English: Wagner - Tristan und Isolde - Isolde's Liebestod - Panel by Stassen
Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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of touching sadness and inexpressible Then she sings this wondrous death song, so fulsweetness, and expires upon his body. Isoldes Liebestod (Isoldes Love-Death) By Johanna Gadski, (In German) 88058 By Victor Herberts Orchestra (Double-faced—See below) 55041By La Scala Orchestra (Double-faced—See below) 68210
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PANEL BY STASSE* ISOLDE S LIEBESTOD 12-inch, $3.0012-inch, 1.5012-inch, 1.25 Isolde (unconscious of all around her,turning her eyes with rising inspira-tion on Tristans body):Mild and softly he is smiling;How his eyelids sweetly open!See, oh comrades, see you notHow he beameth ever brighter—How he rises ever radiantSteeped in starlight, borne above?See you not how his heartWith lion zest, calmly happyBeats in his breast?From his lips in Heavenly rest,Sweetest breath he softly sends.Harken, friends!Hear and feel ye not?Is it I alone am hearingStrains so tender and endearing?Passion swelling, all things telling.Gently bounding, from him sounding,In me pushes, upward rushesTrumpet tone that round me gushes.Brighter growing, oer me flowing,Are these breezes airy pillows?Are they balmy beauteous billows?How they rise and gleam and glisten!Shall I breathe them? Shall I listen?Shall I sip them, dive within them?To my panting breathing win them?In the breezes around, in the har-mony sound,I
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