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Opera Explained: WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde (Cook)

AOPERA EXPLAINED:
WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde

Written and read by Christopher Cook with
with Sean Barrett as Wagner
1 CD 12-page booklet
ISBN: 1-84379-218-4

Tristan und Isolde centres around two lovers who dream of romantic love and yearn for oblivion. No composer had written such a work before. Turning his back on traditional tonality, Wagner changed the course of Western music with Tristan und Isolde. But there's also fact behind the fiction: while he wrote his opera Wagner was in love with another's man's wife, Mathilde Wesendonk. So Tristan and Isolde are also Richard and Mathilde. Christopher Cook explores the making of a masterpiece, the story of lovers gripped by a passion that can only be consummated beyond the grave, a forbidden love that is blind to duty, honour and social obligation.

An Introduction to... WAGNER Tristan und Isolde

1.	Background: 'Since I have never in my life... ' 00:03:27

2.	When Richard Wagner began to compose Tristan und Isolde... 00:06:11

3.	The music of Lohengrin... 00:05:20

4.	Composition: Tristan’s sailor looks to the horizon for Cornwall... 00:03:46

5.	The prose sketch for Tristan und Isolde... 00:05:53

6.	For the first and only time... 00:05:10

7.	Wagner’s most beautiful of dreams... 00:06:33

8.	The opera: Tristan und Isolde was never intended to be... 00:07:18

9.	Isolde, however, rails against Tristan... 00:06:05

10.	Act II takes place at night... 00:07:19

11.	Then, for a second time in the opera... 00:06:08

12.	Before the start of the Third Act... 00:06:24

13.	Tristan begins to rave again... 00:03:38

14.	The shepherd boy pipes another... 00:06:13

Total Playing Time: 01:19:25

Reader(s):
Barrett, Sean; Claxton, Elaine; Cook, Christopher; Paton, Laura

Label: Naxos Educational

Series: Opera Explained

Genre: Music Education

Catalogue No: 8.558195

Barcode: 9781843792185

Physical Release: 07/2006


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Opera Explained: WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde (Cook)