Richard Wagner - Elegy

Wagner wrote this most beautiful work in 1858 while working on Tristan and Isolde. You can hear these heartbreaking, agonizing harmonies that are reminiscent of the prelude to “Tristan“. At the beginning of the work, Wagner says “Schmachtend“, which translates as “languid“. This painful longing permeates the entire work with incredible force. Wagner masterfully manages to place on two lines of his music both tragedy mixed with inner pain and complete tranquility in the last chords.