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Updated: May 5, 2025
Contents: The Lord's Prayer in B A Son of Liszt A Chopin of the Gutter The Piper of Dreams An Emotional Acrobat Isolde's Mother The Rim of Finer Issues An Ibsen Girl Tannhäuser's Choice The Red-Headed Piano Player Brynhüd's Immolation The Quest of the Elusive An Involuntary Insurgent Hunding's Wife The Corridor of Time Avatar The Wegstaffes give a Musicale The Iron Virgin Dusk of the Gods Siegfried's Death Intermezzo A Spinner of Silence The Disenchanted Symphony Music the Conqueror.
The terrified Brangaene tries to calm her, and at the same time to learn what is the cause of her anger. She recalls Isolde's strange and cold behaviour on parting from her parents in Ireland, and on the voyage; why is she thus?
Beside the door of Isolde's apartment a torch is burning. The sound is heard of hunting-horns gradually retreating. Brangaene stands on the castle-steps, listening to these. Isolde, all in a happy agitation, hurries forth to ask if they still be audible. She herself cannot hear them any more. But to Brangaene's ear the sound is still distinct. Isolde listens again: No!
Brangaene's listless attitude as she gazes across the water, the young sailor's ditty to his Irish girl as he keeps watch on the mast, reflect the calmness of the sea as the ship glides before the westerly breeze, and contrast with the tempest raging in Isolde's breast.
Two ladies of Isolde's train, who envied and hated Dame Bragwaine, laid a plot for her destruction. She was sent into the forest to obtain herbs, and there was met by men sent by her enemies, who bound her hand and foot to a tree, where she remained for three days.
Then Brangaene delivers Isolde's message in the same peremptory words in which she has received it. Kurwenal suddenly starts up and, with or without permission, sends his answer to Isolde. Tristan, he says, is no servant of hers, for he is giving her the crown of Cornwall and the heritage of England. "Let her mark that, though it anger a thousand Mistress Isoldes."
The orchestral accompaniment during Isolde's speech has a very solemn character imparted to it by slow chords of the trombones, piano, with somewhat feverish semiquaver triplets on the strings, snatches of the love-motive and other motives being heard in the wood-wind; while in the pauses, runs on the violins mark Kurwenal's impatience.
The previous dialogue began with Isolde's rousing of Tristan with the words "Lausch' geliebter." Now he turns to her smiling and asks: "Soll ich lauschen?" and she replies: "Lass mich sterben." Her mind is now quite resolved. To another decisive question she replies: "Eternal be our night!"
Kurwenal starts from his trance of grief and rushes to look off. He breaks into curses, recognising Mark and Melot among the men just landed. His resolution is instantly taken. "Arms and stones! Help me! To the gate!" With the shepherd's help he is fastening and barricading the castle-gate, when Isolde's skipper hurries in with the cry: "Mark is behind me with men-of-arms and folk.
That is her behest, Isolde's!" Without giving Tristan time to hesitate, Kurwenal jumps up: "May I frame an answer?" "What would your answer be?" Tristan asks, for the moment at a loss.
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