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Daniel Barenboim

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Tristan and Isolde, brimming with fresh charm from maestro Barenboim and the visionary Cherniakov, is here!The knight Tristan sets sail to welcome Isolde, the Irish princess who is to become the wife of his uncle, King Marke. However, Tristan had once defeated Isoldes fianc in a duel but was wounded in the process and had been nursed back to health by Isolde. Upon learning this truth aboard the ship on their return journey, the twotrapped in conflicting emotions of love and hateattempt to take their own lives by drinking poison. However, they instead drink an aphrodisiac that Isoldes maid, Brangne, had secretly substituted, and fall into a passionate, all-consuming love. Tristan is attacked by King Marke and his retainers after they discover the lovers tryst. Although he escapes from the kings castle, Tristan, mortally wounded, breathes his last in Isoldes armsConductor Daniel Barenboim cou