Richard Wagner / Henk de Vlieger (Arr.) TRISTAN & ISOLDE an orchestral passion Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra

• 1 Einleitung 10:27
• 2 Isoldes Liebesverlangen 07:31
• 3 Nachtgesang 17:32
• 4 Vorspiel und Reigen 08:00
• 5 Tristans Vision 04:38
• 6 Das Wiedersehen 06:05
• 7 Isoldes Liebestod 06:03
• Total Runtime 01:00:16

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The almost one-hour long symphonic work ' Tristan & Isolde. An orchestral Passion' connects central passages of the opera, and thereby traces the action of the 'plot in three acts' (as Wagner simply called his great work). Already the prelude, perhaps the most famous operatic prelude in the history of music, shows the Wagnerian principles of 'infinite melody' and the 'art of the transition', for which 'Tristan and Isolde' can be regarded as a typical example. As regards content, Wagner here anicipates the scene in the first act in which Tristan and Isolde take the love potion (which they think to be a death potion). Wagner himself described the immense consequences which arise from this as follows: 'There hence was no end to the yearning, the longing, the bliss and the misery of love: world, power, glory, honour, chivalry, loyalty, friendship – all scattered like soulless dream; only one thing still living : longing, insatiable, constantly newly formed yearning, thirsting and languishing; the only redemption: death, dying, sinking, no longer awakening!'

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