Title: great this is NOT
Product review: How anyone could be so dense as to consider this recording "great" is beyond me. Nilsson is available in a number of live performances with a FAR better conductor and Tristan than here. Solti is too slap-dash. He knew nothing of TRISTAN but, based on his Ring sales, he was given this and other recordings. Yet he had no concept of the opera at all. Nilsson is great but she's the only one. Uhl was a decent enough artist but was never a Tristan even with the help of over-miking. Go for any of the Nilsson - Windgassen or the Nilsson - Vickers sets (by the way, Windgassen was much better than the crooning Vickers as Tristan). If you can find the LIVE Bayreuth performance with Nilsson & Windgassen under Bohm, THAT will raise you blood pressure. The DG set is good but was a patchwork of live & rehearsal perfoamnces. The live one has the occasional blemish but you don't remember them. Bottom line - forget this Solti.
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