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Richard Kogan '77, piano, Tamara Mitchel, soprano, appear in solo with the St. Lowell in the Fields Orchestra under the baton of Gerry Moshell. Brahms's Second Piano Concerto, the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, and Brahms's Lieder. Lowell Dining Hall, 8:30 p.m. and repeat performance...
Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger, Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Prelude to Parsifal, Preludes to Act I and Act III of Lohengrin (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor; Philips; $7.98). If records like this did not come along occasionally, one would tend to take these familiar excerpts for granted-as Herbert von Karajan obviously does in a bleary competing version on Angel. The freshness and vigor of Haitink's interpretations stem, surprisingly enough, from his scrupulously orthodox approach. He is less interested in conveying his own message than in getting his men-all of whom seem...
...with minor companies and substitute assignments in major houses, Klara never stopped believing. Now she was on the great stage of the Met, making rapturous musical love to handsome Jess Thomas, the reliable Wagnerian tenor. When at last she died by Thomas' side at the end of the Liebestod, the crowd went wild...
...that, if nothing else, one could depend on Melchior to make the same mistakes. While that judgment was harsh, it is true that during one of his umpteen performances of Tristan, Melchior fell asleep onstage, waking only when the mighty Flagstad fell over him at the conclusion of the Liebestod. But his dedication to his art was such that when he fractured his big toe during a performance of Die Walküre at the Met, he managed to hold his note for the full count and complete the show...
Hallmark Aids. Throughout, Everding has succeeded in projecting the lovers' desire for eternal night and their equation of day with destructive reality. Tristan dies in a bleak courtyard as the sun burns harshly through a sea mist. But Isolde's Liebestod brings on more aeronautics. Arms outstretched, she again appears in the firmament, looking for all the world like a "Peace on Earth" Christmas card...