A Wagnerian Voyage

Duration: 25’05”
Premièred Saturday 25th December 2011 at 3:00pm on SBS TV Australia.
Repeated 3pm 27 May 2019.

SBS Radio & Television Youth Orchestra play the music of Richard Wagner in accompaniment to the landscapes that inspired him. Filmed, directed & edited by Adam Sébire in Switzerland and Germany, with additional material from the Orchestra’s 20th anniversary concert in Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 2008.

SBS Youth Orchestra play an excerpt from the Prelude to Act 1 from Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. This is part of a 25 minute programme first broadcast on SBS 3pm on 25 December 2011 called "A Wagnerian Voyage".

Music by Richard Wagner (1813-1883):

Lohengrin, Act III

Prelude

Tristan & Isolde, Act III

Liebestod

Tannhäuser, Act III

Lied an den Abendstern

(Soloist: Martin Cooke)

Romanze in E-flat for violin

(arr. A. Wilhelmj)

(Soloist: Jennifer Seo)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act I

Prelude

Performed in concert by

SBS Radio & Television Youth Orchestra