Richard Wagner: Tristan & Isolde (Naxos Audio CD)

Wolfgang Millgram
Lennart Forsén
Hedwig Fassbender
Gunnar Lundberg
Magnus Kyhle
Martina Dike

Royal Swedish Opera Male Chorus
Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra
Leif Segerstam, conductor

“... a trump card in the ravishing Isolde of Hedwig Fassbender, sung with a tenderness and girlish freshness … What is remarkable about Fassbender’s singing is the beauty and evenness of her production over the widest dynamic range, from the pinging accuracy of Isolde’s Act 1 curse … to hushed pianissimo flawlessly sustained. I cannot remember an account of Isolde’s brief, tender solo at the end of Act 2 quite so moving as hers.”
Gramophone