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Christopher Cook (Speaker), Elaine Claxton (Speaker), Laura Paton (Speaker), Sean Barrett (Speaker)
℗ 2006

  • Explaining Richard Wagner's 'Tristan Und Isolde' by Laura Paton, Christopher Cook, Sean Barrett and Elaine Claxton

    • Background: 'Since I have never in my life...'
      03:28
    • When Richard Wagner began to compose Tristan und Isolde...
      06:11
    • The music of Lohengrin...
      05:20
    • Composition: Tristan’s sailor looks to the horizon for Cornwall...
      03:46
    • The prose sketch for Tristan und Isolde...
      05:53
    • For the first and only time...
      05:10
    • Wagner’s most beautiful of dreams...
      06:33
    • The opera: Tristan und Isolde was never intended to be...
      07:19
    • Isolde, however, rails against Tristan...
      06:05
    • Act II takes place at night...
      07:20
    • Then, for a second time in the opera...
      06:08
    • Before the start of the Third Act...
      06:25
    • Tristan begins to rave again...
      03:39
    • The shepherd boy pipes another...
      06:14

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