Tristan und Isolde (CD): Thielemann, Deborah Voigt, Thomas Moser, Robert Holl, Peter Weber, Markus Nieminen, Petra Lang
Conductor: Christian
Thielemann
Tristan: Thomas Moser
King Marke: Robert Holl
Isolde: Deborah Voigt
Kurwenal: Peter Weber
Melot: Markus Nieminen
Brangäne: Petra Lang
A Shepherd: Michael Roider
A Steersman: In-Sung Sim
A Young Sailor: John Dickie
Sailors, knights and esquires
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Chorus Master: Ernst Dunshirn
Issued by the Wiener Staatsoper
Live Recording by Austrian Radio (ORF)
Recording: Vienna, Staatsoper, 25 May 2003
Recording Producer: Wolfgang Sturm (ORF)
Post-production: Arend Prohmann (DG)
Balance Engineer: Josef Schütz (ORF)
Editing: Mark Buecker
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Reviews
...against Furtwängler's grand, elemental view of the score Thielemann is more immediate, more personal. Every moment of the drama in Thielemann's
hands is very present, with orchestral detail seldom if ever so clearly
delineated. Nothing escapes this conductor's eager eye and impulsive baton.
His approach is undoubtedly helped by the warm, immaculate contribution
of the VPO, even more perhaps by the clear and spacious recording which
just about matches that on the most recent, studio-made version, under
the Furtwängler-like Barenboim . . . there is much that is viscerally
exciting in this fastish and rather special "Tristan", and Thielemann
makes every bar and scene vibrate with inner life.
Alan
Blyth, Gramophone 1 August 2004