Le Vin Herbé | Classical review

St George's, BloomsburyThe now-cultish Swiss composer Frank Martin wrote his setting of the Tristan and Isolde legend between 1938 and 1941. In essence a chamber oratorio – though occasionally staged, especially in Germany – Le Vin Herbé inhabits a different world from Wagner's ­incomparably influential opera.Morally, it's more Brief Encounter than the Liebestod, and aesthetically the influence of Pelléas et Mélisande is palpable. The fact that Martin should write a med...

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