Wagner (1813-1883) - Overtures, Siegfried Idyll: Markl / Mdr So - Import CD

Credits:

Paris Opera Orch

Description:

Wagner had a profound influence on 19th century German culture and wrote music whose popularity has not diminished at all to this day. From the time he was a boy, he was gifted in literature and music. However, he did not start out writing grand operas; he wrote piano music as a teenager and eventually honed his own skills by composing several overtures in the style of Beethoven and Weber, such as the one heard here. It is said that he was aiming to become a symphony composer at this time, but his main focus was on dramatic music, and in 1834 he composed "Love Prohibited" for the theater company Minna was in love with, followed by "Rienzi" and "The Wandering Dutchman," and then he began to write full-fledged operas. This album includes several overtures (Verdi-esque, but with a touch of Wagnerianism in places), which were studies from his teenage years, and "Siegfried Pastorale," which Wagner prepared as a birthday present for his wife Cosima in 1870, when he was in the prime of his life. The music is full of the breath of the great composer's youth. Naxos Japan

Tracklisting:

1.Overture
2.Overture
3.Columbus Overture for orchestra in E flat major, WWV 37a
4.Konig Enzio, overture for orchestra in E minor, WWV 24a
5.Concert Overture No. 2, for orchestra in C major, WWV 27
6.Concert Overture No. 1, for orchestra in D minor, WWV 20
7.Siegfried Idyll, for small orchestra in E major, WWV 103