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Probably the definitive Tristan,

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Wilhelm Furtwängler's remains the Ur-Tristan set, the one by which all others are still measured - and rightly so. To this day no more succinct summing-up of its virtues has been written than that in the old Record Guide (Collins: 1955) contemporaneous with its first appearance: the authors wrote that, under Furtwängler, the work "overwhelms the attentive listener anew with its tragic intensity, its musical logic, its pathos and its sheer sensuous beauty". Listening to it yet again for this survey, I can only underline that description, even if the digital remastering for CD has lost some of the warmth of the original. Inspired by their conductor, the Philharmonia, in their heyday, play the score as if their life depended on it. The results, both in detail and as a whole, are tremendous, seconding FurtwSngler's very free yet always flowing interpretation. As extracts from various stage performances issued since have shown, Furtwängler could be even more volatile and visceral in the theatre, but under Walter's Legge's watchful ear and eye, much of the operahouse excitement is caught in the studio.

 

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