The epochal piano virtuoso Liszt made numerous transcriptions for his instrument of works by other composers – Wagner's Tristan und Isolde; a key nineteenth century work; naturally numbered amongst them. His congenial rendition of the famous closing scene (“Mild und leise; wie er lächelt”) for the piano is; incidentally; the source of the title that we are so familiar with today; “Isoldens Liebestod” (Isolde's Love Death) – Wagner himself only spoke of Isolde's “transfiguration.” Henle has now published Liszt's sophisticated – but not impossibly difficult – piano setting in the finest Urtext quality; including the original fingerings by the master of the piano. The text of this final scene can be found in an appendix within the edition.

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