Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" in historically informed performance practice

Proud to present the first video documentation of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" on original instruments on Youtube: With this performance in historically informed practice, the Richard-Wagner-Akademie Dresden realized its first chamber music project in April 2025. For this occasion, cellist ‪@JanVoglerCello‬ invited an international ensemble of outstanding chamber musicians and soloists to Saxony. Together, they explored works by Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in historically informed interpretations, presenting them on a tour through some of Saxony’s most beautiful music venues, set in dialogue with Pavel Haas’ Study for String Orchestra.

A project of the Richard-Wagner-Akademie Dresden of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele.

Recorded in April 2025 at the Richard-Wagner-Stätten Graupa, the oldest museum-used residence of Richard Wagner. A permanent exhibition documents Wagner's childhood, school years and education in Saxony as well as his time at the Dresden Court Opera. The Richard-Wagner-Stätten Graupa regularly host musical events.
Stay up to date and find out about planned events here. https://www.wagnerstaetten.de/veranst...

Funded by the Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism. This institution is co-financed with tax funds on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament.

Performance Practice Consultant and Musicologist:
Prof. Dr. Clive Brown, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Ensemble:
STELLA CHEN (VIOLIN)
NATHAN MELTZER (VIOLIN)
SINDY MOHAMED (VIOLA)
JAN VOGLER (CELLO)
ANTONIA HADULLA (DOUBLE BASS)
MICHAEL SCHMIDT-CASDORFF (FLUTE)
EMMA BLACK (OBOE)
ROBERT OBERAIGNER (CLARINET I)
SYLVESTER PERSCHLER (CLARINET II)
GIORGIO MANDOLESI (BASSOON)
ZOLTAN MÁCSAI (HORN I)
JAN HARSHAGEN (HORN II)
WOLFGANG GAISBÖCK (TRUMPET)