Archipel's Siegfried Wagner Conducts Richard Wagner is an entry in its Desert Island Collection. Siegfried Wagner, of course, was Richard Wagner's son by Cosima Liszt Wagner, and it was he who took over much of the leadership at the Bayreuth Festival from 1906 through his death in 1930. This was not a distinction that the younger Wagner necessarily sought out, as he had originally studied to be an architect, and his own musical compositions are closer to the style of the composers of his own time -- Mahler, Richard Strauss, ...
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Archipel's Siegfried Wagner Conducts Richard Wagner is an entry in its Desert Island Collection. Siegfried Wagner, of course, was Richard Wagner's son by Cosima Liszt Wagner, and it was he who took over much of the leadership at the Bayreuth Festival from 1906 through his death in 1930. This was not a distinction that the younger Wagner necessarily sought out, as he had originally studied to be an architect, and his own musical compositions are closer to the style of the composers of his own time -- Mahler, Richard Strauss, Lehár -- than to that of his father. Ultimately though, the obligation to succeed his father at Bayreuth became an overriding one for Siegfried Wagner; his only recorded comment on the matter seems to have been "I willingly admit that things are not made very easy for me." This collection begins with an acoustical recording made of music from Die fliegende Holländer in early 1925 and ends with a 1927 recording of Huldigungsmarsch made with the London Symphony Orchestra. The latest...
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