Jaro Prohaska
Great Voices: Kirsten Flagstad
Great Voices: Max Lorenz
Great Works Of Richard Wagner 1994
Greatest Hits-Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Schubert 1995
Greatest Masterpieces of the Millennium (Box Set) 2000
Greatest Masterpieces of the Millennium: Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Handel 1999
Grieg: Orchestral Songs: Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder 2006
Gustav Mahler Musikwochen 2004
Gwyneth Jones: Scenes From Richard Wagner 1991
Göta Ljungberg
Hans Knappertsbusch conducts Beethoven & Wagner
Harold Wayne Collection Vol.5
Harold Wayne Collection, Vol. 9
Harold Wayne Collection, Vol.35
Helden an geweihtem Ort
Heldentenöre
Helen Traubel And Lauritz Melchior Sing Wagner 1999
Helen Traubel in Concert 1947-1951 1996
Her First Recordings in Italy (1952-1953)
Herbert Von Karajan Conducts Opera 1988
Herbert von Karajan Edition
Herbert von Karajan: The Great Recordings [Box Set] 2008
Historic Organs of Connecticut 1997
History of Classical Music 1999
I Grandi Direttori Alla RAI
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Il "Carlo Felice" di Genova: Un secolo di grandi voci, Vol. 7
Il segreto di una voce (Box Set) 2002
In Classical Mood: Passion 1998
In Concert with the University of Illinois Symphonic Band: The Begian Years, Vol. 3
Incontri memorabili: Getrud Grob-Prandl and Ferruccio Tagliavini
Isaac Stern
It Ain't Over 'Til She Sings 1990
Ivar Andrésen sings Wagner
Jascha Horenstein conducts Strauss, Wagner, Mahler, Schönberg
Jessye Norman Collection
Jessye Norman Sings Wagner 1989
Jessye Norman sings Wagner 2000
Jewgenij Mrawinskij Conducts leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
John McCormack Rare Recordings 1904-42 1998
Jon Vickers: A Tribute on His 75th Birthday 2001
Jura Margulis plays Piano Transcriptions 2006
Karajan Conducts Opera
Karl Muck Conducts Wagner
Karl Muck The Electrical Wagner Recordings for Orchestra 1995
Karl Muck conducts Richard Wagner 1993
Karl Muck: The HMV/Electrola Wagner Orchestral Recordings, 1927-29 1996
Kirsten Flagstad 1993
Kirsten Flagstad & Lauritz Melchior: The Legendary American Repertoire
Kirsten Flagstad Farewell Concert (New York, March 20, 1955)
Kirsten Flagstad as Alceste
Kirsten Flagstad in Concert
Kirsten Flagstad in Strauss Concert 1950
Kirsten Flagstad, Vol. 3: Live Performances 1948-57 1995
Kirsten Flagstad: Arias; Duets with Melchior
Kirsten Flagstad: Farewell to New York
Kirsten Flagstad: Great Voices
Kirsten Flagstad: Live in Concert (1949-1957) 2006
Kirsten Flagstad: The Great Arias
Kirsten Flagstad: The Voice of the Century 1999
Kleiber Conducts Wagner & Borodin
Knappertsbusch Conducts Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner
Knappertsbusch: Maestro Energico (Box Set) 2003
Knappertsbusch: Maestro Energico, Disc 4 2003
Kristein Flagstad: Volume 1, The Early Recordings 1914-1942 1995
Kurt Sanderling [Box Set] 2002
L'Art de Hans Knappertbusch
L'escola Pianística Catalana 2004
La Nilsson: Birgit Nilsson sings Wagner 1996
La Prima Callas
La Stupenda: The Supreme Voice of Joan Sutherland 2001
Lauritz Melchior Anthology, Vol. 3 1987
Lauritz Melchior: Great Voices
Lauritz Melchior: The Wagner Roles [Box Set] 1999
Lauritz Melchior: The Wagner Roles, 1929-1940, CD 1 1999
Le Chant français, 1948-1965 [Box Set] 2003
Le Prime Registrazioni Ufficiali (First Official Recordings) 2000
Le Récital Inaugural 2005
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Alexander Kipnis 3
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Anny Konetzni
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Astrid Varnay
Lebendige Vergangenheit: August Seider
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Blanche Thebom
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Cloe Elmo
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Elisabeth Ohms
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Emmi Leisner
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Frida Leider
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Frida Leider II
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Germaine Lubin
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Göta Ljungberg
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Helen Traubel
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Helen Traubel II 2003
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Helene Wildbrunn 1994
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Herbert Janssen
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Ivar Andrésen II
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Johanna Blatter
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Josef von Manowarda, Vol. 2
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Kerstin Thorborg
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Kim Borg
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Kirsten Flagstad
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Kirsten Flagstad III
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Lauritz Melchior, Vol. 3
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Lilly Hafgren
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Lotte Lehmann
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Luise Willer
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Margarete Arndt-Ober
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Maria Jeritza 1993
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Marta Fuchs
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Max Lorenz 1994
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Modest Menzinsky
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Paul Knüpfer
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Rose Bampton
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Rosette Anday
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Rudolf Bockelmann
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Set Svanholm
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Sigrid Onégin, Vol. 3
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Torsten Ralf II
Legendary Performers: Paderewski 1992
Legendary Voices of the Salzburg Festival
Legendary Voices, Vol. 1 1993
Legendary Wagner Singers of the 1930s 2001
Legends of Opera in Live Performance
Leontyne Price (The Prima Donna Collection) 1992
Leontyne Price: Prima Donna Collection (Highlights) 1995
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski Conducts Blacher, Prokofiev, Milhaud and Others
Leopold Stokowski Conducts Wagner [Box Set] 2003
Les Introuvables Du Chant Wagnérien
Les Introuvables du Chant Français [Box Set] 2004
Les Introuvables: Christa Ludwig
Les Plus Beaux Operas du Monde 2000
Les Tenors du XXe Siecle 2004
Lilli Lehmann 1997
Lillian Nordica & Olive Fremstad 2001
Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven, etc. 1997
Live Recordings 1944-1953 [Box Set] 2002
Live in Concert 1997
Live in Milan 1956 and Athens 1957 2002
London Horn Sound 1999
Lorin Maazel Conducts Wagner 1998
Lotte Lehmann Sings Lieder & Orchestral Songs, 1941-1950 2005
Lotte Lehmann in Concert 2001
Lotte Lehmann sings Wagner/Richard Strauss
Love -- Meeting Angels Through Sound & Music 1997
Lovers -- The Greatest Hits 1995
Lovers' Adagios 2006
Lovro von Matacic Conducts Wagner 2007
Ludwig Weber 1936 - 1948
Ludwig Weber:Opera Arias 1999
Mad About Love 1995
Mad About Opera 1992
Mad About Wagner 1994
Maestro Celebre: Leopold Stokowski [Box Set]
Maestro Celebre: Leopold Stokowski, CD 3
Magnificient Flagstad
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Mahler: Symphonie No. 9; Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Vorspeil Akt 1)
March 1999 Sampler 1999
Maria Callas 2003
Maria Callas Live [Box Set] 2005
Maria Callas, The Complete Studio Recordings 1949-1969 [Box Set] 2007
Maria Callas: A Voice - Two Moments
Maria Callas: Her First Recordings in Italy (1952/53)
Maria Callas: La Diva 2005
Maria Callas: La Divina
Martha Mödl
Masters of Classical Music (Box Set) 2001
Masters of Classical Music, Vol. 5: Wagner
Masters of Classical Music, Vols. 1-5 (Box Set)
Masters of the Opera, 1642-1926 (Box Set)
Masters of the Opera, Vol. 7: 1851-65
Max Lorenz Opera Arias of Wagner
Max Lorenz Sings Wagner
Max Lorenz sings Richard Wagner
Max Lorenz singt Wagner
Max Von Schillings: The Wagner Recordings
Max von Schillings dirigiert Wagner, 2. Folge (Berlin 1927-29)
Melchior 1990
Mes premières années 2003
Midnight in the Grand Court 2005
Montserrat Caballé sings Wagner 1983
Muses to Murder 2008
My First Record 2001
Nick Kimberley: Discover Opera 2006
Nippers Newest 1998
Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Vol. 2 [Box Set] 1996
Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Vol. 2: Classic to Romantic
Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Vol. 2: Classic to Twentieth Century [Box Set] 2006
Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music: Concise Version 2010
Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music: Concise Version [Box Set] 2006
Obsessions (Wagner & Strauss: Arias and Scenes) 2004
Opera Arias 1997
Opera Arias 1973-1981
Opera Arias And Duets 1996
Opera Collection I 1992
Opera For a Rainy Day 2000
Opera Gala: Birgit Nilsson 1989
Opera Highlights: The Collector's Edition [Box Set] 2007
Opera Obsession! Act IV 2007
Opera Scenes and Orchestral Songs
Opera at La Scala 1993
Opera for Pleasure: Introduction to Opera 1997
Opera's Greatest Heroines 2002
Opera's Greatest Love Songs 1993
Opera-Passion 1 1987
Opera: The Greatest Moments Ever 2006
OperaLove: Opera for Hopeless Romantics 2004
Operamania (Box Set) 1994
Operamania, Vol. 4 1994
Or sai chi l'onore: Opernarien von Mozart, Weber, Wagner, Strauss
Orchestral Excerpts for English Horn 2001
Otto Wolf Tenor Wagner Aufnahmen 1922-25 1999
Overtures
Panorama: Richard Wagner, Vol. 1 2000
Passion (Box Set) 2003
Passion, Vol. 9: Wagner - Overtures and Preludes 2003
Piano Transcriptions 1991
Pierre Monteux
Ponto 50 2006
Preludes and Overtures
Prima Voce: Divas, Vol. 2: 1909-1940 1991
Prima Voce: Flagstad 1993
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Pure Opera Moods 2004
RCA MET 100 Singers, 100 Years 1984
Recital
Recital: Montserrat Caballé 1995
Recordings From 1939 to 1946
Rhapsodies 1993
Rhapsodies [Hybrid SACD] 2005
Richard Morris: The Grand Tradition 2007
Richard Strauss Conducts 1999
Richard Strauss Conducts...the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 1991
Richard Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder; Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder
Richard Wagner on Record
Richard Wagner: 15 Great Arias 1995
Richard Wagner: Highlights from The Ring 1994
Richard Wagner: Orchestra Music 1994
Richard Wagner: Orchestral Music from Operas 1995
Richard Wagner: Overtures 1996
Richard Wagner: Overtures And Preludes 1995
Ritorna vincitor! 2003
Ritratto di Carlo Sabajno Volume 1: Il periodo acustico (1905 - 1920)
Ritratto di Carlo Sabajno, Vol. I - Le incisioni acustiche [1905-1920] (A Portrait of Carlo Sabajno, Vol. I - The Aco
Romantic Adagio: Karajan
Romantic Classics 2005
Romantic Moments (Box Set) 2000
Romantic Music For Dummies
Romantic Wagner 1995
Romeo & Juliet Music for The World's Greatest Lovers 1994
Rondo Violoncello
Rose Bampton Sings Verdi And Wagner 1995
Roussel: Padmâvatî 2001
Rudolf Kempe conducts Weber, Wagner, Beethoven 2007
Scenes from Tristan und Isolde 2005
Schillings Conducts Wagner
Schubert, Auber, Mendelssohn and others... 1997
Schuricht Conducts Wagner: The 1954 London Records 2006
Scorpio: Music Of The Zodiac 1996
Seasons Of Love 1998
Sergiu Celibidache Conducts
Sie sangen im Prinzregententheater: Eine Dokumentation zum 100 Jahr-Jubiläum
Siegfried Wagner Conducts Richard Wagner 2006
Simply Callas [Box Set] 2007
Simply the Best Classical Passion: Music for Classic Lovers 2003
Singers to Remember: Meta Seinemeyer 2006
Six Overtures and Preludes
Smetana, Mozart, Wagner 1992
Songs Of The Earth 1994
Sopranos 2000
Sopranos: Opera Arias and Songs
Sounds of Excellence: 200 Greatest Classics, Vol. 4 2000
Souvenirs 1991
Stockholm Philharmonic 75th Anniversary 1988
Stokowski Conducts Wagner
Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra Play Wagner Vol. II
Stokowski's Stereo Collection (Remastered) 1997
Stokowski's Wagner 1999
Stokowski: Wagner Symphonic Syntheses 2007
Story Of Wagner In Words And Music 1993
Strauss conducts Der Rosenkavalier 2008
Strauss: Don Quixote; Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1999
Strauss: Elektra 1998
Strauss: Four Last Songs; Death and Transfiguration; Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan & Isolde [Hybrid SACD 2006
Strauss: Four Last Songs; Death and Transfiguration; Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde 2006
Strauss: Four Last Songs; Wagner" Excerpts from Tristan und Isolde & Götterdämmerung 2007
Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica,Op.53/Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde/Lohengrin 1996
Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux [Box Set]
Surround Yourself in Classics, Vol.1 [Box Set] 1999
Sydney Opera House Opening Concert 1973 [Includes Bonus DVD] 2008
Tagliavini, Grob-Prandl, Simionato: Concerti Martini & Rossi
Tchaikovsky & Wagner 1996
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina Prelude Act IV; Wagner Tristan und Isolde Prelude & Liebestod; 2007
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique", Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Prelude & Liebestod) 2003
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6/Wagner: Vorspiel Und Liebestod
Telarc Surround Sounds 1996
The #1 Opera Album II 2007
The #1 Soprano Album 2002
The 1957 Athens Concert
The 20th Century Maestros (Box Set)
The Acoustic Records (1910-1918)
The Adagio Box (Box Set)
The Art of Bernard Haitink [Box Set] 2009
The Art of Christa Ludwig [Box Set] 2008
The Art of Emmi Leisner
The Art of Felix Weingartner
The Art of Frida Leider
The Art of Joan Sutherland [Box Set]
The Art of Meta Seinemeyer 1996
The Art of Paderewski, Vol.II
The Basic Wagner
The Best Of Alexander Kipnis
The Best Of Wagner 1991
The Best Opera Album in the World...Ever 1996
The Best of Wagner 1997
The Best of the Popular Piano Concertos 2004
The Birth of an Opera: Tristan und Isolde
The Classic 100 Opera: The Top 10 & Selected Highlights 2008
The Classic 100 [Box Set] 2008
The Classic 100, Vol. 1 2008
The Classic 100: The Ultimate Top 10 Collection [Box Set] 2008
The Complete Destinn (Box Set)
The Complete Destinn: Arias and Songs, 1910-1921 [Box Set]
The Complete EMI Recordings 1946-1984, Vol. 1: Orchestral [Box Set] 2008
The Complete Johanna Gadski, Vol. 1 1997
The Complete Johanna Gadski, Vol. 2 1999
The Divine Primadonna 2008
The Essential Jessye Norman 2005
The Essential Jessye Norman [Includes DVD: Jessye Norman Sings Carmen] 2004
The Essential Montserrat Caballé 2008
The Essential Vladimir Horowitz 2009
The Favourites 2007
The First Records of the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, Vol. 3: Tannhäuser
The Great Romantics 1995
The Great Singers 2003
The Great Sopranos of the Fifties and the Sixties: The Italian Tradition
The Harold Wayne Collection, Vol. 32 1998
The Heart Of Opera 1997
The Kiss: Music for Love and Passion 1994
The Legendary Singers at Lindenoper, Berlin
The Live Recitals [Box Set] 2006
The Martini & Rossi Concerts: Gertrud Grob-Prandl, Ferruccio Tagliavini
The Mengelberg Edition, Vol. 10
The Met Centenarians: Lauritz Melchior 1990
The Most Beautiful Soprano Arias (Box Set)
The Most Beautiful Soprano Arias, Vol. 1
The Most Famous Opera Duets 1994
The Most Famous Overtures
The Only Opera CD You'll Ever Need ! 1997
The Peoples Guide to Opera 1 [Box Set] 1999
The Power of Wagner 2004
The Premium Collection: 75 Classical Masterworks [Box Set]
The Prima Voce Treasury of Opera, Vol. 2 2000
The RAI Recitals 1949-1956
The Record of Singing, Vol. 5 2009
The Sopranos 2003
The Tenor of Warsaw Opera House
The Three Sopranos 2007
The Unknown Recordings (1957-1969)
The Very Best of Adagio
The Very Best of Christa Ludwig 2003
The Very Best of Hildegard Behrens 2005
The Very Best of Jessye Norman 2003
The Very Best of Jon Vickers 2005
The Very Best of Kirsten Flagstad 2005
The Very Best of Placido Domingo 2003
The Vienna Debut, 1953
The Wagner Collection 1997
The Wonders Of Opera, Vol. 1-4 1996
The World Of Singing, Vol. 8: The Italian School, Part II
The World of Singing, Vol.7
The World's Greatest Composers (Box Set) 1993
The Yellow Guide: Opera 1997
Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] 1994
This Is Gold: Maria Callas [Box Set] 2005
This Is Gold: Maria Callas, Vol. 3 2005
Tomita Live In New York 1988
Toscanini, Vol. 6
Toscanini: Gli Anni Della Maturita
Toscanini: Maestro Furioso (Box Set)
Toscanini: Maestro Furioso, Disc 2
Tragic Lovers 2008
Trahisons (Betrayals)
Transcendent Love: The Passions of Wagner and Strauss 2008
Transcriptions for Organ
Tribute to a Unique Artist
Trilogy: Classical Works of the Great Masters
Tristan und Isolde Highlights 1994
Twilight of the Gods: The Essential Wagner Collection 1998
Ultimate Opera [Box Set] 2007
Ultimate Wagner: The Essential Masterpieces [Box Set] 2008
Unforgettable Classics: Love 1998
Unforgettable Classics: Romance 1997
Unvergessene Stimmen der Wiener Staatsoper 1994
Van Gogh Face to Face: A Musical Palette 2000
Verdi, Wagner and Rossini
Verdi, Wagner, Saint-Saens and others
Verdi: Aida; Wagner: Parsifal WWV111 1994
Verdi: La Traviata
Victor De Sabata
Victor de Sabata
Vienna - The Mahler Years, 1897-1907 2004
Virgil Fox Plays the John Wanamaker Organ--Philadelphia
Virgil Fox Plays the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ [DVD & CD] 2004
Virgil Fox: Soli Deo Gloria 1990
Virtuoso Piano Transcriptions 2001
Visconti's "Ludwig" [Original Soundrack Recording] 2006
Viva Diva [Box Set]
Viva Diva, Vol. 4
Voices from Lindenoper on Radio
Vom Hamburger Stadttheater zur Hamburgischen Staatsoper 2003
Von der Königlichen Hofoper zur Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Wagner
Wagner & Strauss 1996
Wagner 3: Siegfried; Lohengrin; Tristan und Isolde; Die Walküre; Faust 1993
Wagner Collection 1992
Wagner Conductors on Record
Wagner Conducts Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde/Das Rheingold/Die Walküre, Etc.
Wagner For Dummies
Wagner Gala 2000
Wagner Greatest Hits 1990
Wagner Heroines
Wagner Highlights 1998
Wagner Highlights, Volume 2: Parsifal/Tristan Und Isolde/Siegfried 1988
Wagner In Bayreuth 1992
Wagner e Venezia 1997
Wagner for Orchestra 1994
Wagner from Seattle [Box Set] 1995
Wagner without Words 1990
Wagner's Greatest Hits 1996
Wagner's Heldentenor 2002
Wagner, Beethoven and Mussorgsky
Wagner, Berlioz, Beethoven and others
Wagner, Brahms and Berlioz
Wagner, Liszt, Brahms and others
Wagner, Schumann: Arias, Duets with Flagstad & Lehmann 1990
Wagner, Verdi, Sousa and others
Wagner: Arias & Incidental Music 1992
Wagner: Arias & Scenes 2006
Wagner: Arias and Duets 1990
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tannhäuser; Tristan und Isolde 1992
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: Die Meistersinger Prelude; Lohengrin Prelude Act1 & Act 3 1995
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Wagner: Die meistersinger Von Nürnberg/Der Fliegende Holländer/Götterdämmerung/Lohengrin/Tristan Und Isolde
Wagner: Estratti Operistici 2001
Wagner: Excerpts from Parsifal, Der Fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg & Tristan un Isolde 2007
Wagner: Excerpts from Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Wesendonck-Lieder
Wagner: Extracts from the Operas 2004
Wagner: Favourite Overtures 1998
Wagner: Great Orchestral Music 1989
Wagner: Greatest Hits 1994
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Götterdämmerung WWV86d; Meistersinger von Nürnberg WWV96
Wagner: Götterdämmerung WWV86d; Tristan und Isolde WWV90 1998
Wagner: Götterdämmerung; Tristan und Isolde; Die Walküre; Tannhäuser; Lohengrin (Excerpts) 1992
Wagner: Highlights 1998
Wagner: Karajan
Wagner: Lohengrin
Wagner: Lohengrin WWV75; Brahms: Symphony in Cm No1, Op68
Wagner: Lohengrin WWV75; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No5, Op64 1994
Wagner: Lohengrin WWV75; Tristan und Isolde WWV90
Wagner: Love Duets 2000
Wagner: Meistersinger von Nürnberg WWV96; Tristan und Isolde WWV90
Wagner: Opera Arias 1989
Wagner: Opera Arias and Duets 2008
Wagner: Opera Excerpts 2005
Wagner: Opera Highlights 1999
Wagner: Opera Preludes; Siegfried Idyll
Wagner: Opera Scenes 1997
Wagner: Operatic Arias & Scenes
Wagner: Operatic Extracts 1993
Wagner: Orchestral Excerpts [SACD] 1999
Wagner: Orchestral Favourites 1994
Wagner: Orchestral Highlights 1991
Wagner: Orchestral Music
Wagner: Orchestral Music From Der Fliegende Hollander, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger, Tannhäuser & Tristan und Isolde 2004
Wagner: Orchestral Music from Der Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, etc. 2005
Wagner: Orchestral Music from Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tannhäuser, Tristan 2004
Wagner: Orchestral Music from Parsifal, The Ring, Tristan
Wagner: Orchestral Music from operas 1995
Wagner: Orchestral Music from the Operas 2002
Wagner: Orchestral Scenes 1998
Wagner: Orchestral Works 2003
Wagner: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 1998
Wagner: Orchestral excerpts
Wagner: Ouvertures & Préludes 2002
Wagner: Ouvertüren & Vorspiele
Wagner: Overture & Preludes 1993
Wagner: Overture and Orchestral Music 1999
Wagner: Overtures 1984
Wagner: Overtures & Orchestral Music 1992
Wagner: Overtures & Preludes 1992
Wagner: Overtures & Preludes [DVD Audio] 2001
Wagner: Overtures & Preludes [Hybrid SACD] 2003
Wagner: Overtures to Die Meistersinger; Lohengrin; Tannh user 1993
Wagner: Overtures, Preludes & Arias 2003
Wagner: Overtures, Preludes & Great Scenes 2000
Wagner: Overtures; Orchestral Music 1997
Wagner: Parsifal/Der Ring Des Nibelungen/Tristan Und Isolde 1991
Wagner: Parsifal; Tristan und Isolde; Götterdämmerung
Wagner: Preludes 2000
Wagner: Preludes & Overtures 1994
Wagner: Preludes & Overtures [Hybrid SACD] 2004
Wagner: Preludes and Overtures
Wagner: Preludes and Overtures; Orchestral Works 2002
Wagner: Preludes; Overtures; Liebestod
Wagner: Rienzi (Excerpts)
Wagner: Rienzi/Tannhäuser/Die Meistersinger/Tristan Und Isolde
Wagner: Ring [Scenes] 1999
Wagner: Scenes and Arias from The Ring & Tristan und Isolde 2007
Wagner: Scenes from Tristan und Isolde and Götterdammerung 2004
Wagner: Selections from Tristan und Isolde, Tannhäuser & Götterdämmerung; Wesendonck-Lieder
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll in E WWV103; Lohengrin WWV75
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll in E WWV103; Tristan und Isolde WWV90 1995
Wagner: Siegfried/Tristan Und Isolde/Parsifal & Wesendonck Lieder
Wagner: Symphonic Spectaculars 2000
Wagner: Symphonic Spectaculars (Box Set) 2000
Wagner: Tannhäuser WWV70; Walküre WWV86b 1995
Wagner: Tannhäuser/Die Walküre/Der Fliegende Holländer/Götterdämmerung/Lohengrin/Parsifal/Tristan Und Isolde/Götterdä 1997
Wagner: Tannhäuser/Lohengrin/Tristan Und Isolde/Parsifal
Wagner: Tannhäuser/Siegfried-Idyll/Tristan und Isolde 1988
Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Tristan und Isolde; Götterdämmerung 1991
Wagner: The Complete Overtures & Orchestral Music from the opera
Wagner: The Opera Collection (Box Set)
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries; Overtures and Choruses 1998
Wagner: The Twilight Of Gods; Lohengrin; Tristan And Isolde 2001
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde (Excerpts) 1998
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde excerpts 1997
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 1993
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Abridged)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Highlights) [Hybrid SACD]
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - The Duet Scenes [Hybrid SACD] 2008
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Act 2
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90; Brahms: Symphony in Cm No1, Op68 1998
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90; Götterdämmerung WWV86d 1996
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90; Mahler: Symphony No10 1991
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90; Schumann: Cello Concerto in Am Op129 1999
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90; Siegfried Idyll in E WWV103 1997
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90; Walküre WWV86b 1995
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde WWV90; Wesendonk Lieder WWV91
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde [Fragment Version]
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude & Liebestod; Tchaikovsky: Symphony 'Pathétique' 2006
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde-An Orchestral Passion 1997
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde/Liebesnacht/Struass: Der Rosenkavalier
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde/Parsifal/Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg/Lohengrin/Tannhäuser
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Wagner: Tristan/Tannhäuser/Meistersinger 1990
Wagner: Une soirée musical chez Albert Baron de l'Espée - Transcriptions for Organ 2007
Wagner: Vorspiel und Liebestod; Mahler: Sinfonie Nr. 10 1990
Wagner: Walkure Act 1
Wagner: Walküre WWV86b; Lohengrin WWV75
Wagner: Walküre WWV86b; Tristan und Isolde WWV90
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder; Arias 2004
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder; Isoldes Liebestod; Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; Etc. 2006
Wagner: Wesendonk-Lieder; Vorspiel & Liebestod aus :Tristan und Isolde"
Waldoper Zoppot: Das Bayreuthe des Norden und seine Sänger
Walter Collection, Vol.7
Walter Conducts Bruckner & Wagner
Wartime Archives of the RRG (Box Set)
Wartime Archives of the RRG, Vol. 2 1998
Weber; Brahms; Strauss: for orchestra & in orchestra arrangements 1996
Weekend Classics: Wagner
Wien 1900: The Death of Tonality? 2005
Wiener Philharmoniker 150th Anniversary (Box Set) 1991
Wiener Philharmoniker 150th Anniversary, Vol. 3 1991
Wilhelm Furtwängler (Edizione Cronologica delle Reg...dal 1926 al 1945) , Vol. 1
Wilhelm Furtwängler Conducts Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Furtwängler Conducts Wagner
Wilhelm Furtwängler Conducts Weber, Brahms, Wagner 1954
Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Wagner
Wolfgang Windgassen singt Wagner
Wolfgang Windgassen: Public Performances 1953, 1954, 1966
Yevgeny Mravinsky Vols. 1-10 1995
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