Episode 70: 18070 Wagner: Siegfried

Episode 70: 18070 Wagner: Siegfried

The libretto arose from Wagner's gradual reconception of the project he had initiated with his libretto Siegfrieds Tod (Siegfried's Death) which was eventually to be incarnated as Götterdämmerung, the final section of the Ring cycle. Having grappled with his text for Siegfrieds Tod, and indeed having undertaken some musical sketches for it during 1851, he realized that it would need a 'preface'. At this point, he conceived that the prefatory opera, Der junge Siegfried, could act as a comic foil to the tragedy of Siegfrieds Tod. Preliminary musical sketches for Der junge Siegfried in 1851 were however quickly abandoned, although Wagner had written to his friend Theodor Uhlig that "the musical phrases are making themselves for these stanzas and periods, without my even having to take pains for them. It's all growing out of the ground as if it were wild." Shortly afterward he wrote to Uhlig that he was now planning to tell the Siegfried story in the form of "three dramas, plus a prologue in three acts"—a clear prefiguring of the Ring cycle. Purchase the music (without talk) at:Wagner: Siegfried (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

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Episode 220: 18220 Nightscapes

Episode 220: 18220 Nightscapes

Night falls in diverse ways in Magdalena Hoffmann's debut album. Nightscapes sees the German harpist dive deep into the intimate, mysterious, magical world of night music, as well as exploring the the...

1 Maalis 20221h 21min

Episode 213: 18213 24 Preludes for Solo Banjo

Episode 213: 18213 24 Preludes for Solo Banjo

Hailed as “one of a kind, a banjoist who specializes in classical music and regularly knocks socks off left and right doing so,” John Bullard has released a new recording, 24 Preludes for Solo Banjo, ...

28 Helmi 202232min

Episode 96: 18196 Meyerbeer - The African Woman or Vasco de Gama

Episode 96: 18196 Meyerbeer - The African Woman or Vasco de Gama

L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, usi...

27 Helmi 20224h 27min

Episode 218: 18219 City Lights

Episode 218: 18219 City Lights

Lisa Batiashvili’s new album, released on May 29, 2020, takes the listener across the world with eleven carefully chosen pieces that represent the most important cities in her life, as well as a suite...

26 Helmi 20221h 11min

Episode 202: 18202 Eden

Episode 202: 18202 Eden

From prison reform, the plight of refugees, the need for music education for all, to the industry-defining In War and Peace, opera superstar Joyce DiDonato has long been an artist who has dedicated he...

25 Helmi 20221h 15min

Episode 218: 18218 Bach - The Art of Life

Episode 218: 18218 Bach - The Art of Life

Pianist Daniil Trifonov is known for performances of 19th and 20th-century virtuoso repertory and hardly at all for Bach. Thus one might expect from his album Bach: The Art of Life a certain old-schoo...

24 Helmi 20222h 24min

Episode 214: 18214 Vestige

Episode 214: 18214 Vestige

Vestige, an album featuring premiere recordings of new pieces by five composers, performed by the contemporary chamber ensemble Wild Rumpus (now Ninth Planet). Five years in the making, Vestige is an ...

23 Helmi 20221h 10min

Episode 205: 18205 Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still

Episode 205: 18205 Herrmann - The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still stands as one of the earliest and greatest examples of film exploring the mystery and fear of alien contact, using it as an allegory for our mistrust of one another. With...

22 Helmi 202251min

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