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Special offer. Wagner: The Rhinegold

Norman Bailey (Wotan), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Alberich), Emile Belcourt (Loge), Katherine Pring (Fricka), Robert Lloyd (Fasolt), Clifford Grant (Fafner), Gregory Dempsey (Mime), Lois McDonnall (Freia), Anne Collins (Erda); English National Opera, Reginald Goodall

Wagner: The Rhinegold
In Rhinegold the main honours are carried off by Emile Belcourt's plausible, witty and articulate Loge, Hammond-Stroud's imposing, strongly sung Alberich, Robert Lloyd's sympathetic Fasolt and...

Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

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Special offer. Wagner: The Rhinegold

Norman Bailey (Wotan), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Alberich), Emile Belcourt (Loge), Katherine Pring (Fricka), Robert Lloyd (Fasolt), Clifford Grant (Fafner), Gregory Dempsey (Mime), Lois McDonnall (Freia), Anne Collins (Erda); English National Opera, Reginald Goodall

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In Rhinegold the main honours are carried off by Emile Belcourt's plausible, witty and articulate Loge, Hammond-Stroud's imposing, strongly sung Alberich, Robert Lloyd's sympathetic Fasolt and...

Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

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Contents and tracklist

Wagner: Das Rheingold (Sung in English)
Work length2:54:08
Scene 1: Orchestral prelude
Track length5:01
Scene 1: Weia! Waga! Wandering waters (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length1:33
Scene 1: He, he! You nixies! (Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length1:40
Scene 1: Slimy, slippery, slithery smoothness! (Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length9:57
Scene 1: Look, sisters! The sunlight is greeting the gold (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length2:41
Scene 1: What's that, you nixies … ? (Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length5:01
Scene 1: The world's wealth can be mine … ? (Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length1:01
Scene 1: Still not afraid? (Alberich, Flosshilde, Wellgunde, Woglinde) - Orchestral interlude
Track length4:39
Scene 2: Wotan, my lord! Awaken! (Fricka, Wotan)
Track length6:12
Scene 2: For I wished you faithful and true (Fricka, Wotan)
Track length2:59
Scene 2: Then shelter her now (Fricka, Freia, Wotan)
Track length2:24
Scene 2: Soft sleep closed your eyes (Fasolt, Wotan, Fafner)
Track length3:19
Scene 2: God of light, light of spirit! (Fasolt, Wotan, Fafner, Freia)
Track length5:09
Scene 2: To me, Freia! Back from her, giant! (Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt, Wotan)
Track length1:16
Scene 2: This bond is graved on my spear's strong shaft (Wotan, Freai, Fricka)
Track length1:14
Scene 2: What? How am I concerned in a contract? (Loge, Wotan, Fricka, Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt)
Track length4:15
Scene 2: Never one word of praise or thanks! (Loge)
Track length2:52
Scene 2: But one I found then (Loge)
Track length2:02
Scene 2: So I promised I'd tell you the story (Loge, Wotan, Fasolt, Fafner)
Track length1:05
Scene 2: A toy, while it was in the waters (Loge, Wotan, Fricka)
Track length2:00
Scene 2: And I should possess it! (Wotan, Loge, Donner, Froh, Fricka, Fafner)
Track length4:38
Scene 2: Hear, Wotan, I'll speak my last word! (Fafner, Wotan, Fasolt, Freia, Froh, Donner)
Track length2:28
Scene 2: Over rock and stone they stride (Loge, Fricka, Donner, Froh)
Track length3:06
Scene 2: I see now! Hear what is wrong! (Loge, Fricka)
Track length3:13
Scene 2: Come, Loge, descend with me! (Wotan, Loge, Donner, Froh, Fricka) - Orchestral interlude
Track length5:11
Scene 3: Hehe! Hehe! Come here! Come here! (Alberich, Mime)
Track length0:56
Scene 3: Ha, you rogue! (Alberich, Mime)
Track length2:24
Scene 3: Nibelheim here (Loge, Mime, Wotan)
Track length1:45
Scene 3: What help for me? (Mime, Loge, Wotan)
Track length5:05
Scene 3: Better take care! Alberich's near (Mime, Wotan, Alberich)
Track length2:56
Scene 3: What brought you here? (Alberich, Wotan, Loge)
Track length3:32
Scene 3: In the clouds, you great ones (Alberich, Wotan, Loge)
Track length3:23
Scene 3: All must stand in amazement (Loge, Alberich)
Track length4:57
Scene 3: Ohe! Ohe! Terrible dragon (Loge, Wotan, Alberich)
Track length3:34
Scene 3: Now swiftly up! (Loge) - Orchestral interlude
Track length4:45
Scene 4: There, Alberich, sit on your throne! (Loge, Alberich, Wotan)
Track length2:52
Scene 4: And now the Niblungs will come to my call (Alberich, Wotan)
Track length3:12
Scene 4: The gold lies there; now let me go (Alberich, Loge, Wotan)
Track length6:37
Scene 4: Am I now free? (Alberich, Loge, Wotan), "Alberich's curse"
Track length4:27
Scene 4: Fasolt and Fafner come this way (Loge, Froh, Donner, Fricka)
Track length3:08
Scene 4: Wait! Don't touch her yet! (Fasolt, Wotan, Fafner, Loge, Froh)
Track length3:12
Scene 4: Far too loose you're piling the gold (Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Fricka, Donner)
Track length2:43
Scene 4: Freia, the fair one, see I no more (Fasolt, Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Freia, Fricka, Froh, Donner)
Track length3:06
Scene 4: Yield it, Wotan, yield it! (Erda, Wotan, Fricka, Froh), "Erda's warning"
Track length5:44
Scene 4: Hear, you giants! (Donner, Freia, Wotan)
Track length2:13
Scene 4: Stop, you greedy one! (Fasolt, Fafner, Loge, Wotan)
Track length2:24
Scene 4: Your luck, Wotan, what could surpass it (Loge, Wotan, Fricka)
Track length2:25
Scene 4: Sweltering mists hang in the air … Heda! Heda! Hedo! (Donner)
Track length2:46
Scene 4: The bridge leads you homeward (Froh)
Track length1:52
Scene 4: Evening rays flood the sky with splendour (Wotan, Fricka, Loge)
Track length4:21
Scene 4: Rhinegold! Rhinegold! (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Wotan, Loge), "Entry of the Gods into Valahlla" - Orchestral postlude
Track length4:53

Awards and reviews

2010

In Rhinegold the main honours are carried off by Emile Belcourt's plausible, witty and articulate Loge, Hammond-Stroud's imposing, strongly sung Alberich, Robert Lloyd's sympathetic Fasolt and Bailey's everauthoritative Wotan. With a pleasing trio of Rhinemaidens headed by Masterson's gleaming Woglinde, Clifford Grant's gloomy, louring Fafner and Anne Collins's deep-throated Erda, the strength of the ENO roster at the time is there for all to hear.

2010 edition

Hammond-Stroud's powerful representation of Alberich culminates in a superb account of the curse. The spectacular orchestral effects (with the horns sounding glorious) are vividly caught by the engineers and impressively transferred to CD.
2 out of 4 stars/3 out of 4 stars
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