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Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde, An Orchestral Passion - Arranged By Henk De Vlieger / Jarvi, RSNO
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Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde, An Orchestral Passion - Arranged By Henk De Vlieger / Jarvi, RSNO

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Composer
WAGNER, RICHARD
Artist
Jarvi
Format
SACD
Label
Chandos
Released
Feb 22, 2011
Catalog #
CHSA 5087
UPC
095115508725

About

Neeme Järvi is back conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in the third of four albums featuring Henk de Vlieger's bold arrangements of operas by Wagner. Of the first album (CHSA 5060), Classic FM wrote: 'Dutch composer Henk de Vlieger builds a penetrating symphonic poem that reflects the dramatic depths of The Ring.' In Volume 3, De Vlieger turns to Wagner's tragic romantic opera Tristan und Isolde, which is here treated symphonically. The key themes of anticipation, longing, rapture, separation, hope, death, and transfiguration are expressed solely through orchestral forces. A particularly striking feature of the lovers' duet, a movement entitled 'Nachtgesang', is the conspicuous presence of the violin and the clarinet, which pick out the sung parts of the two lovers. The movement ends on an unresolved chord followed by a compelling caesura, which symbolises the painful realisation that it will never be possible for them to fulfil their great love. This disc also includes the overture to Wagner's Die Feen. This was the composer's first great romantic, although less well-known, opera. The overall style of the work, based on La donna serpente by Carlo Gozzi, owes its essentials to Beethoven, Marschner, and Weber - something that Wagner himself never hid in the least. However, the opera also displays clearly audible foreshadowings of the composer's later works, Tannhäuser and Lohengrin, in particular. Wagner based Das Liebesverbot on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, and included on this disc is the overture to the opera. It is perhaps the most Mediterranean-sounding of the composer's operas, something especially apparent in the brimming vitality of the overture in which the tone is set straight away by the sparkling contributions of castanets, triangle, and tambourine. Described as a 'große komische Oper', it was composed in 1834, and Wagner conducted the premiere at Magdeburg in 1836. The first performance poorly attended and involving a lead singer who forgot the words and had to improvise, the opera was a resounding flop and its second performance had to be cancelled after a fist-fight broke out backstage between the prima donna's husband and a leading tenor before the curtain had even risen. The opera was never performed again in Wagner's lifetime.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 Das Liebesverbot: Overture 07:36
    Track
    1
    Title
    Das Liebesverbot: Overture
    Duration
    07:36
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  2. 2 Die Feen: Overture 10:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    Die Feen: Overture
    Duration
    10:48
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  3. 3 I. Einleitung 06:41
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. Einleitung
    Duration
    06:41
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  4. 4 II. Isoldes Liebesverlangen 08:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Isoldes Liebesverlangen
    Duration
    08:12
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  5. 5 III. Nachtgesang 15:43
    Track
    5
    Title
    III. Nachtgesang
    Duration
    15:43
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  6. 6 IV. Vorspiel und Reigen 05:31
    Track
    6
    Title
    IV. Vorspiel und Reigen
    Duration
    05:31
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  7. 7 V. Tristans Vision 04:00
    Track
    7
    Title
    V. Tristans Vision
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  8. 8 VI. Das Wiedersehen 05:55
    Track
    8
    Title
    VI. Das Wiedersehen
    Duration
    05:55
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi
  9. 9 VII. Isoldes Liebestod 05:27
    Track
    9
    Title
    VII. Isoldes Liebestod
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Richard Wagner
    Ensemble
    Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    Conductor
    Neeme Järvi