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Wagner TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: misc. excerpts from Act 1 (pt.1)
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Prelude
1-2) Albert Coates 26.I.1926 London
3-4) Max von Schillings 1927 Berlin
5*) Karl Muck 15.V.1928 Berlin
6*) Richard Strauss 13.XII.1928 Berlin
7-9) Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht 1928 Paris
10) Wilhelm Furtwängler 1930 Berlin
11) William Steinberg 26-27.V.1940 Philadelphia
12) Bruno Walter 14.V.1944 New York
13) Fritz Busch 1946 Los Angeles
14) Victor de Sabata 14.IV.1948 Milan
15-17) Issay Dobrowen 1950 London
18) Arturo Toscanini 19.IX.1952 Milan
19-20) Hans Swarowsky 8.X.1952 Wien
21) Carl Schuricht 4.VI.1954 Paris
22) Jascha Horenstein 16.IX.1954 Bamberg
23) George Szell 1956 Cleveland
(*with Wagner's 1860 concert ending)
Prelude, scenes i and ii
(young sailor, Isolde, Brangäne, Kurwenal, Tristan)
24) Parry Jones, Kirsten Flagstad, Margarete Klose, Herbert Janssen,
Lauritz Melchior/Thomas Beecham 18.VI.1937 London
25) Richard Holm, Helena Braun, Margarete Klose, Rudolf Grossmann,
Günther Treptow/Erich Kleiber 20.VII.1952 München
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1) (through Fluch dir, Verruchter!) Werner Faulhaber, Martha Mödl, Ira Malaniuk,
Hans Hotter, Ramón Vinay/Herbert von Karajan 23.VII.1952 Bayreuth
2-4) (through Fluch dir, Verruchter!) Eugene Tobin, Astrid Varnay, Ira Malaniuk,
Gustav Neidlinger, Ramón Vinay/Eugen Jochum 30.VII.1953 Bayreuth
5) Albert Da Costa, Astrid Varnay, Blanche Thebom, Josef Metternich,
Set Svanholm/Rudolf Kempe 19.III.1955 New York
6) Waldemar Kmentt, Birgit Nilsson, Regina Resnik, Tom Krause,
Fritz Uhl/Georg Solti 1960 Wien
7-10) (through Fluch dir, Verruchter!) Peter Schreier, Birgit Nilsson,
Christa Ludwig, Eberhard Wächter, Wolfgang Windgassen
/Karl Böhm 1966 Bayreuth
11) Anton Dermota, Catarina Ligendza, Ruza Baldani, Gustav Neidlinger,
Hans Hopf/Carlos Kleiber 7.X.1973 Wien
various excerpts from scenes i-ii
12) (Wer Kornwalls Kron') Friedrich Weidemann 1907 Wien
13) (Westwärts schweift) Karl Jörn 18.XII.1911 Berlin
14) (Westwärts schweift) Hermann Schramm 12.IV.1923 Berlin
15-16) (fragments) Frida Leider, Hans Clemens (sailor), Maria Olszewska,
Gustav Schützendorf, Lauritz Melchior/Artur Bodanzky 11.III.1933 New York
17) (scene ii fragments; variable sound) Hans Clemens, Gertrude Kappel,
Doris Doe, Friedrich Schorr, Lauritz Melchior/Artur Bodanzky 6.I.1934 New York
18) (scenes i-ii) Martin Kremer, Margarete Bäumer, Inger Karén,
Georg Hann, Joachim Sattler/Hans Weisbach 12.III.1938 Leipzig
19;20) (fragments) Willy Franter, Anny Konetzni, Margarete Klose,
Max Lorenz, Paul Schöffler/Wilhelm Furtwängler 2.I.1943 Wien
21) (Mir erkoren) Paula Buchner, Margarete Klose, Jaro Prohaska,
Max Lorenz/Robert Heger V.1943 Berlin
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1) (scenes i-ii) John Garris, Helen Traubel, Margaret Harshaw, Joel Berglund,
Set Svanholm/Fritz Busch 30.XI.1946 New York
2) (Mir erkoren) Kirsten Flagstad, Viorica Ursuleac, Hans Hotter,
Set Svanholm/Erich Kleiber 20.VIII.1948 Buenos Aires
3) (Habt acht, Tristan) Sigurd Björling, Max Lorenz, Elsa Cavelti
/Victor de Sabata 13.XII.1951 Milan
4) (Mir erkoren) Mina Bolotine, Maura Moreira/Robert Wagner 1962 Innsbruck
5) (scene i & first part of ii) George Shirley, Birgit Nilsson, Irene Dalis
/Georg Solti 23.II.1963 New York
6) (Luft! Luft!) Helga Dernesch, Peter Schreier, Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry,
Jon Vickers/Herbert von Karajan XII.1971-I.1972 Berlin
7) (scenes i-ii) Siegfried Jerusalem, Catarina Ligendza, Yvonne Minton,
Donald McIntyre, Spas Wenkoff/Horst Stein 24.VII.1977 Bayreuth
Isolde's narrative and curse
8*,9) (two narrative excerpts) Pelagie Greeff-Andriessen
*V.1901, VIII-X.1903 Frankfurt am Main
10) (in English) Louise Trenton (Brangäne), Florence Austral
/Albert Coates 6.VI.1924 London
11) Frida Leider, Elfriede Marherr-Wagner/Leo Blech 8.XI.1928 Berlin
12-13) Margarete Bäumer/Frieder Weissmann 20.IX.1929 Berlin
14) (fragment) Nanny Larsén-Todsen/Wilhelm Furtwängler 18.VIII.1931 Bayreuth
15) (fragment) Frida Leider, Maria Olszewska/Artur Bodanzky 11.III.1933 New York
16) (fragment) Gertrude Kappel, Doris Doe/Artur Bodanzky 6.I.1934 New York
17) Kirsten Flagstad, Kerstin Thorborg/Artur Bodanzky 2.I.1937 New York
18) Helen Traubel/Artur Rodzinski 23.V.1945 New York
19) Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Höngen/Issay Dobrowen 31.III.1948 London
20) Paula Baumann, Margarete Klose
/Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt 16.XII.1949 Hamburg
21) Hertha Töpper, Astrid Varnay/Hermann Weigert VI.1954 München
22) (O Wunder! Wo hatt' ich die Augen?) Hertha Töpper, Birgit Nilsson
/Pierre Boulez 10.IV.1967 Osaka (Bayreuth on tour)
23) (scene iii) Yvonne Minton, Catarina Ligendza
/Carlos Kleiber 30.VII.1976 Bayreuth
24) Gwyneth Jones, Ruza Baldani/Kurt Herbert Adler 21.XI.1980 San Francisco
25) (scene iii) Brigitte Fassbaender, Margaret Price
/Carlos Kleiber 1980-81 Dresden
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various i-iii or ii-iii excerpts
1) (Darf ich die Antwort) Rudolf Bockelmann, Gunnar Graarud, Anny Helm,
Nanny Larsén-Todsen/Karl Elmendorff VII.1928 Bayreuth
2) (Auf jeder Stelle) Günther Treptow, Margarete Klose, Paul Schöffler,
Helena Braun/Hans Knappertsbusch 23.VII.1950 München
3) (Hab acht, Tristan) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ludwig Suthaus,
Blanche Thebom, Kirsten Flagstad/Wilhelm Furtwängler VI.1952 London
4) (Westwärts schweift) Julius Patzak, Gertrude Grob-Prandl,
Georgine von Milinkovic, Toni Blankenheim, Rudolf Lustig
/André Cluytens 12.II.1956 Wien
5-6) (Westwärts schweift) Josef Traxel, Birgit Nilsson, Grace Hoffman,
Erik Saedén, Wolfgang Windgassen/Wolfgang Sawallisch 26.VII.1958 Bayreuth
7) (Hab acht, Tristan) Walter Cassel, Karl Liebl, Irene Dalis, Birgit Nilsson
/Joseph Rosenstock 18.III.1961 New York
8) (Mir erkoren) Gladys Kuchta, Grace Hoffman, Carlos Alexander,
Hans Beirer/Ferdinand Leitner 13.X.1963 Buenos Aires
9) (Mir erkoren) Anja Silja, Kerstin Meyer, Gustav Neidlinger,
Hans Beirer/André Cluytens 16.I.1965 Rome
10) (Westwärts schweift) Ryland Davies, Birgit Nilsson, Janis Martin,
William Dooley, Wolfgang Windgassen/Otmar Suitner 6.XI.1970 San Francisco
11-12) (Mir erkoren) Linda Esther Gray, Anne Wilkens,
Phillip Joll, John Mitchinson/Reginald Goodall 1980-81 Swansea
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