The popular Prelude and the so-called Liebestod ("Mild und Leise") from Richard Wagner's music drama Tristan und Isolde are the most familiar parts orchestras play, most often in the 1859 concert arrangement by Wagner. (He preferred that the term Liebestod be applied to the Prelude only, and originally titled his concert version Liebestod und Verklärung, or "Love-death and Transfiguration.") The featured work of this Chandos SACD is the 1994 suite arranged by Henk de Vlieger, fashioned from key parts of the entire opera, ...
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The popular Prelude and the so-called Liebestod ("Mild und Leise") from Richard Wagner's music drama Tristan und Isolde are the most familiar parts orchestras play, most often in the 1859 concert arrangement by Wagner. (He preferred that the term Liebestod be applied to the Prelude only, and originally titled his concert version Liebestod und Verklärung, or "Love-death and Transfiguration.") The featured work of this Chandos SACD is the 1994 suite arranged by Henk de Vlieger, fashioned from key parts of the entire opera, not just the beginning and end. Tristan und Isolde: An Orchestral Passion is a lengthy tone poem that includes key passages, in much the same manner as de Vlieger's other symphonic syntheses on Der Ring des Nibelungen, Parsifal, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. These instrumental potpourris have all been performed by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, for whom de Vlieger serves double duty as arranger and percussionist, and the recordings of the first three suites with...
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