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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

Das Rheingold

Albert Dohmen (Wotan), Andrew Shore (Alberich), Arnold Bezuyen (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Michelle Breedt (Fricka), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Christa Mayer (Erda), Edith Haller (Freia), Ralf Lukas (Donner), Clemens Bieber (Froh),...

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

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This is a big performance, often expansively paced. Great set-pieces like the Walküre love duet and the Rhine Journey have a fine soaring grandeur, even if some - the desperate Siegfried Act...

BBC Music Magazine, February 20105 out of 5 stars

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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

Das Rheingold

Albert Dohmen (Wotan), Andrew Shore (Alberich), Arnold Bezuyen (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Michelle Breedt (Fricka), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Christa Mayer (Erda), Edith Haller (Freia), Ralf Lukas (Donner), Clemens Bieber (Froh),...

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This is a big performance, often expansively paced. Great set-pieces like the Walküre love duet and the Rhine Journey have a fine soaring grandeur, even if some - the desperate Siegfried Act...

BBC Music Magazine, February 20105 out of 5 stars

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This is a budget priced re-release of Thielemann’s ‘Ring’ originally released in 2009 with a booklet containing full track listings and cast.

Wagner's epic four-opera cycle is a work of extraordinary scale - a full performance takes place over four nights with a total playing time of approximately 15 hours. Based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas, it is a work that follows the struggles of gods, heroes, mythical creatures, and the eponymous magical Ring that grants dominion over the entire world. The music is richly textured, and grows in complexity as the cycle proceeds - Wagner wrote for an orchestra of gargantuan proportions, including a greatly enlarged brass section with new instruments invented especially for the work. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus was constructed for this work to be performed in, with a specially designed stage that allows singers voices to blend with the huge orchestra without straining - essential for such long performances.

‘Whatever one's take on the production, Mr. Thielemann drew a probing, radiant and exhilarating musical performance from this orchestra of dedicated instrumentalists’ New York Times

‘ … there is no doubt that this year's Ring at Bayreuth belongs to… Thielemann…[who] creates a musical experience epic in its scale and inexorable in its apocalyptic, shattering power.’ The Guardian

Recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival in 2008, this production stars a host of international stars including Michelle Breedt, Albert Dohmen, Stephen Gould, Hans-Peter Konig, Linda Watson & Eva-Maria Westbroek. Christian Thielemann, one of the most sought-after conductors in the world, takes the baton with the Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra. This 14-disc CD box set marks the first ever Opus Arte CD release, and the start of an exciting new direction for the company.

Artists

Das Rheingold

Albert Dohmen (Wotan), Andrew Shore (Alberich), Arnold Bezuyen (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Michelle Breedt (Fricka), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Christa Mayer (Erda), Edith Haller (Freia), Ralf Lukas (Donner), Clemens Bieber (Froh), Fionnuala McCarthy (Woglinde), Ulrike Helzel (Wellgunde), Simone Schröder (Flosshilde)

Die Walküre

Endrik Wottrich (Siegmund), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Linda Watson (Brünnhilde), Kwangchul Youn (Hunding), Sonja Mühleck (Gerhilde), Anna Gabler (Ortlinde), Edith Haller (Helmwige), Martina Dike (Waltraute), Wilke te Brummelstroete (Siegrune), Annette Küttenbaum (Grimgerde), Manuela Bress (Rossweise), Simone Schröder (Schwertleite)

Siegfried

Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Albert Dohmen (Wanderer), Robin Johannsen (Waldvogel)

Götterdämmerung

Hans-Peter König (Hagen), Ralf Lukas (Gunther), Edith Haller (Gutrune), Christa Mayer (Waltraute), Simone Schröder (First Norn), Martina Dike (Second Norn), Edith Haller (Third Norn)

Bayreuther Festspiele Chorus & Bayreuther Festspiele Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor) & Tankred Dorst (director)

Contents and tracklist

Wagner: Das Rheingold
Work length2:31:00
Scene 1: Vorspiel
Track length4:45
Scene 1: Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle! (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Alberich)
Track length2:36
Scene 1: Garstig glatter glitschiger Glimmer! (Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length5:38
Scene 1: Wallala! Lalaleia! Schame dich, Albe! (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Alberich)
Track length2:42
Scene 1: Lugt, Schwestern! Die Weckerin lacht in den Grund (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Alberich)
Track length6:45
Scene 1: Der Welt Erbe gewann' ich zu eigen durch dich? (Alberich, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length1:59
Scene 1: Verwandlungsmusik
Track length3:02
Scene 2: Wotan, Gemahl, erwache! (Fricka, Wotan)
Track length3:23
Scene 2: Nur Wonne schafft dir, was mich erschreckt? (Fricka, Wotan)
Track length4:24
Scene 2: Hilf mir, Schwester! (Freia, Wotan, Fricka)
Track length1:41
Scene 2: Sanft schloss Schlaf dein Aug'! (Fasolt, Wotan)
Track length2:17
Scene 2: Was sagst du? Ha! Sinnst du Verrat? (Fasolt, Fafner, Wotan, Freia)
Track length4:57
Scene 2: Zu mir, Freia! Meide sie, Frecher! (Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt, Wotan, Freia, Fricka)
Track length1:30
Scene 2: Endlich Loge! Eiltest du so (Wotan, Loge, Fricka, Froh, Donner, Fafner, Fasolt)
Track length3:50
Scene 2: Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn! (Loge)
Track length2:25
Scene 2: Nur einen sah ich, der sagte der Liebe ab (Loge, Wotan, Fasolt, Fafner)
Track length3:31
Scene 2: Taugte wohl des goldnen Tandes gleissend Geschmeid (Fricka, Loge, Wotan, Donner, Froh)
Track length3:59
Scene 2: Glaub mir, mehr als Freia frommt das gleissende Gold (Fafner, Wotan, Fasolt, Freia, Froh, Donner, Loge)
Track length3:31
Scene 2: Was sinnt nun Wotan so wild? (Loge, Fricka, Donner, Froh)
Track length2:01
Scene 2: Jetzt fand ich's: hort, was euch fehlt! (Loge)
Track length2:08
Scene 2: Wotan, Gemahl, unsel'ger Mann (Fricka, Wotan, Loge, Donner, Froh)
Track length1:45
Scene 2: Verwandlungsmusik
Track length2:59
Scene 3: Hehe! Hehe! Hieher! Hieher! Tuckischer Zwerg! (Alberich, Mime)
Track length0:39
Scene 3: Schau, du Schelm! (Alberich, Mime)
Track length2:53
Scene 3: Nibelheim hier: durch bleiche Nebel (Loge, Mime, Wotan)
Track length0:43
Scene 3: Wer halfe mir? (Mime, Loge, Wotan)
Track length4:15
Scene 3: Nehmt euch in acht! Alberich naht (Mime, Wotan, Alberich)
Track length2:41
Scene 3: Was wollt ihr hier? (Alberich, Wotan, Loge)
Track length4:17
Scene 3: Auf wonnigen Hoh'n, in seligem Weben wiegt ihr (Alberich, Wotan, Loge)
Track length5:47
Scene 3: Riesen-Wurm winde sich ringelnd! (Alberich, Loge, Wotan)
Track length2:39
Scene 3: Luge du her! - Verwandlungsmusik (Alberich, Loge)
Track length4:57
Scene 4: Da, Vetter, sitze du fest! (Loge, Alberich, Wotan)
Track length2:33
Scene 4: Wohlan, die Nibelungen rief ich mir nah' (Alberich, Wotan)
Track length2:27
Scene 4: Gezahlt hab' ich; nun lasst mich zieh'n! (Alberich, Loge, Wotan)
Track length6:04
Scene 4: Bin ich nun frei (Alberich, Loge, Wotan)
Track length4:14
Scene 4: Fasolt und Fafner nahen von fern (Loge, Froh, Donner, Fricka, Fasolt, Wotan)
Track length4:52
Scene 4: Gepflanzt sind die Pfahle nach Pfandes Mass (Fafner, Wotan, Loge, Froh, Fricka, Donner)
Track length3:04
Scene 4: Freia, die Schone, schau' ich nicht mehr (Fasolt, Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Freia, Fricka, Froh, Donner)
Track length2:37
Scene 4: Weiche, Wotan! Weiche! (Erda, Wotan, Fricka, Froh)
Track length4:59
Scene 4: Hort, ihr Riesen! (Donner, Freia, Wotan)
Track length1:48
Scene 4: Halt, du Gieriger! Gonne mir auch was! (Fasolt, Fafner, Loge, Wotan, Fricka)
Track length4:28
Scene 4: Schwules Gedunst schwebt in der Luft (Donner)
Track length2:33
Scene 4: Zur Burg fuhrt die Brucke (Froh, Wotan, Fricka, Loge)
Track length5:36
Scene 4: Rheingold! Rheingold! (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Wotan, Loge)
Track length5:06
Wagner: Die Walküre
Work length3:45:07
Act I Scene 1: Prelude
Track length3:16
Act I Scene 1: Wes Herd dies auch sei, hier muss ich rasten (Siegmund, Sieglinde)
Track length3:30
Act I Scene 1: Kuhlende Labung gab mir der Quell (Siegmund, Sieglinde)
Track length3:06
Act I Scene 1: Des seimige Metes sussen Trank (Sieglinde, Seigmund)
Track length2:08
Act I Scene 1: Einen Unseligen labtest du (Siegmunde, Sieglinde)
Track length3:18
Act I Scene 2: Mud am Herd fand ich den Mann (Sieglinde, Hunding, Siegmund)
Track length4:45
Act I Scene 2: Friedmund darf ich nicht heissen (Siegmund)
Track length2:33
Act I Scene 2: Wunder und wilde Mare kundest du, kuhner Gast (Hunding, Sieglinde, Siegmund)
Track length1:18
Act I Scene 1: Aus dem Wald trieb es mich fort (Siegmund)
Track length1:55
Act I Scene 2: Die so leidig Los dir beschied (Hunding, Sieglinde, Siegmunde)
Track length3:53
Act I Scene 2: Ich weiss ein wildes Geschlecht (Hunding)
Track length1:38
Act I Scene 2: Fort aus dem Saal (Hunding)
Track length3:51
Act I Scene 3: Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater (Siegmund)
Track length2:16
Act I Scene 3: Walse! Wo ist dien Schwert? (Siegmund)
Track length3:33
Act I Scene 3: Schlafst du, Gast? (Sieglinde, Siegmund)
Track length6:39
Act I Scene 3: Wintersturme wichen dem Wonnemond (Siegmund)
Track length3:11
Act I Scene 3: Du bist der Lenz, nach dem ich verlangte (Sieglinde)
Track length1:56
Act I Scene 3: O susseste Wonne! Seligtes Weib! (Siegmund, Sieglinde)
Track length4:44
Act I Scene 3: Wehwalt heisst du furwahr? (Sieglinde, Siegmund)
Track length1:17
Act I Scene 3: Siegmund, den Walsung, seihst du, Weib! (Siegmund, Sieglinde)
Track length4:27
Act II Scene 1: Prelude
Track length2:09
Act II Scene 1: Nun zaume dein Ross, reisige Maid! (Wotan, Brunnhilde)
Track length2:46
Act II Scene 1: Der alte Sturm, die alte Muh'! (Wotan, Fricka)
Track length3:15
Act II Scene 1: Heut' hast du 's erlebt! (Wotan, Fricka)
Track length3:56
Act II Scene 1: Nichts lerntest du, wollt' ich dich lehren (Wotan, Fricka)
Track length5:13
Act II Scene 1: Was verlangst du? - Lass von dem Walsung! (Wotan, Fricka)
Track length2:01
Act II Scene 1: Heiaha! Hojotoho! - Dort kommt deine kuhne Maid (Brunnhilde, Fricka, Wotan)
Track length3:21
Act II Scene 2: Schlimm, furcht' ich, schloss der Streit (Brunnhilde, Wotan)
Track length3:15
Act II Scene 2: Lass' ich's verlauten, los' ich dann nicht (Wotan, Brunnhilde)
Track length6:17
Act II Scene 2: Ein andres ist's: achte es wohl (Wotan)
Track length4:21
Act II Scene 2: Doch der Walsung, Siegmund? (Brunnhilde, Wotan)
Track length4:48
Act II Scene 2: So nimm meinen Segen, Niblungen-Sohn! (Wotan, Brunnhilde)
Track length4:45
Act II Scene 2: So sah ich Siegvater nie (Brunnhilde)
Track length3:05
Act II Scene 3: Raste nun hier; gonne dir Ruh'! (Siegmund, Sieglinde)
Track length3:34
Act II Scene 3: Hinweg! Hinweg! Flieh die Entweihte! (Sieglinde, Siegmund)
Track length6:43
Act II Scene 4: Siegmund! Sieh auf mich! (Brunnhilde, Siegmund)
Track length7:54
Act II Scene 4: Hehr bist du, und heilig gewahr' ich (Siegmund, Brunnhilde)
Track length2:29
Act II Scene 4: Du sahest der Walkure sehrenden Blick (Brunnhilde, Siegmund)
Track length3:15
Act II Scene 4: So wenig achtest du ewige Wonne? (Brunnhilde, Siegmund)
Track length5:33
Act II Scene 5: Zauberfest bezahmt ein Schlaf (Siegmund)
Track length2:55
Act II Scene 5: Kehrte der Vater nur heim! (Sieglinde, Hunding, Siegmund)
Track length2:29
Act II Scene 5: Triff ihn, Siegmund! Traue dem Schwert! (Brunnhilde, Wotan)
Track length4:50
Act III Scene 1: Walkurenritt: Hojotoho! Heiaha! (Gerhilde, Helmwige, Waltraute, Schwertleite, Ortlinde, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Rossweisse)
Track length8:39
Act III Scene 1: Schutzt mich und helft in hochster Not! (Brunnhilde, Die Walkure)
Track length3:34
Act III Scene 1: Nicht sehre dich Sorge um mich (Sieglinde, Brunnhilde, Die Walkure)
Track length3:36
Act III Scene 1: Fort denn eile, nach Osten gewandt! (Brunnhilde, Sieglinde)
Track length2:10
Act III Scene 2: Steh! Brunnhild'! (Wotan, Die Walkure, Brunnhilde) - Wo ist Brunnhild', wo die Verbrecherin? (Wotan, Die Walkure)
Track length4:42
Act III Scene 2: Hier bin ich, Vater: gebiete die Strafe! (Brunnhilde, Wotan)
Track length2:49
Act III Scene 2: Du verstosset mich? (Brunnhilde, Woten, Die Walkure)
Track length6:30
Act III Scene 3: War es so schmahlich, was ich verbrach (Brunnhilde, Wotan)
Track length5:09
Act III Scene 3: Nicht weise bin ich (Brunnhilde, Wotan)
Track length3:54
Act III Scene 3: Der diese Liebe mir ins Herz gehaucht (Brunnhilde, Wotan)
Track length3:51
Act III Scene 3: Deinen leichten Sinnlass dich denn leiten (Wotan, Brunnhilde)
Track length3:57
Act III Scene 3: Du zeugtest ein edles Geschlecht (Brunnhilde, Wotan)
Track length5:32
Act III Scene 3: Leb' wohl, du kuhnes, herrliches Kind! (Wotan), "Wotan's Farewell"
Track length2:27
Act III Scene 3: Denn einer nur freie die Braut (Wotan)
Track length2:44
Act III Scene 3: Der Augen leuchtendes Paar (Wotan)
Track length6:43
Act III Scene 3: Loge, hor'! Lausche hieher! (Wotan)
Track length6:42
Wagner: Siegfried
Work length4:03:57
Act I: Vorspiel
Track length3:58
Act I Scene 1: Zwangvolle Plage! Muh' ohne Zweck! (Mime)
Track length3:04
Act I Scene 1: Hoiho! Hoiho! Hau' ein! Hau' ein! (Siegfried, Mime)
Track length2:46
Act I Scene 1: Nun tobst du wieder wie toll (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length1:28
Act I Scene 1: Als zullendes Kind zog ich dich auf (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length1:28
Act I Scene 1: Vieles lehrtest du, Mime, und manches lernt' ich von dir; (Siegfried)
Track length3:21
Act I Scene 1: Ei, Mime, bist du so witzig (Siegfried)
Track length1:34
Act I Scene 1: Wo hast du nun, Mime, dein minniges Weibchen (Siegfried, Mime)
Track length3:27
Act I Scene 1: Einst lag wimmernd ein Weib (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length4:42
Act I Scene 1: Das gab mir deine Mutter (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length2:00
Act I Scene 1: Halte! Wohin? He! Siegfried! (Mime)
Track length1:58
Act I Scene 2: Heil dir, weiser Schmied! (Wanderer, Mime)
Track length3:35
Act I Scene 2: Hier sitz' ich am Herd (Wanderer, Mime)
Track length1:48
Act I Scene 2: Du ruhrtest dich viel auf der Erde Rucken (Mime, Wanderer)
Track length2:01
Act I Scene 2: Viel, Wanderer, weisst du mir aus der Erde Nabelnest (Mime, Wanderer)
Track length2:20
Act I Scene 2: Viel, Wanderer, weisst du mir von der Erde rauhem Rucken (Mime, Wanderer)
Track length4:13
Act I Scene 2: Was zu wissen dir frommt, solltest du fragen (Wanderer, Mime)
Track length2:14
Act I Scene 2: Nun, ehrlicher Zwerg (Wanderer, Mime)
Track length2:05
Act I Scene 2: Wie doch genau das Geschlecht du mir nennst (Wanderer, Mime)
Track length1:56
Act I Scene 2: Der witzigste bist du unter den Weisen (Wanderer, Mime)
Track length3:29
Act I Scene 3: Verfluchtes Licht! (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length1:04
Act I Scene 3: Heda! Du Fauler! (Siegfried, Mime)
Track length3:32
Act I Scene 3: Fuhltest du nie im finstren Wald (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length5:02
Act I Scene 3: Des Vaters Stahl fugt sich wohl mir (Siegfried, Mime)
Track length3:19
Act I Scene 3: Notung! Notung! Neidliches Schwert! (Siegfried)
Track length3:21
Act I Scene 3: Er schmiedet das Schwert, und Fafner fallt er (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length3:22
Act I Scene 3: Was schafft der Tolpel dort mit dem Topf? (Siegfried, Mime)
Track length1:48
Act I Scene 3: Hoho! Hoho! Hohei! (Siegfried, Mime)
Track length3:16
Act I Scene 3: Den der Bruder schuf (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length3:56
Act II: Vorspiel
Track length5:35
Act II Scene 1: In Wald und Nacht vor Neidhohl' halt' ich Wacht (Alberich)
Track length2:07
Act II Scene 1: Wer naht dort schimmernd im Schatten? (Alberich, Wanderer)
Track length3:17
Act II Scene 1: Durch Vertrages Treue-Runen (Wanderer, Alberich)
Track length2:20
Act II Scene 1: Deinen Sinn kenn' ich wohl (Wanderer, Alberich)
Track length3:46
Act II Scene 1: Fafner! Erwache, Wurm! (Wanderer, Alberich)
Track length2:31
Act II Scene 1: Ich lieg' und besitz': lasst mich schlafen! (Fafner, Wanderer, Alberich)
Track length4:36
Act II Scene 2: Wir sind zur Stelle! Bleib hier stehn! (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length3:22
Act II Scene 2: He, du Alter! Ist das alles, was deine List mich lehren kann? (Siegfried, Mime)
Track length2:44
Act II Scene 2: Dass der mein Vater nicht ist (Siegfried)
Track length1:38
Act II Scene 2: Aber wie sah meine Mutter wohl aus? (Siegfried)
Track length3:11
Act II Scene 2: Du holdes Voglein! Dich hort' ich noch nie (Siegfried)
Track length2:19
Act II Scene 2: Er schweigt und lauscht (Siegfried)
Track length3:40
Act II Scene 2: Siegfrieds Hornruf (Siegfried's Horncall)
Track length2:33
Act II Scene 2: Haha! Da hatte mein Lied (Siegfried, Fafner)
Track length1:55
Act II Scene 2: Da lieg, neidischer Kerl! (Siegfried, Fafner)
Track length6:05
Act II Scene 2: Zur Kunde taugt kein Toter (Siegfried, Waldvogel)
Track length2:14
Act II Scene 3: Wohin schleichst du eilig und schlau (Alberich, Mime)
Track length2:37
Act II Scene 3: Was ihr mir nutzt, weiss ich nicht (Siegfried, Waldvogel, Mime)
Track length2:30
Act II Scene 3: Willkommen, Siegfried! (Mime, Siegfried)
Track length6:53
Act II Scene 3: Neides Zoll zahlt Notung (Siegfried)
Track length2:58
Act II Scene 3: Heiss ward mir von der harten Last! (Siegfried)
Track length3:36
Act II Scene 3: Nun sing'! Ich lausche dem Gesang (Siegfried, Forest Bird)
Track length5:33
Act III: Vorspiel
Track length2:19
Act III Scene 1: Wache, Wala! Wala! Erwach'! (Wanderer)
Track length1:59
Act III Scene 1: Stark ruft das Lied (Erda, Wanderer)
Track length2:43
Act III Scene 1: Mein Schlaf ist Traumen (Erda, Wanderer)
Track length4:15
Act III Scene 1: Wirr wird mir, seit ich erwacht (Erda, Wanderer)
Track length3:31
Act III Scene 1: Dir Unweisen ruf' ich's ins Ohr (Wanderer, Erda)
Track length5:01
Act III Scene 2: Mein Voglein schwebte mit fort! (Siegfried, Mime)
Track length3:04
Act III Scene 2: Was lachst du mich aus? (Siegfried, Wanderer)
Track length2:50
Act III Scene 2: Kenntest du mich, kuhner Spross (Wanderer, Siegfried)
Track length2:23
Act III Scene 2: Ein Feuermeer umflutet die Frau (Wanderer, Siegfried)
Track length2:17
Act III Scene 2: Zieh hin! Ich kann dich nicht halten! (Wanderer, Siegfried)
Track length1:23
Act III: Orchesterzwischenspiel (Entr'acte)
Track length3:12
Act III Scene 3: Einleitung
Track length2:29
Act III Scene 3: Selige Ode auf sonniger Hoh'! (Siegfried)
Track length3:52
Act III Scene 3: Das ist kein Mann! (Siegfried)
Track length2:45
Act III Scene 3: Im Schlafe liegt eine Frau (Siegfried)
Track length2:31
Act III Scene 3: Sie hort mich nicht (Siegfried)
Track length2:18
Act III Scene 3: Heil dir, Sonne! Heil dir, Licht! (Brunnhilde)
Track length3:49
Act III Scene 3: Durch das Feuer drang ich (Siegfried, Brunnhilde)
Track length2:01
Act III Scene 3: O Siegfried! Seliger Held! (Brunnhilde)
Track length1:58
Act III Scene 3: So starb nicht meine Mutter? (Siegfried, Brunnhilde)
Track length3:00
Act III Scene 3: Wie Wunder tont, was wonnig du singst (Siegfried)
Track length1:47
Act III Scene 3: Dort seh' ich Grane (Brunnhilde, Siegfried)
Track length3:36
Act III Scene 3: Kein Gott nahte mir je! (Brunnhilde, Siegfried)
Track length4:46
Act III Scene 3: Ewig war ich, ewig bin ich (Brunnhilde)
Track length4:44
Act III Scene 3: Dich lieb' ich: o liebtest mich du! (Siegfried, Brunnhilde)
Track length5:48
Act III Scene 3: Lachend muss ich dich lieben (Brunnhilde, Siegfried)
Track length3:29
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Work length4:34:50
Prologue: Einleitung
Track length2:03
Prologue: Welch Licht leuchtet dort? (The Norns)
Track length4:40
Prologue: Singe, Schwester … Treu beratner Vertrage Reunen (The Norns)
Track length2:08
Prologue: Singe, Schwester … Es ragt die Burg (The Norns)
Track length2:33
Prologue: Spinne, Schwester, und singe! (The Norns)
Track length6:13
Prologue: Interlude
Track length3:40
Prologue: Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde (Brunnhilde)
Track length2:17
Prologue: Mehr gabst du, Wunderfrau (Siegfried, Brunnhilde)
Track length3:09
Prologue: Lass'ich, Liebste, dich hier (Siegfried, Brunhilde)
Track length3:51
Prologue: Oh! heilige Gotter! (Brunnhilde, Siegfried)
Track length1:28
Prologue: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Siegfried's Rhine Journey)
Track length7:10
Act I Scene 1: Nun hor, Hagen, sage mir, Held (Gunther, Hagen, Gutrune)
Track length6:28
Act I Scene 1: Brachte Siegfried die Braut dir heim (Hagen, Gunther, Gutrune)
Track length3:29
Act I Scene 1: Jagt er auf Taten wonnig umher (Hagen, Gunther, Siegfried)
Track length3:22
Act I Scene 1: Heil! Siegfried, teurer Held! (Hagen, Siegfried, Gunther)
Track length2:37
Act I Scene 2: Begrusse froh, o Held, die Halle meines Vater (Gunther, Siegfried, Hagen)
Track length3:43
Act I Scene 2: Willkommen, Gast, in Gibichs Haus! (Gutrune, Siegfried, Gunther)
Track length3:10
Act I Scene 1: Gutrune - Sind's gute Runen (Gunther, Siegfried)
Track length5:06
Act I Scene 2: Bluhenden Lebens labendes Blut (Siegfried, Gunther)
Track length2:34
Act I Scene 2: Was nahmst du am Eide teil? (Siegfried, Hagen, Gunther, Gutrune)
Track length3:54
Act I Scene 2: Hier sitz' ich zur Wacht (Hagen)
Track length4:38
Act I Scene 2: Orchesterzwischenspiel
Track length5:27
Act I Scene 3: Altgewohntes Gerausch raunt meinem Ohr die Ferne (Brunnhilde, Waltraute)
Track length2:31
Act I Scene 2: Kommst du zu mir? (Brunnhilde, Waltraute)
Track length3:09
Act I Scene 3: Lockte dich, Schwester, mein Los? (Brunnhilde, Waltraute)
Track length2:30
Act I Scene 3: Hore mit Sinn (Waltraute)
Track length4:15
Act I Scene 3: So Sitzt er, sagt kein Wort (Waltraute)
Track length6:01
Act I Scene 3: Welch banger Traume Maren meldest du Traurige mir (Brunnhilde, Waltraute)
Track length6:32
Act I Scene 3: Blitzend Gewolk, von Wind getragen (Brunnhilde)
Track length4:09
Act I Scene 3: Brunhild! Ein Freier kam (Siegfried, Brunnhilde)
Track length2:42
Act I Scene 3: Wotan! Ergrimmeter, grausamer Gott! (Brunnhilde, Siegfried)
Track length3:56
Act I Scene 3: Jetzt bist du mein (Siegfried, Brunnhilde)
Track length4:28
Act II: Prelude
Track length2:51
Act II Scene 1: Schlafst du, Hagen, mein Sohn? (Alberich, Hagen)
Track length3:16
Act II Scene 1: Schlafst du, Hagen emin Sohn? - Der Ewigen Macht (Alberich, Hagen)
Track length4:52
Act II Scene 1: Orchesterzwischenspiel
Track length2:16
Act II Scene 2: Hoiho, Hagen! Muder Mann! (Siegfried, Hagen, Gutrune)
Track length5:01
Act II Scene 3: Hoiho! Ihr Gibichsmannen, mahet euch auf! (Hagen)
Track length1:38
Act II Scene 3: Was tost das Horn? (Chorus, Hagen)
Track length4:36
Act II Scene 3: Gross Gluck und Heil lacht nun dem Rhein (Chorus, Hagen)
Track length2:53
Act II Scene 4: Heil dir, Gunther! Heil dir und deiner Braut! (Chorus)
Track length1:34
Act II Scene 4: Brunnhild', die hehrste Frau, bring' ich euch her (Gunther, Chorus)
Track length1:44
Act II Scene 4: Gegrusst sei, teurer Held! (Gunther, Chorus)
Track length2:04
Act II Scene 4: Was muht Brunnhildens Blick? (Siegfried, Brunnhilde, Hagen, Chorus)
Track length1:54
Act II Scene 4: Einen Ring sah ich an deiner Hand (Brunnhilde, Siegfried, Gunther)
Track length1:21
Act II Scene 4: Ha! Dieser war es, der mir den Ring entriss (Brunnhilde, Siegfried, Hagen, Gutrune, Chorus)
Track length2:04
Act II Scene 4: Hei'ge Gotter, himmlische Lenker! (Brunnhilde, Gunther)
Track length2:07
Act II Scene 4: Wisset denn alle (Brunnhilde, Chorus, Siegfried, Hagen)
Track length3:44
Act II Scene 4: Helle Wehr! Heilige Waffe! (Siegfried, Brunnhilde, Chorus)
Track length3:09
Act II Scene 4: Gunther! Wehr deinem Weibe (Siegfried)
Track length4:27
Act II Scene 5: Welches Unholds List liegt hier verhohlen? (Brunnhilde)
Track length3:41
Act II Scene 5: Vertraue mir, betrogne Frau! (Hagen, Brunnhilde, Gunther)
Track length5:43
Act II Scene 5: Siegfried's Tod! (Hagen, Gunther, Brunnhilde)
Track length8:02
Act III: Prelude
Track length2:56
Act III Scene 1: Frau Sonne sendet lichte Strahlen (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length4:25
Act III Scene 1: Siegfried! Was schiltst du so in den Grund? (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Siegfried)
Track length3:17
Act III Scene 1: Was leid' ich doch das karge Lob? (Siegfried, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length3:15
Act III Scene 1: Ihr listigen Frauen, lasst das sein! (Siegfrieds, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)
Track length2:39
Act III Scene 1: Kommt, Schwestern! Schwindet dem Toren! (Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Siegfried)
Track length4:15
Act III Scene 2: Hoiho! - Hoiho! (Hagen, Siegfried, Chorus)
Track length4:01
Act III Scene 2: Trink, Gunther, trink! (Siegfried, Gunther, Hagen)
Track length2:31
Act III Scene 2: Mime hiess ein murrischer Zwerg (Siegfried, Hagen, Chorus)
Track length4:42
Act III Scene 2: In Lied zu dem Wipfel lauscht' ich hinauf (Siegfried, Hagen)
Track length3:28
Act III Scene 2: Was hor' ich! (Gunther, Hagen, Chorus)
Track length2:13
Act III Scene 2: Brunnhilde! Heilige Braut! (Siegfried)
Track length3:46
Act III Scene 2: Siegfrieds Trauermarsch (Siegfried's Funeral March)
Track length7:34
Act III Scene 3: War das sein Horn? (Gutrune, Hagen)
Track length3:35
Act III Scene 3: Gutrun'! Holde Schwester (Gunther, Guntrune, Hagen)
Track length3:33
Act III Scene 3: Schweigt eures Jammers jauchzenden Schwall! (Brunnhilde, Gutrune)
Track length4:05
Act III Scene 3: Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort (Brunnhilde)
Track length5:03
Act III Scene 3: O ihr, der Eide ewige Huter! (Brunnhilde)
Track length3:52
Act III Scene 3: Mein Erbe nun nehm' ich zu eigen (Brunnhilde)
Track length4:10
Act III Scene 3: Grane, mein Ross! Sei mir gegrusst! (Brunnhilde)
Track length2:23
Act III Scene 3: Zuruck vom Ring! (Hagen)
Track length6:17

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    January 2010
    Editor's Choice

February 2010

This is a big performance, often expansively paced. Great set-pieces like the Walküre love duet and the Rhine Journey have a fine soaring grandeur, even if some - the desperate Siegfried Act III prelude, the Funeral March - seem oddly detached and unemotional. ...Thielemann held me at least as well as my benchmark for modern Bayreuth, Barenboim - and with his energy and translucent textures, sometimes better. Linda Watson is a warm Brünnhilde... In Siegfried Stephen Gould delivers ringing, youthful tone powerfully enough to make strangulated top notes and short breath forgivable... As Wotan, Albert Dohmen's splendidly heroic delivery, commanding but tender, enhances his middleweight voice... Alberich is our superb character baritone Andrew Shore, unusually light-toned but fiercely incisive and nuanced.
5 out of 5 stars

January 2010

Over the years Thielemann's Ring, like all his Wagner, has been a continuous work in progress. Throughout he now revels in the lightness and impressionism of, say, Karajan or even Clemens Krauss, mixed with a rather infectious sense of humour that, as in the score, is present even in the supposed heroics of the Valkyries' gathering or the forging of Nothung. This is, I suppose, a "fast" Ring, but Thielemann's through-line for each scene convinces irrespective of the stopwatch.

4th December 2009

The live recordings capture the grandeur and theatrical flair of Thielemann's approach very vividly. He's especially good in the big set pieces in Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung.
3 out of 5 stars
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