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Reiner's 1936 Tristan and Isolde, Act I Posted by Steve Luciani on December 16, 2025, 3:46 pm Edited by board administrator December 16, 2025, 5:03 pm Listening with good headphones, hard to imagine this recording is almost 90 years old. Please search on YouTube for "Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Act I (1936) Flagstad/Melchior/Reiner"

Re: Reiner's 1936 Tristan and Isolde, Act I Posted by Ralph Moore on December 16, 2025, 3:50 pm, in reply to "Reiner's 1936 Tristan and Isolde, Act I" Steve, we made a decision some time back not to post links to YouTube for a number of reasons including possible copyright infringement, so we just direct readers to search for themselves and I have modified your posting accordingly. Previous Message Listening with good headphones, hard to imagine this recording is almost 90 years old. Please search for "Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Act I (1936) Flagstad/Melchior/Reiner"

Re: Reiner's 1936 Tristan and Isolde, Act I Posted by Steve Luciani on December 18, 2025, 12:30 am, in reply to "Reiner's 1936 Tristan and Isolde, Act I" If you're a fan of this performance, Act II just went up on the YouTube Private Reserve channel. Previous Message Listening with good headphones, hard to imagine this recording is almost 90 years old. Please search on YouTube for "Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Act I (1936) Flagstad/Melchior/Reiner"

Re: Reiner's 1936 Tristan and Isolde, Act I Posted by Steve Luciani on December 18, 2025, 3:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Reiner's 1936 Tristan and Isolde, Act I" Act III is there now as well. With headphones on, compared to the very fine Marston restoration, which this is based on, I feel like I'm sitting in the audience, rather than listening to a very clean mono broadcast. Previous Message If you're a fan of this performance, Act II just went up on the YouTube Private Reserve channel. Previous Message Listening with good headphones, hard to imagine this recording is almost 90 years old. Please search on YouTube for "Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Act I (1936) Flagstad/Melchior/Reiner"

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