Instrumentation

4 hn.2 tpt.2 trbn.tuba - perc(1): cymbals (optional)

Availability

Score 0-571-56635-9 (fp) and parts 0-571-56636-7 (fp) on sale, or as digital download

Programme Notes

Siegfried Interlude No 1 was commissioned by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for first performance at the launch of their 2000 Season.

It uses many of the themes from Wagner’s Siegfried (Acts 1 and 2), rearranging them in different ways, including an almost James-Bond-esque manner!

Reviews

‘Wit… was on display in Siegfried Interlude No. 1, which opened the performance. In it, Australian composer Matthew Hindson arranged a variety of Wagnerian themes for brass ensemble, replete with oompah tuba and a quote from Herbie Hancock’s boogaloo classic “Watermelon Man”. A better appetizer would be hard to imagine.‘
straight.com (Alexander Varty) 25 January 2007

‘Matthew Hindson's brassy Siegfried Interlude No. 1 raided the opera theatre for some themes from Wagner's Ring cycle, which Hindson arranged into something more fun-filled and swinging than you'd ever heard at the Wagner festival in Bayreuth.’
The Globe and Mail (Robert Everett-Green), 22 January 2007

Siegfried Interlude No. 1

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass

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