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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
ISBN: 0-313-31489-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31489-6
292 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/2000
List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £77.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • ARSC, Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research: Best Research in Recorded Classical Music, 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
About the Author: JONATHAN BROWN is freelance writer and the author of Parsifal on Record: A Discography of Complete Recordings, Selections, and Excerpts of Wagner's Music Drama (Greenwood, 1992)./e
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