Possible purchasers of this set should know:1) It's a very good performance; 2) About 25-30 minutes of Act 2 are missing, including the opening "Dich teure Halle", most of the Elisabeth/Tannhäuser scene, the Entrance of the Guests, and the last ten minutes.Furthermore, tracks 3 and 4 on disc 2 are out of order. To hear them in the correct sequence, play 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, and 7. Having said that, I can tell you that everyone is in excellent shape. Behrens was only a few years into her professional career. Her voice still had the lustre and light it lost when she began to take on roles too heavy for her voice. Randova is a strong Venus and Cassilly shows again why he was in so much demand for this role. Eventually his voice became rough and unsteady, but that wasn't until about 6-7 years later.Holloway sings an earnest, attractive Wolfram (he would sing quite a lot at the Met in the next decades though not in this role) and Smith is a fine Landgraf. I wish the other minstrels were identified; they're all excellent. Schneider conducts a solid performance that would be more effective were it complete. The voices are slightly recessed, but certainly audible. The Bootleg Gods aren't always as kind as we'd like them to be...For fans of the singers.

El sonido, es lo que hay, pero no hay que llorar por eso, de todas formas se escucha una buena dirección y a Behrens mas joven.