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Natasha Loges recommends the best recording of Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder.

These five settings of poems by Mathilde Wesendonck were written in the late 1850s, when Wagner was staying by their villa in Zurich. He'd fallen deeply in love with Mathilde and although no one knows what really happened between them, the mutual infatuation certainly contributed to the intensity in the creation of his opera Tristan und Isolde. Nested within that opera are these five songs steeped in yearning and lust which share the motifs of night and day, the sun and the sea.

Recommended recording:

Julia Varady (soprano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (conductor)

Orfeo C467 981A

Also recommended:

Eileen Farrell (soprano), New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

Sony Classical SMK 47644

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

Warner Classics 5099924846820