Tristan und Isolde discography
This is an audio and video discography of Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner which was first performed on 10 June 1865 in Munich.
Franz Strauss
Despite his personal distaste for Wagner, both as a man and a musician, Strauss's strict professionalism drove him to devote all his technical mastery to the important horn solos in Wagner's operas. He led the horn section in the premieres of "Tristan und Isolde," "Das Rheingold," and "Die Walküre." Wagner said, "Strauss is a detestable fellow but when he blows his horn one cannot sulk with him." At the conductor Hermann Levi's invitation, Strauss played in the premiere of "Parsifal" at Bayreuth in 1882. After a bad attack of influenza, Strauss was unable to play the horn for 18 months, but continued to play in the Court Opera orchestra as a violist, in which capacity he took part in the first performance in Munich of Wagner's "Tannhäuser".