Richard Wagner Siegfried Idyll

Composer: Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 13 February 1883) Orchestra: Münchner Philharmoniker Conductor: Sergiu Celibidache Year of recording: 1993 (Live in Philharmonie am Gasteig, München) Siegfried Idyll, symphonic poem for small orchestra in E major, WWV 103, written in 1870. Apart from the operas, Wagner composed a small number of pieces; this stems from his reluctance to conceive music which didn t belong to the sacredness of the drama, fundamental expression of his thought. The full title on the original manuscript of Wagner s Siegfried Idyll reads, TribschenIdyll, with FidiBirdsong and Orange Sunrise, presented as a symphonic birthday greeting to his Cosima by her Richard, The Siegfried in the title does not refer to the composer s opera of the same name, as is often supposed, but to his infant son, whose pet name was The orange sunrise refers to the colour of Cosima s