Composer(s): Not Applicable, na
Label: Naxos Educational
Series: Naxos Opera Explained
Genre: Music Education
Catalogue No: 8.558195
Barcode: 636943819524
Release Date: 07/2006

Opera Explained: WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde (Cook)

Tracklist

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1Background: 'Since I have never in my life...'03:27
2When Richard Wagner began to compose Tristan und Isolde...06:11
3The music of Lohengrin...05:20
4Composition: Tristan’s sailor looks to the horizon for Cornwall...03:46
5The prose sketch for Tristan und Isolde...05:53
6For the first and only time...05:10
7Wagner’s most beautiful of dreams...06:33
8The opera: Tristan und Isolde was never intended to be...07:18
9Isolde, however, rails against Tristan...06:05
10Act II takes place at night...07:19
11Then, for a second time in the opera...06:08
12Before the start of the Third Act...06:24
13Tristan begins to rave again...03:38
14The shepherd boy pipes another...06:13

Total Playing Time: 01:19:25