Isoldens Liebestod – Schlußszene aus Richard Wagners Tristan und Isolde, S447 (Liszt/Wagner) - from CDA66371/2 - Hyperion Records

Faust and Mephistopheles by Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
Reproduced by permission of The Wallace Collection, London

Track(s) taken from CDA66371/2

We have Liszt to thank for the title which has clung, with Wagner’s approval, to the last scene of Tristan. Of course, this would be the last opera that Liszt heard before his death, and it had been close to his heart from its inception. A short phrase taken from the second act duet introduces a transcription of Isolde’s Love-Death which manages to convey not just Wagner, but Liszt’s total admiration of the music which he thought to be the greatest of its time.

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Recording details: December 1989
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: July 1990
Total duration: 7 minutes 2 seconds

Isoldens Liebestod – Schlußszene aus Richard Wagners Tristan und Isolde, S447

composer

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

1867

composer

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

1859; Tristan und Isolde

Leslie Howard (piano)