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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Munich, 1981) | Bernstein

Tristan und Isolde "as Wagner wrote it"!

According to Karl Böhm, Leonard Bernstein's interpretation of Tristan was the closest ever to the true Wagner spirit:

"For the first time somebody dares to perform the music as Wagner wrote it. The rest of us never dared to!"

 Here is Leonard Bernstein leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde.