Tristan und Isolde discography

Principal Selections

1941-1943, Vienna, public performances

Max Lorenz, Tristan
Herbert Alsen, King Marke
Anny Konetzni, Isolde
Paul Schöffler, Kurwenal
Georg Monthy, Melot
Margarete Klose, Brangäne
Hermann Gallos, Shepherd
Karl Ettl, Steersman
Willy Franter, Sailor
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra,
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Excerpts from Acts 1, 2 and 3:

a. Act 1, Scene 1: from "Westwärts schweift de Blick" (Sailor) to "...den lass' ich euch Winden zum Lohn!" (Isolde) (3' 48")

b. Act 1, Scene 2: from "...dass du zur Stell' ihr nahtest" (Brangäne) to "Den hab' ich wohl vernommen kein Wort das mir entging" (Isolde) (4' 24")

c. Act 1, Scene 5: from "Auf das Tau! Anker los!" (Sailors) to "Isolde! Herrin! Fassung nur heut'!" (Brangäne) (8' 37")

d. Act 2, Scene 1: from "Hörst du sie nicht?" (Isolde) to "König Marke empfing" (Brangäne) (4' 17")

e. Act 2, Scene 1: from "Frau Minne kenntest du nicht?" (Isolde) to "sie zu löschen zag' ich nicht" (Isolde) (end of the scene) (3' 40") [continuing without a break to f.]

f. Act 2, Scene 2: from "Isolde! Geliebter!" (Tristan) (beginning of scene) to "Bald entweicht die Nacht!" (Brangäne) (23' 53")

f. bis Act 2, scene 2: "O sink’ hernieder" to "bricht mein Blick sich wonn’" (Tristan, Isolde) (4’ 11”)

f. ter Act 2, scene 2: "Selbst dann bin ich die Welt… hold bewusster Wunsch" (Tristan, Isolde) … "Einsam wachend to Bald entweicht die Nacht!" (Brangäne) (4’ 10”)

f. quater Act 2, scene 2: "So stürben wir" (Tristan) to "Seinen Trug ewig zu fliehn" (Isolde) (4’ 30”)

g. Act 2, Scene 2: from "Lausch', Geliebter!" (Isolde) to "Rette dich, Tristan!" (Kurwenal) (end of the scene) (14' 22")

h. Act 2, Scene 3: from "Wohin nun Tristan scheidet" (Tristan) to the end of the Act (6' 57")

i. Act 3 complete, except for the first 50 bars: i.e., from shepherd's piping at the end of the Prelude to the end of the Act (69' 45")

Recorded at live performances on 25 December 1941 (d., e., f. bis, f. ter, f. quater, and h.) and 2 January 1943 (the remainder)

CD: in "Wiener Staatsoper Live, Vol. 6": Koch Schwann 3-1456-2 (2 CDs) (1994) (f. bis, f. ter, f. quater); "Wiener Staatsoper Live, Vol. 11": Koch Schwann 3-1461-2 (2 CDs) (1994) (the remainder)

Excerpts from these performances appeared earlier as follows:

j. Act 2, Scene 2: from "Einsam wachend" to "Bald entweicht die Nacht!" (Brangäne)
LP: EJS 399 (1967); in "100 Jahre Bayreuth": BASF/Acanta HB 22 863-0 (4 LPs) (1976) (claims to have been recorded in Berlin in 1942); in "Die legendäre Zeit der Berliner Oper": Ullstein Musik RL 30439 (2 LPs) (1980) (claims to have been recorded in Berlin in 1942)
CD: in "Die Vergessen": Pilz History CD 78 007 (1988); in "Voices from Lindenoper on Radio (1927-1945)": Radio Years RY 76 (1 CD) (1995) (claims to have been recorded in Berlin in 1942); "The Legendary Singers at Lindenoper, Berlin (1927-1945)": Minerva MN-A21 (1 CD) (1996)

k. Act 2, Scene 2: from "O sink' hernieder" (Tristan, Isolde) to "Rette dich, Tristan!" (Kurwenal)
l. Act 2, Scene 3: from "Wohin nun Tristan scheidet" (Tristan) to the end of the Act
m. Act 3, Scenes 1 and 3: from "Wie kam ich her?" (Tristan) to "vor Sehnsucht nicht zu sterben!" (Tristan); and then, without any break, from "sie lächelt mir Trost (Tristan) to "wie schön bist du!" (Tristan); and then again, without any break, from "Mild und leise" to "höchste Lust!" (Isolde)
LP: UORC 267 (1 LP) (1975)