Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in Building a Library with Gillian Moore and Andrew McGregor
Gillian Moore chooses her favourite version of Wagner's orchestral piece Siegfried Idyl, and Joseph McHardy selects a crop of new releases of early music.
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Harpsichordist Joseph McHardy shares his pick of the latest early music releases.
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Building a Library
Wagner's Siegfried Idyll with Gillian Moore
"Music was sounding, and what music! After it had died away, R put into my hands the score of his 鈥淪ymphonic Birthday Greeting." So wrote Richard Wagner's wife Cosima after the first performance of the composer's Siegfried Idyll - written as a surprise birthday present for Cosima which she first heard as she awoke on Christmas morning 1870 while the specially assembled chamber orchestra was playing it on the stairs of the couple's villa. The intensely romantic work is full of personal significance for the Wagners, and much of the music was later incorporated into the third instalment of Wagner's operatic Ring cycle, Siegfried.
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