Nash Ensemble; Dame Felicity Lott soprano; Paul Watkins conductor

Performers

Nash Ensemble

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Dame Felicity Lott

soprano

Paul Watkins

conductor

Programme

Wagner

Siegfried Idyll (original version)

Mozart

String Quintet in C K515

Strauss

• Sextet from Capriccio
• Moonlight Music and closing scene from Capriccio (arr. D Matthews)

About this concert

Mozart’s expansive C major String Quintet here separates music by two other great opera composers. Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll began life as an intimate birthday greeting to his wife, incorporating themes from the opera Siegfried.

The Nash Ensemble’s chosen excerpts from Capriccio, Richard Strauss’s radiant farewell composition for the operatic stage, include the moving final scene, with Dame Felicity Lott in one of her classic roles as the Countess.

This concert is part of the Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall's acclaimed chamber ensemble in residence's Echoes of Romanticism series.