Wagner Tristan und Isolde Furtwangler Angel 5 LP 3588 Mint Vinyl

The vinyl is mint. The 31-page libretto and sleeves are also mint.  The box is in very good condition, with just a few small spots of wear on the cover.

Label: Angel Records‎– 3588 E/L

Format: 5 × Vinyl, LP, Mono Box Set

Recorded in 1952, released in 1959

Manufactured in U.S.A / Sung in German

Composed By – Richard Wagner Conductor – Wilhelm Furtwangler Orchestra – The Philharmonia Orchestra Chorus – Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Soprano Vocals [Isolda] – Kirsten Flagstad Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Brangaena] – Blanche Thebom Tenor Vocals [Tristan] – Ludwig Suthaus Tenor Vocals [A Shephard / A Sailor] – Rudolf Schuck Tenor Vocals [Melot] – Edgar Evans Bass Vocals [King Mark] – Josef Greindl

Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg.  On the homeward journey Tristan and Isolde, by misadventure, drink the love potion prepared by the queen for her daughter and King Mark. Henceforward, the two are bound to each other by an imperishable love that dares all dangers and makes light of hardships but does not destroy their loyalty to the king.

REVIEW: “I won’t take valuable Fanfare space by repeating what I said there, other than to note again the greatness of Furtwängler’s conducting here. Every single phrase is connected to what precedes it and what follows it. Although the phrasing is supple, and there are many subtle variations of tempo, everything is perfectly prepared. The music breathes, breathes in a way that is so natural that we are ultimately unaware of the act of performance, and aware only of Wagner’s great achievement. Every aspect of the conductor’s craft and art is present and is applied to this whole—color, balance, tempo, texture, chord-voicing, shaping, articulation—all of this and more are sewn together to make this miracle of a performance. Add Kirstin Flagstad’s exalted Isolde, Ludwig Suthaus’s richly sung (and often underrated) Tristan, and fine performances by Blanche Thebom, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Josef Greindl, and you have a recording that merits the almost universal praise it has garnered.”