Tristan und Isolde discography

Principal Selections

1953, Munich, public performance

Acts Two and Three

August Seider, Tristan
Gottlob Frick, King Marke
Helena Braun, Isolde
Hans Hotter, Kurwenal
Albrecht Peter, Melot
Ira Malaniuk, Brangäne
Paul Kuen, Shepherd
Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra,
conducted by Rudolf Kempe

Recorded from a performance at the Prinzregententheater München,
8 November 1953

CD: Archipel ARPCD 0256-2 (2 CDs) (2004)

An excerpt from this recording appeared earlier as follows:

Act 3, Scene 1: from "Die alte Weise..." to "Kurwenal, siehst du es nicht?" (19' 03"), and from "Das Schiff - siehst du's noch nicht?..." to "...wie schön bist du!" (4' 52")
LP: Melodram MEL 668 (2 LPs) (1986) (the date is given as "1954", but Josef Metternich, not Hans Hotter, sang Kurwenal at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 1954)

Note: There are cuts in the recording: in Act 2, King Mark's words "Tatest du's wirklich?..." to "mit feindlichstem Verrat" and his last two words "[wer macht der Welt] ihn kund?" are omitted; and in Act 3, Brangäne's lines "Sie wacht! Sie lebt!" to "dir zu zuführenden Freund" and King Mark's following lines "Warum, Isolde, warum mir das?" to "Der Wahn haufte die Not!" are also missing.