Wagner: Overtures and Preludes, Siegfried Idyll Jane Eaglen, soprano; London Classical Players, Roger Norrington, conductor (EMI Classics). Weber: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2, Konzertstuck in F minor ...
Imagine the Barbican Hall as a bedroom. Imagine dozing on Christmas morning (also the day of your birthday), as Cosima Wagner did in 1869. Imagine waking, gently, to the sound of instrumentalists on ...
Usually associated with excessively sized orchestras, Wagner’s music is reimagined for brass ensemble before a performance of his Siegfried Idyll, a symphonic birthday greeting written for his wife ...
The Katara Opera House honoured two magnet-like opposite Classical Music masterminds from 19th Century; Mahler and Wagner. The show started with the poem symphony by Wagner - Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Starting to worry about a gift for your partner at Christmas? In 1869, Wagner composed his Siegfried Idyll as a ...
We close the hour with what could probably be called one of the best birthday gifts ever. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) wrote his "Siegfried Idyll" for his wife Cosima on her thirty-third birthday. We ...
REDLANDS — Friday night’s concert at the Redlands Bowl marked the halfway point in this year’s season of the Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival, according to my count, and the 2,139th event of the ...
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Siegfried Idyll: The Stunning Classical Piece That Originated On A Staircase
On the morning of December 25, 1870, the villa of Richard and Cosima Wagner in Tribschen, near Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, was ...
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