Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll

Conductor: Sergiu Celibidache & Münchner Philharmoniker

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 "Siegfried Idyll" is a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra, composed by Richard Wagner (1813-1883) as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on Christmas morning, 25 December 1870, by a small ensemble on the stairs of their villa at Tribschen.
Wagner's opera "Siegfried", which was premiered in 1876, incorporates music from the Idyll. It was once thought that the Idyll borrowed musical ideas intended for the opera, but it is now known that the opposite is the case: Wagner adapted melodic material from an unfinished chamber piece in the Idyll and later incorporated it into the love scene between Siegfried and Brunhilde in the opera.

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[aradioactivedonut]

Thumbs up if you don't get stuck on reductio ad hitlerum

[ragmeankill]

Larry David FTW

[rsr789]

@BrynhildetheBrave Lets not go there... just enjoy the music.

[DontCloudMe]

Looks like John Wayne.

[pakijetli]

pretty good. pretty prettaaaay prettaaaaaaay pretty good.

[BrynhildetheBrave]

Wagner didn't dislike Jews, he just disliked Jewish culture. He was still one of the most brilliant musicians who ever lived

[pljaime]

@ragmeankill I really do love Larry David's involvement of the tune in that episode of Curb, where he refers to it, starts to have it played for his wife's birthday, gets yelled at by that crazy dude for liking Wagner ... it has to do with not getting stuck on reductio at hitlerum - he doesn't care about that at all because it's such a beautiful tune, and the scene at the end of that episode, which I won't spoil, is just hilarious.

[AlexandruIoan1979]

The conductor, Sergiu Celibidache, just makes me proud to be Romanian...

[sionnachy]

How BEAUTIFUL. Thanks for posting that.

[jaimenote]

Beautiful! 

[MrDecibels82]

I love this peice, the fact he was antisemetic is netiher here or there. who cares about the artist's polotics or religeous beliefs? its art and therefore comes from emotion and feelings expressed by humanity and knows no descrimination. and plus its a little funny that he also hates jews and denies the holocaust. 6 million? really? look it to it more people

[bayreuth79]

It doesn't make any difference to me whether Richard Wagner was antisemeti- his music is sublime. Why should we reject the work because of the failings of the man? There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any actual antisemitism in the librettos of Wagner's music-dramas, therefore it doesn't make any difference. Besides, music itself cannot express the particular (including antisemitism); it can only express universals. I don't HEAR antisemitism in the music; quite the contrary.