Wagner, R.: Scenes From Tristan Und Isolde and Gotterdammerung

Featuring

John Horton Murray
John McGlinn
Margaret Jane Wray
Nancy Maultsby
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Richard Wagner

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Performer Biography

Margaret Jane Wray, a jugendlich-dramatisch soprano, has received special acclaim for her Wagnerian portrayals at major theaters like the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala.

Recording & Production

This recording features Wagner's concert ending to the Love Duet from Tristan und Isolde, which is only its second recording.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Wagner was inspired by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as a boy and drew literary ambition from studying Shakespeare.

Performer Biography

The Russian State Symphony Orchestra, a leading Russian ensemble, gave its first performance in 1936 and has toured internationally since 1957.

Compositional Technique

Wagner's concert ending for the Tristan und Isolde Love Duet is musically simple, appending the final nineteen measures of the Liebestod to the end of the duet.

Composer Biography

Richard Wagner's career was marked by betrayals, accumulating debts, and opportunism, yet he exerted a hypnotic influence over his followers.

Composition History

The domestic intrigue between Wagner, his wife Minna, and Mathilde Wesendonck (wife of banker Otto Wesendonck) partly inspired the story of doomed lovers in Tristan und Isolde.