Tristan & Isolde - English Horn solo

Live unedited recording from Wagner "Tristan and Isolde".
Premiere Performance in Copenhagen on the 13th May 2009. The Royal Danish Orchestra (Det Kongelige Kapel) - Rixon Thomas, English Horn. This performance played on a Rigoutat English Horn.

[jonathanlavoie]

I could listen to this all day!! Very touching and moving passage played with great virtuosity and a musicality that that goes right to my heart!!

[lavo-ldwm]

By the way, this is the song Angelino plays in "Freaks" (1931, by Tod Browning), just before the Freaks' revenge...

[directorlenore]

Superb playing!!! Wonderful phrasing, the solo is beautifully sculpted from beginning to end!

[oboist]

Your playing always impresses me with the musicality you show.   This is not an easy piece to play or realise and you make it sound the most natural thing.  I have an old Buffet (from 1918) that I play this on,   but I am afraid I am nowhere near your expressive standard.  I hear it and weep.

[vintagehaynesflute]

Absolutely stunning! Thanks for sharing it!

[jochanaan]

Lovely playing, sir! I suppose you were onstage as the score and tradition specify...!

[RixonThomas]

@foxolesia Thanks for listening....but what does it mean?

[RixonThomas]

@ginsbergful Lee Morgan is an amazing player and a fine colleague...but he's not in this recording I'm afraid.

[Tinsnake]

@rixonplays Do you have the sheet music for this?

[ctrl_altesc]

The saddest and loneliest thing I have ever heard in my life.