Angius Marco

Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Marco Angius & Angius Marco – Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder, Siegfried Idyll, Träume; Sciarrino: Languire a Palermo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:36 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Richard Wagner began composing his Wesendonck Lieder during a stay in Zurich between November and December 1857. Originally conceived for female voice and piano alone, the five songs were later orchestrated, first by the Austrian conductor and composer Felix Mottl in 1893, and then later in 1976 by the German composer Hans Werner Henze, in a chamber setting. In fact Wagner had already orchestrated a version of “Tr”aume” to be performed by chamber orchestra (with violin playing the voice part) on the occasion of his wife Minna’s birthday in 1857. Later, in 1870, for his second wife Cosima’s 33rd birthday, he enacted a similar gesture. Mixing new motifs with themes from his Ring cycle, he composed the Siegfried Idyll and had it performed by a small orchestra as a birthday surprise.

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