Tristan und Isolde discography

What's New

When this discography was put online in February 2005, it was up-to-date as at the end of 2004. It is not intended to add new recordings issued subsequently.

The recent additions or significant corrections below are those overlooked when the discography went online. The Acknowledgements page expresses thanks to those who have provided new information.

Date

Item added

Where in the discography

10.1.2010

Liebestod by Johanne Brun, 1915

Act Three excerpts – Scene Three - Liebestod

24.12.2009

Specific dates added to orchestral recordings by La Rosa Parodi, Jochum, Albert, Varviso, and Rögner; corrections made to the venue of two Toscanini recordings

Orchestral arrangements

23.12.2009

Elizabeth Wysor added to the Lorenz/Golz Love Duet from 1950

Act Two excerpts, Scene 2: Love scene

2.4.2008

three more excerpts from the 25 December 1941 performance (Wilhelm Furtwängler) on Wiener Staatsoper Live, Vol. 6 (1994)

Principal Selections 1941-1943, Vienna

3.3.2008

date of Liebestod by Nahan Franko (ca. 1902) amended, and format changed to “cylinder” (instead of “78”)

Orchestral Arrangements

9.2.2008

1957 LP issue of Elizabeth Wysor’s Brangäne's warning

Act Two excerpts - Scene 2 - Brangäne's warning

20.10.2007

timing of Laure Bergé’s Liebestod (ca. 1930) added

Act Three excerpts – Scene Three - Liebestod

11.1.2007

extra take of Victor Herbert’s 1913 Liebestod on Vic 55041

Orchestral arrangements

29.12.2006

Mariana Stoica’s Liebestod on Electrecord LP from ca. 1977; Emmy Destinn’s Liebestod on Supraphon LPs from 1989; note on Elsa Alsen’s Liebestod with Toscanini from 1932

Act Three excerpts – Scene Three - Liebestod

13.9.2006

Australian pressing of Eileen Farrell’s Liebestod for the soundtrack of Interrupted Melody (1955)

Act Three excerpts – Scene Three - Liebestod

21.4.2006

Timings of 1928 Prelude & Liebestod by Inghelbrecht

Orchestral arrangements

3.4.2006

2003 CD of Toscanini’s Prelude from 22 February 1941

Orchestral arrangements

2.2.2006

1999 CD of Furtwängler's Prelude & Liebestod from Turin, 1954

Orchestral arrangements

23.1.2006

new DVD of 1962 Prelude & Liebestod - Knappertsbusch & Nilsson

Video selections

4.1.2006

2002 jazz arrangement by the Jean-Paul Brodbeck Trio

Jazz arrangements

20.12.2005

1983 Prelude and Liebestod conducted by Raffi Armenian

Orchestral arrangements

20.12.2005

Excerpts on Royale 1353 (1953) identified

Complete performances

5.10.2005

Timings of 1972 Prelude & Liebestod by Carlos Kleiber

Orchestral arrangements

24.8.2005

Act 2 from the Metropolitan Opera from 1943 (issued 2004)

Principal selections

19.8.2005

Birgit Nilsson at the Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala (1993)

Video selections

19.8.2005

Act 1 excerpts from Reichsrundfunk 1932 on Luise Willer CD (1998)

Act One excerpts

19.8.2005

Arrangement of Liebestod played by Gert Hecher, piano (1992)

Arrangements for piano

16.8.2005

CD re-issue of the Leipzig 1943 excerpts from Act 2 (Odeon 78s)

Principal selections

26.7.2005

1999 CD re-issue of Furtwängler's 1931 Bayreuth excerpts

Principal selections

26.7.2005

Live recording from Metropolitan Opera, 1971 (isssued in 2004)

Complete performances

17.3.2005

Felix Mottl's 1907 piano roll recordings

Arrangements for piano