Wagner - Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde for Brass Ensemble new music for evening shadows darken

for evening shadows darken

the work was originally written for string orchestra and piano and follows a mostly strict Bach-like discipline in style ending with a big splash of sound

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Musicians have agreed that this is a sublime work of true genius

Paul Bryan discovered the two movement Concerto for Trombone by Georg Christoph Wagenseil

Wagner - Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde for Brass Ensemble new music for evening shadows darkenLiebestod (German for "Love Death") is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 Opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner. The music is actually an aria that Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body before she herself is consumed in death. The music is lush, with rich harmonies and undulating rhythms as the agony of death is also meshed with the passion of love. Randall Malmstrom has scored this 7 minute excerpt from the opera for an 11 part