Tristan und Isolde

Album by Richard Wagner & Jon Fredric West & Waltraud Meier & Bayerisches Staatsorchester & Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper & Zubin Mehta & Franz Konwitschny & Brian Large

Tristan und Isolde is an opera (music drama) by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1865. The score employs advanced chromaticism, prolonged dissonances and an expanded orchestral palette, marking a key development in late Romantic harmony and in Wagner's move towards continuous, through-composed musical-dramatic form.