© Toni Scholz
© Toni Scholz
© Felix Broede
© Felix Broede
  • Weimarhalle

Tristan without words

Special concert of the Staatskapelle Weimar

Peter I. Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture »Romeo and Juliet«
Richard Wagner (arrangement Henk de Vlieger) »Tristan & Isolde, an orchestral passion«

The symphonic arrangement of Wagner's »Tristan and Isolde« links the central threads of the musical drama and thus traces - purely instrumentally - the events of the »plot in three acts«. The prelude already reveals the Wagnerian principles of »infinite melody« and the »art of transition« and, in terms of content, anticipates the scene in Act 1 in which Tristan and Isolde drink the love potion which they think is a potion of death. Wagner himself described the monstrous consequences of this as follows: »Now there was no end to the longing, the desire, the delight and the misery of love: world, power, glory, honor, chivalry, loyalty, friendship - everything had vanished like an insubstantial dream; only one thing was still alive: longing, insatiable, eternally renewed desire, thirst and languishing; the only redemption: death, dying, perishing, no longer awakening!«

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  • Hansjörg Albrecht (Dirigent)