Tag: Liebestod

  • PROGRAM NOTES: BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV

    PROGRAM NOTES: BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV

    Richard Wagner Isolde’s Liebestod arr. Franz Liszt The 19th century in Europe was an age in which psychological states went mainstream in the arts, becoming a particularly powerful stimulus for musical expression. A new genre, the nocturne, for example, captured that eerie feeling of being alone with one’s lyrical thoughts at a still point in…