Liszt - Isoldens Liebestod: Schlußszene aus Richard Wagners Tristan und Isolde, S447 (Módica)

[@MBL2210]

Nice to hear you performing! Sounds marvelous.

[@TheModicaLiszt]

Thanks!

[@pseudo_klavier]

One of my favourite piece. I'll practice this later again

[@M.Arsenault]

Really a wonderful interpretation of this piece

[@TheModicaLiszt]

Thank you very much! Much appreciated :)

[@treesny]

I believe that Wagner originally used the title "Liebestod" for the orchestral piece we now call the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde; Liszt transferred that label to Isolde's final monologue, replacing Wagner's title of "Verklärung" = Transfiguration. The reason was surely that Liszt, as a believing Catholic, could not stomach having a term with a specific Christian meaning applied to a non-religious context. Wagner, who apparently disliked Liszt's devotional masterpiece Christus (which didn't stop him from absorbing important harmonic lessons from it), had no such qualms.