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Isoldens Liebestod – Schlußszene aus Richard Wagners Tristan und Isolde, S447
composer
1867
composer
1859; Tristan und Isolde
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.
from notes by Leslie Howard © 1990
Recordings
 Marc-André Hamelin - It's all about the musicDVDA68000DVDThis album is not available for download  'There's no doubt about Hamelin's superb artistry, or the extraordinary inventiveness of his programming… Hamelin is the most poetic of virtuoso players and his musical refinement is a constant feature of a recital which includes some extremely di ...» More |
 Liszt: Excerpts from Années de pèlerinage - Italie & other worksStudio Master: SIGCD290Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  Pianist Llyr Williams, acclaimed soloist, accompanist and chamber musician chose to focus on virtuosic selections from Franz Liszt. Highly sought after as a performer in the United Kingdom, he was awarded a South Bank Sky Arts Award in 2012 for h ...» More |
 Liszt: The complete music for solo piano, Vol. 6 - Liszt at the Opera ICDA66371/22CDs ‘Outstanding’ (CDReview) «Leslie Howard domine avec beaucoup de chic le barrage technique des difficultés pianistiques» (EcouterVoir, France)» More |
 Liszt: Complete Piano MusicCDS44501/9899CDs Boxed set + book (at a special price) Leslie Howard’s recordings of Liszt’s complete piano music, on 99 CDs, is one of the monumental achievements in the history of recorded music. Remarkable as much for its musicological research and scholarly rigour as for Howard’s Herculean piano p ...» More |
 Wagner: Wagner without wordsStudio Master: SIGCD388Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available Pianist Llŷr Williams explores Wagner’s rich and evocative sound-world from a different perspective. Featuring insightful arrangements of Richard Wagner’s operas by Franz Liszt, Glenn Gould and Williams himself, as well as a selection of Wagner’s ...» More |
Details
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)
