Petra Lang is much in demand on both the operatic stage and the concert hall. She regularly sings the great Wagner mezzo-soprano roles (Fricka, Waltraute, Brangäne, Kundry, Venus), Judit in Bluebeard and is also at home in Verdi. She is also a gifted lieder singer and a supreme exponent of Mahler’s song cycles. The Siegfried Idyll has to be one of the strangest ever Christmas presents. The recipient was Cosima Wagner who on her birthday on December 25th, 1870, received it as a dawn serenade fro...m her husband. Originally written for 13 instruments, in 1878 he published the work in a symphonic version and this is what we shall here today. In 1852, Richard Wagner met the Zurich merchant and also patron of the arts, Otto Wesendonk. The composer fell in love with his young wife Mathilde. His song cycle setting five of her poems was written in 1857–1858. Originally with piano accompaniment, Wagner orchestrated one of them, and the remaining four were arranged for large orchestra by his Bayreuth colleague Felix Mottl. “Burlesques in Four Scenes” is how Igor Stravinsky described his ballet written for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe. Petrushka was premièred in Paris in 1911. The ballet tells the tale of a tragic figure from the Russian puppet theatre, taking us from the Petersburg fair through to his love for a beautiful ballerina, his battle with the evil Moor for her love, and finally his death. The score is a masterpiece of orchestration and one of the most popular Stravinsky pieces in the repertoire. Stravinsky revised the score in America in 1947 and this is the version we shall hear this evening.
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