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Stuart Skelton, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Ekaterina Gubanova, Waso, Asher Fisch - Tristan Und Isolde [Set] (CD 3 TO 4 DISC SET) ABC Classic is proud to announce the release of a landmark new recording of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, one of the towering creations in the history of music. This recording Ücaptured live in concert in August 2018 Üfeatures a remarkable cast of singers including Stuart Skelton, one of the world's greatest Wagner singers, who makes his long-awaited debut recording as Tristan. One of his signature roles, Skelton has performed Tristanto great acclaim all over the world, from The Metropolitan Opera in New York to the English National Opera and Germany's Baden-Baden Festival, hailedas "a Tristan for the ages", his performance "an unflagging, glorious lighthouse of Wagnerian singing, with inexhaustible power, vibrant resonance allied to warmth, subtlety and grace, and committed dramatic expression". Isolde is sung by German soprano Gun-Brit Barkmin, acclaimed over her glittering career for her interpretation of leading roles in works by JanÍek, Britten, Berg, Wagner and Richard Strauss. Her Isolde was hailed as "thrilling", "an extraordinarily complete portrayal" thatwas "a revelation". They are joined on this recording by an all-star cast includingEkaterina Gubanova, Boaz Danieland Ain Anger, alongside theWest Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by their Principal Conductor Asher Fisch, one of today's supreme Wagner interpreters. Tristan und Isoldechanged forever the rules about what music should and could be, and introduced concepts Üincluding chromaticism, dissonance and even atonality Üwhich would define the development of music throughout the 20th century. But it is above all a work of staggering beauty, of love unfulfilled, where singers and orchestra come together in some of the most sublime music ever written. "Life and death, the whole import and existence of the outer world," wrote Wagner himself, "here hang on nothing butthe inner movements of the soul." Tracklistings: Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Stuart Skelton Tristan Gun-Brit BarkminIsolde Ekaterina GubanovaBrangäne Boaz Daniel Kurwenal Ain Anger King Marke Angus Wood Melot Paul O'Neill Young Sailor / Shepherd Andrew Foote Steersman WASO Chorus St George's Cathedral Consort West Australian Symphony Orchestra Asher Fisch Conductor Recorded live in concert
