In Reply to: Agreed about Bohm, early years, middle years, or late years. I can't think of a single performance of his posted by jdaniel@jps.net on June 20, 2017 at 14:30:06:
If I really **liked** Tristan enough to listen to it on a desert island, Boehm's Bayreuth live performance would be my choice.
Regarding Magic Flute--I don't know any performance from any era that betters the Fricsay mono version (1955) with Streich, Stader, Haefliger, Fischer-Dieskau, etc. For lo-fi sampling, here's the complete recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCY7GHSovE0
For non-German speakers like me, I'm happy to have the dialogue left out, too.
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