John Goodall

Tristan und Isolde John Goodall

Decca's first digital studio recording of a Wagner opera, preserving the long-matured work of a legendary Wagnerian conductor.

By the time this recording was made in the winter of 1980-81 over the course of two extended sets of sessions, the Welsh National Opera had given 18 performances of Tristan und Isolde with this cast, most of them under the watchful eye and inspirational baton of Sir Reginald Goodall. The conductor had undertaken many preparatory rehearsals with individual members of the orchestra - the harp, even the bass clarinet - in order to achieve a properly Wagnerian synthesis of music and text.