An introduction to-- Wagner, Tristan und Isolde
(2006)

Nonfiction

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Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Naxos : Made available through hoopla, 2006
EDITION
Unabridged
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1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 19 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781843793342 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11137475, 1843793342 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11137475
LANGUAGE
English
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Narrated by Christopher Cook

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

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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