Rienzi hymns, processions and the musical clash of arms". Cosima Wagner recorded Wagner's comment in her diary for 20 June 1871: "Rienzi" is very repugnant to me, but they should at least recognize the fire in it; I was a music director and I wrote a grand opera; the fact that it was this same music director who gave them some hard nuts to crack – that's what should astonish them. Thus the work has remained outside today's Wagner canon, and was only performed at the Bayreuth Festival in 2013, staged by Matthias von Stegmann. Although the composer disclaimed it, it
Santiago de Espada Santiago de Espada Santiago de Espada is a concert overture by the Australian composer Malcolm Williamson. Written in 1956 when Williamson was barely 25, it was his first mature orchestral work. The overture was first heard in June 1957 when the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult included it in a private concert at St. Pancras Town Hall, London (an event which also featured the première of Williamson's Symphony No. 1 "Elevamini"). Despite this, it wasn't until a broadcast in February 1958 that the work had its first public airing. The overture was not performed in Australia until