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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1, etc.

Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), George London (Wotan), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Gré Brouwenstijn (Sieglinde), David Ward (Hunding), Rita Gorr (Fricka)

London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf

Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1, etc.

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…an exciting, eloquent, lyrical, an always vital account of the opera and draws splendid playing, of which the conductor must have been proud, and we should be, from the London Symphony Orchestra,...

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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1, etc.

Birgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), George London (Wotan), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Gré Brouwenstijn (Sieglinde), David Ward (Hunding), Rita Gorr (Fricka)

London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf

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…an exciting, eloquent, lyrical, an always vital account of the opera and draws splendid playing, of which the conductor must have been proud, and we should be, from the London Symphony Orchestra,...

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Possibly the most thrilling, sexually-charged Walküre ever recorded, this recording, features the sappy voices of Gré Brouwenstijn and Jon Vickers as Sieglinde and Siegmund, and two of the leading Wagnerians of their day – Nilsson and London – as Brünnhilde and Wotan. Also look out for the wind machine introduced in the Prelude to Act I! This is real aural theatre.

  • Release date: 11th Mar 2013
  • Label: Eloquence
  • Catalogue number: ELQ4807085
  • Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1
Work length1:00:29
Orchestervorspiel
Track length3:22
"Wes Herd dies auch sei...Kühlende Labung gab mir"
Track length11:48
"Müd am Herd fand ich den Mann"
Track length4:25
"Friedmund darf ich nicht heißen...Aus dem Wald trieb"
Track length9:27
"Ich weiß ein wildes Geschlecht"
Track length4:54
"Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater"
Track length5:24
"Schläfst du, Gast?"
Track length1:01
"Der Männer Sippe saß hier im Saal"
Track length5:32
"Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond"
Track length2:55
"Du bist der Lenz"
Track length7:38
"War Wälse dein Vater"
Track length0:20
"Siegmund heiß ich und Siegmund bin ich"
Track length3:43
Wagner: Die Walkure: Act 2
Work length1:27:30
Vorspiel
Track length1:59
"Nun zäume dein Ross, reisige Maid"
Track length1:09
"Dir rat' ich, Vater, rüste dich selbst"
Track length1:38
"Der alte Sturm, die alte Müh'"
Track length4:15
"So ist es denn aus mit den ewigen Göttern"
Track length5:15
"In wildem Leiden erwuchs er such selbst"
Track length3:10
"Was verlangst du?"
Track length4:47
"Schlimm, fürcht ich, schloß der Streit"
Track length1:02
"O heilige Schmach!...Laß ich's verlauten"
Track length3:52
"Als junger Liebe Lust mir verblich...Ein anr'res ist's"
Track length15:44
"O sag, künde, was soll nun dein Kind?...So sah ich"
Track length6:37
"Raste nun hier; gönne dir Ruh!"
Track length9:53
"Siegmund! Sieh auf mich!...Du sahest der Walküre sehren"
Track length18:59
"Zauberfest bezähmt ein Schlaf"
Track length3:27
"Kehrte der Vater nur heim"
Track length0:57
"Wehwalt! Wehwalt!"
Track length2:53
"Geh' hin, Knecht! Kniee vor Fricka"
Track length1:53
Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 3
Work length1:07:57
"Hojotoho! Heiaha!"
Track length7:03
"Nach dem Tann lenkt sie das taumelnde Ross"
Track length1:10
"Schützt mich und helft in höchster Not"
Track length3:21
"Nicht sehre dich Sorge um mich"
Track length2:06
"So fliehe denn eilig und fliehe allein!"
Track length3:01
"Steh' Brünnhilde! Wo ist Brünnhild'?"
Track length4:33
"Hier bin ich, Vater"
Track length8:53
"War es so schmählich?"
Track length4:25
"Als Fricka den eignen Sinn dir entfremdet"
Track length5:39
"So tatest du, was so gern zu tun ich begehrt"
Track length3:43
"Wohl taugte dir nicht...Deinen leichten Sinn"
Track length4:02
"Und das ich ihm in Stücken schlug!"
Track length3:49
"Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind"
Track length2:51
"Der Augen leuchtendes Paar"
Track length8:48
"Loge, hör! Lausche hieher!"
Track length4:33

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…an exciting, eloquent, lyrical, an always vital account of the opera and draws splendid playing, of which the conductor must have been proud, and we should be, from the London Symphony Orchestra, all departments of which distinguish themselves. … Gré Brouwenstijn gives a most musicianly, youthful sounding and touching rendering of Sieglinde … Nilsson is glorious here, but one hardly needs to praise the greatest exponent of her part today … This wonderful Brünnhilde has worthy partners in George London’s Wotan and Jon Vickers’s Siegmund

March 2015

If you don't mind the odd sound effect (mainly a bit of added thunder here and there), then I recommend this propulsive, driven account conducted by Erich Leinsdorf (the opening storm is ferocious stuff). Gré Brouwenstijn and Jon Vickers are wonderful as the doomed twins, with both of them treating us to some incredibly ravishing singing in Act One.
James Longstaffe
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