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Tristan und Isolde
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Overview
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.
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781843793342
- Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
- Publish Date: July 2006
- Author: Christopher Cook
- Narrator: Christopher Cook
- Duration: 01:19:31