Wagner-Liszt: Liebestod from Tristan Und Isolde

[Camielpianist90]

I've heard him play this piece as an encore in Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Wonderful how he communicates these unique Wagnerian emotions with the audience.

I also recorded this piece. Listen to it if you can find the time.Thanks!(see my profile).

[cubanbach]

wow.....beyond words...

[paulostroff99]

Stunning.TY vaimusic for posting.

[paulostroff99]

Stunning.TY varimuic for posting this treasure of a performance.

[RowboCaup]

That many dreams within dreams is too unstable! 

[ferociousgumby]

At last, someone who plays this at the right tempo, not dragged out.

[ykmgt]

wonderful performance! thank you for uploading.

[Choen444]

@InebriatedAssClown

4) I doubt you have the mental capacity to listen to music like this. 

[Choen444]

@ InebriatedAssClown InebriatedAssClown Listening to this and at the same time reading your stupidity put into wors makes me so angry. 4 things

1) This is considered one of the best (if not the best) opera ever composed.

2) It took me months since I listened to opera to really start enjoying it

3) You don't know more that the thousand of people that enjoy this kind music because the do understand it and do not automatically think " Oh if it is classical music it is boring"

[jetzt0844]

BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!

[MsJamStudios]

My life goal is to learn this song... This was my favorite Wagner peice growing up, still is. Words can't describe the beauty of this... or music period.

[cassa11223344]

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[thujone0]

it is very difficult to play

[thujone0]

just amazing...

[o0FallingSnow0o]

It would be fucking mindblowing to make love to this song

[InebriatedAssClown]

@ThoughtsofaPerson Nigra!

[wagneristhebest]

The Orchestral version is far superior, but Liszt's amazing compositional skills show how versatile the piano is here at orchestration.

[MasterIsh91]

@InebriatedAssClown. This music is timeless and you're an idiot beyond all belief if you think this is boring.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

this is not complete.. -.-

[fledgehog]

love this performance. Be sure to check out Horowitz's as well. Incredibly sensitive and I believe it has a supernatural presence.

[PirateOfLoserville]

Absolutely beautiful piece of music.

There are two other pieces that comes to my mind I when I hear this with same intensity, marvelous harmonies and dramatic tone.

Rachmaninow: prelude in C sharp minor

Sinding: frühlingsrauschen

[SuperMike260]

GENIUS !!!! VERY GOOD WAGNER

[camerinik]

my god !a real butcher!

nobody noticed 2 pages of cut and various arrangements?

terrible climax ....it seems a worker with jackhammer!!!

maybe he considers himself better than liszt....

[SuperMike260]

@camerinik is not liszt is wagner music

[mutinyinheav3n]

@SuperMike260 This is Liszt's arrangement.

[schmitty135]

Not the best interpretation. My neighbor's kid plays this way better.

[AbramoMike]

This is my absolute favorite interpretation of this piece. It takes me to another place.

[AvisHolt]

To iPlayPiano: I don't play the piano but I agree with you on this rendition. This is one of my favorite pieces of music and he did NOT do it justice.

[caruuso]

Some odd harmonic changes at the end. He also makes a big cut.

[skimask777]

A master performance!! Rich in color and texture and well execute. It’s like waking up to a bright sunny day and to realized you’ve just had a love encounter in your dream.

[skimask777]

A master performance!! Rich in color and texture and well execute. It’s like waking up to a bright sunny day and to realize you’ve just had a love encounter in your dream. 

[skimask777]

A master performance!!

Rich in color and texture and well executed.

[leomulder]

WOW!

[iPlayPiiano]

I didn't like it. Sorry to say, but still.

Listen, if you know when to play something loudly or softly, and have a perfect technique, you can very well imitate emotion. BUT, that doesn't mean you play it WITH emotion.

This guy's technique is brilliant. But I don't FEEL this piece when he plays it. Especially at 1:07 onwards, and most of all: he just blew 3:29. C'mon, that's not emotion, but just hammering the piano.

I would gladly have a discussion with anyone should you disagree. :)

[zoranrosendahl]

@iPlayPiiano Nobody wants to discuss with you. Every interpretation is different and some you may like and some not. That's just your taste of classical music. I think he can show emotion to some people that listen. I like it though and respect your meaning!

[SalQrazy]

It took me quite a few listenings to understand this piece. Now that it's a part of me, I wonder how I ever misunderstood it.

[mnbzxc88]

did Liszt made more such transcriptions? I know he was a great supporter of Wagner's music and personality. I've read a few books :D but never hat time to search for the transcriptions.

[gerardbedecarter]

@mnbzxc88 Yes. There was Schirmer edition which contained a number of them.

[darbeel1]

so is liebestod a part from tristan or is it like a prelude, but transposed to piano???

[filopaa1990]

@darbeel1 it's the final aria of tristan und isolde by r. wagner.. this on piano was trascripted by listz.

[pagans68]

3:30 that piano sound is so intense..

thank you Mr Prats and Richard Wagner.

[MastersoftheOpera]

This was very beautifully played. I love that Liebestod!

[gaemp]

great music, great transcription, very good pianist!

[Kievest]

Great expressive power, delicacy, an

exquisite touch and luminous interpre-

tive brilliance...makes the piano sound

like a full orchestra! Thank you vaimusic

for posting and to paulostroff99 for

sharing!

[Webarton]

One of the best and most excellent pianists in the world today

[goblinonacloud]

The way the music builds upon the same thing over and over again takes my breath away. To tell the truth the Liebstodt is the only piece of music I truly love from this opera..By the time it finishes I am out of breath and my heart is pounding, just sitting listening to it. Whew!

[AbramoMike]

3:29 ... holy shit... an orgasm of excitement rushes through my body..

[Penzima]

does anyone else feel like they're dreaming when listening to this song?

[Tenorgeiger]

@Penzima It is not a song, you idiot.

[miiicklyn]

@Tenorgeiger it WAS a song, transposed for piano solo to be exact

[witness124]

@Penzima Dreaming...no. Drowning....yes.

It's quite nice drowning, though.

[AtheneNikephoros]

@witness124 If drowning were like this, I would stay underwater for hours.

[Frospin142857]

@Penzima We have to go deeper.

[Frospin142857]

@Penzima We have to go deeper.

[topperheartramada]

@Penzima i find myself wondering why i can never find a girl who can make me feel what i'm feeling while listening to this

[AbramoMike]

I'm looking for the sheet music for this specific transcription of this piece. Anyone can help please?

[noteman42]

Dover Publications has reprinted (in two volumes) a large number--maybe all--of Liszt's operatic transcriptions. This Liebestod is in one of them, though I don't remember which.

[sammymagoo]

It's at 4:09 that i get goosbumps, so beautifully played.

[danlindros20]

Me too!

[theschumanity]

never heard of Prats before this but this is one of the best performances of this pieces I've ever heard. I actually think I like it better than the Barenboim.

[Lunenborg1]

Watched Prats playing this yesterday in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Absolutely wonderful and left me smiling all the way home. Go see this if you have the chance!

[demosj]

Wow, very passionate and competent performance. So far the only better performance I've heard is Horowitz's from the Last Recording.

[koolakalle]

Kinkel

[juliansarde]

sublime...

En el fluctuante torrente, en la resonancia armoniosa, en el infinito hálito del alma universal, en el gran Todo... perderse, sumergirse... sin conciencia... ¡supremo deleite!

seeeee!!!!

[bobbygnosis]

Funny - the only reason I'm even looking this up is because Nietzsche recommended it. It's pretty good so far, though. Too bad Nietzsche wasn't much of a beer man. A long day of work followed by a pint and this - this piece in particular - is quite nice.

Cheers.

[Luisurbina93]

And as a humble musician myself I think his artistry is unmatchable even if he misses notes here and there, and his sound quality and capablity is astonishing... saying the last page is horrid is really unfair and even though you have played the piece if you just remove even knowing the piece and the missed notes the overall gesture after a 2 and a half hour program is captivating. I would research more into Jorge Luis Prats and you will be surprised with his genius.

[Luisurbina93]

Kliao93, with all due respect, Jorge Luis Prats is a great master of his art and it just so happens that this piece is probably one of hundreds he has in his encore repertoire. This is the 6th encore he performed after a massive concert program of a Bach-liszt organ transcription of a prelude and fugue, 24 scriabin preludes, 10 cuban dances, Ravel's gaspard de la nuit and Ravel's one piano arrangement of la valse...after a program like that, "missing notes" is meaningless and he deserves respect

[Quetzalcoatl09]

It lloks that he played this piece while ago,and can remember aome partes of this piece,he should check "alkaliszt" version......

[kliao93]

my god... a shame. not even comparable to renditions such as Horowitz' and Brendel's. I don't noe if he's a "professional pianist" but listen to the harp-like passage going down from about 4:05...lovely missed notes. maybe im only noticing it because i have played and practicedthis piece with all my heart and won first prize at a festival with it but he does it no good whatsoever. the beginning mood is not established at all... with him silencing the f flat octave...and the last page is horrid.

[arthannah]

good

but skipping the 4th page??

[PureCore]

=) =) =)

[kasyapa]

that is a *big* and unique sound. thank you!