WAGNER: TRISTAN & ISOLDE - CHOIR & ORCHESTRA OF COVENT GARDEN, PAPPANO (3 CDS)

The glory of this set is not only the radiant singing of Domingo, still in glorious, full-throated voice in his sixties, but the warmly understated conducting of Antonio Pappano...[Domingo] not only offers the most beautiful assumption on disc since Windgassen...but he sings with a passion beyond that of most Heldentenors, and he is matched by the tenderly girlish Isolde of Nina Stemme. PENGUIN GUIDE   Placido Domingo (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Mihoko Fujimura (Brangäne), Olaf Bär (Kurwenal), Jared Holt (Melot), René Pape (König Marke), Ian Bostridge (Hirt), Rolando Villazon (Junger Seeman) & Matthew Rose (Steuermann) The Royal Opera Chorus, Covent Garden & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano