WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde - Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy (3 DVD)

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

John Treleaven, Deborah Polaski, Erik Halfvarson, Falk Struckmann, Lioba Braun, Wolfgang Rauch

Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy, stage direction by Alfred Kirchner

…welcome this Barcelona version, featuring several stars from its middling but enjoyable Ring, and a very similar production - starkly modernistic, a car-ferry's bow and a surreal garden, but with unusual respect for Wagner's imagery. …a slowish reading but with plenty of energy and some fine playing. -- BBC Music Magazine