Wagner Flying Dutchman Overture

Haydn Symphony 85 La Reine

Wagner Götterdämmerung
Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Siegfried’s Funeral, Immolation Scene
    Soloist Zoe South

A stormy sea-voyage from Riga to London inspired Wagner’s glorious Flying Dutchman Overture. Haydn’s elegant Symphony 85 ‘La Reine’ – Marie Antoinette’s favourite – intervenes before excerpts from his immortal Götterdämmerung where, as Wagner wrote, ‘imagination creates reality.’