Opera Explained: WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde (Cook) (Christopher Cook/ Elaine Claxton/ Laura Paton/ Sean Barrett) (Naxos: 8.558195)

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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

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