Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Das Rheingold
Rolf Polke (Wotan), Ruth Hesse (Fricka), Fritz Uhl (Loge), Herold Kraus (Mime), Rolf Kühne (Alberich), Heidemaria Ferch (Freia), Herbert Doussant (Froh), Rudolf Knoll (Donner), Ursula Böse (Erda), Otto von Rohr (Fasolt), Takao Okamura (Fafner), Liselotte Becker-Egner...
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Das Rheingold
Rolf Polke (Wotan), Ruth Hesse (Fricka), Fritz Uhl (Loge), Herold Kraus (Mime), Rolf Kühne (Alberich), Heidemaria Ferch (Freia), Herbert Doussant (Froh), Rudolf Knoll (Donner), Ursula Böse (Erda), Otto von Rohr (Fasolt), Takao Okamura (Fafner), Liselotte Becker-Egner...
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About
Known as widely for his teaching as for his orchestral direction, Hans Swarowsky has much to share with a younger generation of musicians. He studied composition and conducting with several of the twentieth century's greatest icons, absorbing and exercising what he had learned in a respected career as a conductor. Through his many years of conducting he managed to record many works by different composers but perhaps one of his most significant would be Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nibelungen during the occupation of Czechoslovakia making the recording very difficult to rehears for because of musicians trying to return home whenever the borders were declared open. However, despite an uneven cast, his historic recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, taped in Prague, has considerable power and poetry.
Artists
Das Rheingold
Rolf Polke (Wotan), Ruth Hesse (Fricka), Fritz Uhl (Loge), Herold Kraus (Mime), Rolf Kühne (Alberich), Heidemaria Ferch (Freia), Herbert Doussant (Froh), Rudolf Knoll (Donner), Ursula Böse (Erda), Otto von Rohr (Fasolt), Takao Okamura (Fafner), Liselotte Becker-Egner (Woglinde), Angelika Berger (Wellgunde), Hilde Roser (Flosshilde)
Die Walkure
Gerald McKee (Siegmund), Ditha Sommer (Sieglinde), Nadézda Kniplová (Brünnhilde), Otto von Rohr (Hunding), Heidemaria Ferch (Gerhilde), Bella Jasper (Helmwige), Liselotte Becker-Egner (Ortlinde), Angelika Berger (Waltraute), Ingrid Goeritz (Siegrune), Margit Kobeck-Peters (Grimgerde), Erika Schubert (Rossweise), Hilde Roser (Schwertleite)
Siegfried
Gerald McKee (Siegfried), Rolf Polke (Wanderer), Bella Jasper (Waldvogel)
Götterdämmerung
Otto von Rohr (Hagen), Rudolf Knoll (Gunther), Ditha Sommer (Gutrune), Ruth Hesse (Waltraute), Bella Jasper (Woglinde), Liselotte Becker-Egner (Wellgunde), Erika Schubert (Flosshilde), Ingrid Goeritz (Erste Norn), Margit Kobeck-Peters (Zweite Norn), Siw Ericsdotter (Dritte Norn)
Großes Symphonieorchester With members of the Czech Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre, Hanz Swarowsky
Contents and tracklist
- Ursula Boese (contralto), Liselotte Becker-Egner (soprano), Angelika Berger (soprano), Hilde Rosner (mezzo-soprano), Rolf Kühne (bass), Ruth Hesse (mezzo-soprano), Rolf Polke (bass-baritone), Heidemaria Ferch (soprano), Otto von Rohr (bass), Takao Okamura (bass), Herbert Doussant (tenor), Rudolf Knoll (baritone), Fritz Uhl (tenor), Herold Kraus (tenor)
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague National Theatre Orchestra
- Hans Swarowsky
- Recorded: 26-28 July, 3, 12 August 1968
- Naděžda Kniplová (soprano), Heidemaria Ferch (soprano), Rolf Polke (bass-baritone), Liselotte Becker-Egner (soprano), Ruth Hesse (mezzo-soprano), Angelika Berger (soprano), Margit Kobeck (alto), Gerald McKee (tenor), Bella Jasper (soprano), Ditha Sommer (soprano), Otto von Rohr (bass), Hilde Roser (mezzo-soprano), Erica Schubert (mezzo-soprano), Ingrid Goritz (mezzo-soprano)
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague National Theatre Orchestra
- Hans Swarowsky
- Recorded: 3, 6, 8-12 August 1968
- Rolf Kühne (bass), Bella Jasper (soprano), Naděžda Kniplová (soprano), Takao Okamura (bass), Ursula Boese (contralto), Herold Kraus (tenor), Gerald McKee (tenor), Rolf Polke (bass-baritone)
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague National Theatre Orchestra
- Hans Swarowsky
- Recorded: 29-31 July, 1, 14, 15 August 1968
- Ruth Hesse (mezzo-soprano), Rolf Kühne (bass), Ingrid Goritz (mezzo-soprano), Bella Jasper (soprano), Margit Kobeck (alto), Liselotte Becker-Egner (soprano), Siw Ericsdotter (mezzo-soprano), Erica Schubert (mezzo-soprano), Naděžda Kniplová (soprano), Gerald McKee (tenor), Rudolf Knoll (baritone), Otto von Rohr (bass), Ditha Sommer (soprano)
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague National Theatre Orchestra
- Hans Swarowsky
- Recorded: 3, 5, 6, 15-17, 19 August 1968