Wagner: Tristan und Isolde / Nilsson, Sawallisch, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

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Label
Orfeo
Release Date
June 8, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      WAGNER, RICHARD
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Chor & Orchestra Der Bayreuther Festspiele
    • PERFORMER
      Windgassen, Nilsson, Hoffmann, Saeden, Greindl, Sawallis
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 08, 2018
    • UPC
      4011790951324
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ORF-C951183D
    • LABEL
      Orfeo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Vorspiel

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    2. Act I Scene 1: Westwärts schweift der Blick - Entartet Geschlecht! (Stimme eines jungen Seemanns, Isolde, Brangäne)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Josef Traxel, Birgit Nilsson, Grace Hoffmann

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    3. Act I Scene 2: Frisch weht der Wind der Heimat zu - Hab acht, Tristan! (Stimme eines jungen Seemann, Isolde, Brangäne, Tristan, Kurwenal, Sailors)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielchor, Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Josef Traxel, Birgit Nilsson, Grace Hoffmann, Erik Saedén, Wolfgang Windgassen

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    4. Act I Scene 3: Weh, ach wehe! Dies zu dulden! - Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen (Brangäne, Isolde)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Grace Hoffmann, Birgit Nilsson

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    5. Act I Scene 3: Welcher Wahn! Welch eitles Zürnen! (Brangäne, Isolde, Schiffvolk)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielchor, Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Grace Hoffmann, Birgit Nilsson

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    6. Act I Scene 4: Auf! Auf! Ihr Frauen! - Nun leb wohl, Brangäne! (Kurwenal, Isolde, Brangäne)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Erik Saedén, Birgit Nilsson, Grace Hoffmann

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    7. Act I Scene 5: Begehrt, Herrin, was ihr wünscht (Tristan, Isolde)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    8. Act I Scene 5: Mein Herr und Ohm (Isolde, chorus, Tristan)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielchor, Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    9. Act I Scene 5: Tristan! … Isolde! - Treuloser Holder! (Isolde, Tristan, Schiffsvolk, Brangäne, Kurwenal)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielchor, Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Grace Hoffmann, Erik Saedén

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    10. Act II: Einleitung

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    11. Act II Scene 1: Hörst du sie noch? - Dein Werk? O tör' ge Magd! (Isolde, Brangäne)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Birgit Nilsson, Grace Hoffmann

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    12. Act II Scene 2: Isolde! Geliebte! - Tristan! Geliebter! (Tristan, Isolde)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    13. Act II Scene 2: O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe (Tristan, Isolde)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    14. Act II Scene 2: Einsam wachend in der Nacht (Brangäne)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Grace Hoffmann

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    15. Act II Scene 2: Lausch, Geliebter! (Tristan, Isolde)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    16. Act II Scene 2: So starben wir, um ungetrennt - O ew'ge Nacht, süße Nacht! (Tristan, Isolde, Brangäne)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Grace Hoffmann

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    17. Act II Scene 3: Rette dich, Tristan! (Kurwenal, Tristan, Melot)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Erik Saedén, Wolfgang Windgassen, Fritz Uhl

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    18. Act II Scene 3: Tatest du's wirklich? Wähnst du das? (Marke)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Josef Greindl

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    19. Act II Scene 3: O König, das kann ich dir nicht sagen (Tristan)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    20. Act II Scene 3: Als für ein fremdes Land (Isolde, Melot, Tristan)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Birgit Nilsson, Fritz Uhl, Wolfgang Windgassen

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    21. Act III Scene 1: Einleitung

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    22. Act III Scene 1: Kurwenal! He! Sag, Kurwenal! - Die alte Weise - was weckt sie mich? (Hirt, Kurwenal, Tristan)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Hermann Winkler, Erik Saedén, Wolfgang Windgassen

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    23. Act III Scene 1: Hei nun! Wie du kamst? (Kurwenal, Tristan)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Erik Saedén, Wolfgang Windgassen

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    24. Act III Scene 1: Noch lösch das Licht nicht aus (Tristan, Kurwenal)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Erik Saedén

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    25. Act III Scene 1: Sterbend lag ich stumm im Kahn (Tristan, Kurwenal)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Erik Saedén

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    26. Act III Scene 2: Wie sie selig, hehr und milde - O Wonne! Freude! (Tristan, Kurwenal)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Erik Saedén

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    27. Act III Scene 2: O diese Sonne! Ha, dieser Tag! - Ich bin's, ich bin's, süßester Freund! (Tristan, Isolde)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    28. Act III Scene 3: Kurwenal! Hör'! Ein zweites Schiff! (Hirte, Kurwenal, Steuermann, Brangäne, Melot, Marke)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Hermann Winkler, Erik Saedén, Egmont Koch, Grace Hoffmann, Fritz Uhl, Josef Greindl

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    29. Act III Scene 3: Tot denn alles! Alles tot! (Marke, Brangäne)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Josef Greindl, Grace Hoffmann

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch

    30. Act III Scene 3: Mild und leise wie er lächelt (Isolde)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Ensemble: Bayreuther Festspielorchester

      Performer: Birgit Nilsson

      Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch


Nobody mastered and shaped the great roles of high drama in the post-war period as effortlessly as Birgit Nilsson - this is her stupendous breakthrough as Isolde at Bayreuth with the musical colleagues she so highly respected. Birgit Nilsson, the young Swedish singer, had, together with Sigurd Bjorling, been recommended by Leo Blech to Winifred Wagner back in 1948 “because her sons felt eager and obliged to establish a new ensemble,” or so Wolfgang Wagner commented in 1994. Nilsson declined an offer to portray Sieglinde in Die Walkure in Bayreuth in 1951 due to an engagement at Glyndebourne. After much negotiation, she was first engaged at the festival in 1953 when she assumed the soprano part in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. It was this production from 1958, however, that cemented her place in Bayreuth history. Wolfgang Wagner observed in his memoirs: “The way that Birgit Nilsson and Wolfgang Windgassen, in collaboration with Karl Bohm and Wieland Wagner, became the perfect duo in the title of Tristan… had been part of my design several years previously, and so I was delighted to have conferred the ‘minor orders’ on these two great artists.”