Richard Wagner (1813-1883) conducted by his son Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930). Photo: Cosima Liszt Wagner, Siegfried, and Richard Wagner.
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The Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103, by Richard Wagner is a Symphonic Poem for Chamber Orchestra. Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on Christmas morning, 25 December 1870. Cosima awoke to its opening melody. The original title was Triebschen Idyll with Fidi's birdsong and the orange sunrise, as symphonic birthday greeting. Presented to his Cosima by her Richard. "Fidi" was the family's nickname for their son Siegfried. Wagner's opera Siegfried, which was premiered in 1876, incorporates music from the Idyll. Wagner adapted the material from an unfinished chamber piece into the Idyll before giving the theme to Brunhilde in the opera's final scene. The work also uses a German lullaby, "Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf (de)", played by solo oboe.
This collection have an acoustical recording made of music from Die fliegende Holländer in early 1925 and ends with a 1927 recording of Huldigungsmarsch made with the London Symphony Orchestra. The latest recordings chronologically appear to be parts of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung recorded from radio transcriptions in 1929, which, if so, would make them the earliest radio recordings known from Europe, but the notes are not clear on the matter.
Recordings 1925:
00:00 I. Siegfried - Idyll, for Small Orchestra in E major, WWV 103
London Symphony Orchestra, IV.1927
II. Tristan und Isolde, Opera, WWV 90 |
16:03 Vorspiel (Prelude to Act I)
25:44 Liebestod (Love Death Act III)
III. Lohengrin, Opera, WWV 75 |
31:17 Vorspiel (Prelude to Act I)
IV. Tannhäuser, Opera, WWV 70 |
39:34 Einzug der Gäste auf der Wartburg (Entry of the Guests)
V. Parsifal, Opera, WWV 111 |
43:33 Blumenmädchenszene (Flower Maiden Scene). "Hier! Hier war das Tosen"
54:07 Vorspiel Akt III (Prelude to Act III)
1:00:00 Karfreitagszauber (Good Friday Spell)
1:11:00 Karfreitagszauber (Good Friday Spell). "So ward es uns verhießen - Wie dünkt mich doch"
VI. Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Opera, WWV 63
1:21:37 Ouvertüre (Overture)
1:32:18 Einleitung Akt II (Introduction Act II)
Der Ring des Nibelungen | The Ring of the Nibelung tetralogy:
VII. Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold), Opera, WWV 86a |
1:36:13 Einzug der Götter in Walhall (Entry of the Gods into Valhalla)
VIII. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Opera, WWV 86b |
1:43:00 Walkürenritt (Ride of the Walkyries)
1:48:45 Wotans Abschied und Feuerzauber (Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music)
IX. Siegfried, Opera, WWV 86c |
2:04:37 Verwandlungsmusik Akt 3 (Transformation Music Act 3)
X. Die Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), Opera, WWV 86d
2:08:09 Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Siegfried's Rhine Journey)
2:14:50 XI. Huldigungsmarsch, for Military Band in E flat major, WWV 97
Siegfried Wagner took over much of the leadership at the Bayreuth Festival from 1906 through his death in 1930. This was not a distinction that the younger Wagner necessarily sought out, as he had originally studied to be an architect, and his own musical compositions are closer to the style of the composers of his own time - Mahler, Richard Strauss, Lehár - than to that of his father. Ultimately though, the obligation to succeed his father at Bayreuth became an overriding one for Siegfried Wagner; his only recorded comment on the matter seems to have been "I willingly admit that things are not made very easy for me."
As an interpreter of his father's music, Siegfried Wagner is not reverential in the least; his recordings of Wagner's music have more independence of mind than any others done prior to Pierre Boulez. He takes a generally light touch; filtering Richard Wagner through his interest in operetta and in the more coolly distanced aura of post-Romanticism. As a conductor, Siegfried Wagner is most interesting heard leading his own work rather than that of his father. So, if you are going to a desert island, you should not feel guilty to make room for something other than Siegfried Wagner Conducts Richard Wagner.
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