Tristan und Isolde/Tristan and Isolde

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"'Tristan und Isolde' is the central work of all music history, the hub of the wheel... I have spent my life since I first read it, trying to solve it. It is incredibly prophetic."
-Leonard Bernstein, 1981

In 1981, Leonard Bernstein began conducting the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" in Munich's Hercules Hall. Performed one act at a time, in January, April, and November of 1981, respectively, Bernstein's "Tristan und Isolde" was telecast live and later released as an audio recording by Philips--to some controversy.

Karl Böhm remarked, with regards to Bernstein's exaggeratedly slow tempi, "For the first time, someone dares to perform this music as Wagner wrote it." Böhm's own recording of the Prelude was four minutes faster.

Upon completion of the project, Bernstein declared, "My life is complete... I don't care what happens after this. It is the finest thing I've ever done."

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Chapters 18 to 25 deal with the repression of cultural-historical and contemporary interpretation. The opera, as a counterpart of the Alexandrian culture, forms an aesthetics of word and sound art, which Nietzsche sees as a visionary resurrection in Wagner's tragedies and in mythical wisdom. Art is the indispensable consolation before the tragedy that Kant and Schopenhauer worked out with their achievements in the field of reason and will. Naive tone paintings of German music, as used by Bach and Beethoven in their operas, are overcome in Wagner's operas. Mythical stage myths, the visualization of symphonic violence and the protection against it bring back the Dionysian music as the "ureine" of the will (Tristan and Isolde). Music and tragic myth are equally expressions of the Dionysian empowerment of a people and inseparable from each other. In the musical dramas of Wagner this was realized and the true culture reborn, as arose from the Greek new German culture.