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Tristan und Isolde on Record A Comprehensive Discography of Wagner's Music Drama with a Critical Introduction to the Recordings
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Jonathan Brown
Book Code: GR1489
ISBN: 0-313-31489-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31489-6
292 pages, photos, musical examples
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/2000
List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Discographies
Series Number: 85
Awards:
  • ARSC, Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research: Best Research in Recorded Classical Music, 2001
Reviews:
  • ...Brown provides a superb evaluation of Wagnerian singing and interpretation in the twentieth century. Recommended.
    —The Opera Journal     March 2002
  • This is a comprehensive discography with lots of detail and a critical introduction to the recordings.... If Tristan is a special interest for you, you'll want it.
    —American Record Guide     September/October 2000
  • ...an elegant piece of impressive scholarship, meticulously researched and no well off Wagner enthusiast should miss it,
    —Wagner News     December 2000
  • This is an invaluable edition to Greenwood Press's growing list of discographies....Altogether a must for Wagner collectors.
    —Gramaphone     January 2001
  • Brown's comments reveal thorough and careful listening to the recordings in question: his views are typically well founded and often insightful....collectors of Wagner recordings, both individuals and music libraries, will find this volume invaluable.
    —Notes     September 2001
  • This excellent book, which follows the same author's exemplary Parsifal on Record of 1992, provides all the discographical information on Wagner's masterpiece that anyone except an insanely competitive fellow discographer could possibly want, and arranged in the most lucid way....Brown displays his taste, passion and depth of concern with the work, in prose which is invariably fresh, often witty, and shows an enviable gift for the telling, evocative phrase....The author deserves our warmest gratitude.
    —International Record Review     November 2001
  • Discographic information is admirably complete....This work will appeal to Tristan lovers.
    —Fanfare     November/December 2001
Description: This critical discography of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde opens with an introduction that illustrates the challenges the opera poses to performers. The discography lists all complete recordings, all major selections, and hundreds of individually recorded vocal and instrumental excerpts from 1901 to 1999. Information was researched in major public collections and libraries in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Pirate recordings and fictitious conductors are identified, and an extensive list of arrangements from the opera, ranging from piano to jazz ensemble, and a list of performances on video are included. This unique discography will appeal to Wagnerian scholars, opera fans, and record collectors. Of special interest is a listing of the timings of complete performances, including some early Bayreuth performances not on disc and more than 200 recordings of the Prelude and arrangements of the Liebestod.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Discography
  • Complete Performances
  • Principal Selections
  • Act One Excerpts
  • Act Two Excerpts
  • Act Three Excerpts
  • Orchestral Arrangements
  • Other Arrangements
  • Tristan und Isolde on Video
  • Timings
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-026440
LCC Class: ML156
Dewey Class: 016
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