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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 ...

Young Norwegian Tabita Berglund delivered breakneck Beethoven as well as a Golijov tango and a poised Siegfried Idyll The Hallé – at Bridgewater Hall for only their fourth performance to live ...

So Das Rheingold he regards as the exposition, matched by Götterdämmerung, summing up similar material, including the Death of Siegfried and Brünnhilde’s Immolation scene. In between he regards Die ...

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 ...

Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores Wagner's Siegfried Idyll - a piece written as a birthday present for his wife. Featuring more musical gifts from J.S. Bach, Bartók and Billie Holiday. Show more Sara ...

Sixty-one metres beneath Bendigo a 13-piece Melbourne Opera Chamber Orchestra was warming up for a unique performance on Saturday afternoon.

Ivan Fischer brings his forensic skills, which have been so illuminating in Mahler and Stravinsky, to bear on Wagner's orchestral music, and the result is a revelatory contribution to the bicentenary ...

How Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, first performed as a birthday gift for his wife in 1870, still touches listeners today. From 2017. Show more Wagner's peaceful Siegfried Idyll was written to thank his ...