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

Recordings

Hamelin: It's all about the music

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

Buy by post £19.99 DVDA68000 DVD

Liszt: Complete Piano Music

Leslie Howard (piano)

Buy by post £250.00 CDS44501/98 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 6 – Liszt at the Opera I

Leslie Howard (piano)

Buy by post £26.98 CDA66371/2 2CDs

Details

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

Track 9 on DVDA68000 [6'48] DVD

Leslie Howard (piano)

Track 1 on CDA66371/2 CD2 [7'02] 2CDs

Track 1 on CDS44501/98 CD38 [7'02] 99CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price)

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

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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